Is there a place to publish my poetry to get some honest feedback/ratings?

There are numerous websites and online communities letting you publish poetry and rankings. You may prefer moontowncafe.com, gotpoetry.com, creative-poems.com, and your-poetry.com for publishing your poetry.

If I were you, I'd try submitting some of my works to eliteskills.com/ EliteSkills.com. This is a website that has forums and a great community that will help you with your writing. You can post your works on your profile and people will give you comments that will tell you what they like and what could use work.

People are encouraged to comment and give constructive criticism by the incentive of being able to post more. There is a limit as to how many of your poems or short stories you can upload until you comment on a certain amount of other members' work. This really creates a great community of writers helping each other and in turn, helping themselves.

I think you'll find a lot of good feedback here, and it's always a fun place to hang out and meet people with the same interests as you. Hope this helps!

The best way to do this is with a critique group. These can be on line but if you ever want to publish your work it may be better to work in a small offline group so that your work is not distributed on line. I found a great article about finding a grouphttp://underdown.org/mf-critique-groups.htm If you can't find one perhaps you could make one.

Note these are geared towards children's writing but the advice seems universal.

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