A NOTICE FOR GUESTS OF WILD POETRY FORUM

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Wild Poetry Forum (WPF), unlike many writing forums on the internet, is a small, close-knit community for poets over the age of 21. We limit the size of our community because we wish to establish personal relationships with our members in order to provide targeted and valuable feedback and writing assistance.


INFORMATION REGARDING WPF REGISTRATION

Our registration function is open on a limited basis. If you do NOT see a Registration Link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, this absence of a registration function indicates that we are NOT currently accepting new memberships.

The registration function will be open periodically. The opening of registration is normally conducted during the first week of any month in which we are actively seeking new membership applications. Since we do not open registration every month, we recommend that you visit Wild Poetry Forum during the first week of every month to check if registration is open. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to notify those interested in membership of open registration periods.

Registration includes completing a brief questionnaire as well as submitting two samples of your work. Submitting an application is not a guarantee of acceptance. Often during open registration periods, we have many more applications than we can comfortably accommodate. Acceptance usually depends on a combination of first come, first served, and our assessment of whether your application indicates that you would be a good fit for our community. Incomplete applications and those with inappropriate responses (flippant, frivolous, sarcastic, surreal, hostile, obscene, etc.) are automatically rejected. Please take our application process seriously. We do.

You can write to us at adminwpf@wildpoetryforum.com with requests for more information. Also, if you have been recommended to join our forum by a current member of WPF, please write to us indicating that, and noting the name of the member who provided this recommendation.


WILD POETRY FORUM'S COMPLETE LISTING OF FORUMS (PUBLIC & PRIVATE)

We have recently changed from an entirely open forum, to a small, more intimate group. Therefore, many WPF forums that were once visible to the public are no longer viewable by those without memberships. The forums you can view as a non-member or guest are few. There are many more forums than you can currently see available to WPF members.

For more complete discussion regarding all the forums and features available to members of WPF, please read our WPF FAQs.

For further information on WPF's critiquing process, please read our WPF Critiquing Guidelines.


PUBLIC FORUMS -- viewable by both WPF Members and Non-Members/Guests

Intuitive Healing
~This forum is for the testing of WPF formatting functions.

Primordial Sound
~This forum is for member announcements regarding personal websites, publication notifications, etc.

Hypnotic Suggestions
~This forum is for information & updates concerning WPF operations.

IBPC
~This forum is for the announcement of the monthly Interboard Poetry Competition (IBPC) results.

Link to WPF BookShop
~This forum contains a link to the WPF BookShop with listings of recommended poetry & writing texts.


PRIVATE FORUMS -- viewable only by WPF Members

Essential Oils
~This forum is for questions and general discussions.

Creative Visualization
~This is the Main poetry posting forum at WPF. The levels of critique given in this forum are Commentary Only, Light Critique, and Heavy Critique.

Balancing Qi
~This forum is for community involvement efforts.

Asanas
~This forum is for the posting of epic poems (80 lines or longer), short stories, and excerpts from longer pieces of fiction or non-fiction.

Therapeutic Touch
~This forum is for the posting of work with Adult Content.

Nominations for IBPC Submission
~This forum is for the posting of nominations by members for submissions into the IBPC (InterBoard Poetry Competition) from WPF.

Hall of Fame
~This forum is for the posting of announcements by Adminstration of Poem of the Week/Honorable Mention each week.

WPF Weekly Creativity Challenge
~This forum is for the posting of weekly Creativity Challenges, which are prompts for writing poems that adhere to specific guidelines.

Electromagnetism
~This forum is an archive of past work posted at WFP by former/current members.

Naturopathy
~This forum is a library of a wide variety of discussions on many topics, both poetry-related and general, posted by former/current WPF members.



Thank you for your interest in Wild Poetry Forum, and for your attention to this notice.

All the Best,
WPF Administration