POETREE

It is a really common misconception that literature for children is somehow lower quality and less serious. It can be, but some of it is truly great and deserves recognition as such. It really annoys me when people make baseless assumptions like that -- and you've just seen how I respond, backing up the quality with specific examples. Used to piss off my teachers in class, but then most of them were giving horrid advice generally, so I got into the habit of stabbing over-inflated claims with pointy facts.

I think one reason that poetry has escaped to the internet is because this is a place where you can write fanfic, download porn, and nobody cares. You can share poetry, whatever kind you want to write and read, without some academic asshole getting in your face about it -- or if they do, you can use your services troll-booting features to make them go away. Nobody has to pretend to like stuff they don't, or not like stuff they do, on the internet. So whatever kind of poetry you're into is fine. If you want to analyze Dr. Seuss or retranslate Rumi, that's all cool. I love that about this venue. It removes the bottleneck, smashes the bottle, and uses the pieces to make beachglass jewelry.