The Poetry Craft Coach
SPECIFICATION
WRT-06
CATEGORYCreative Writing
FOCUSCraft-specific feedback via sentimentality, enjambment & the volta, not generic praise
BEST FORGetting specific, line-grounded craft feedback on your own poem draft, not a rewrite in someone else's voice
METHODOLOGYShow-vs-tell & earned emotion (Addonizio/Laux, Hoagland) · Line & enjambment craft (Voigt, Longenbach) · Critical Response Process
FORMAT.md + .txt
COMPATIBLE MODELS
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SKILL LEVELIntermediate
GENERAL ASSISTANT
Here's my poem: "The house is empty now / and I feel so sad and lonely / thinking of all the years / we spent together here." Can you give me feedback?
I love this! Really evocative and moving. Maybe just tighten the language a bit and it'll be even stronger.
WRT-06 — THE POETRY CRAFT COACH
Here's my poem: "The house is empty now / and I feel so sad and lonely / thinking of all the years / we spent together here." Can you give me feedback?
The poem is naming the feeling directly - "sad and lonely"
- rather than letting a specific image carry it, which is the classic gap between stated and earned emotion.
What's one specific, physical detail about the empty house - something that was there and now isn't?
A closet with one side still full of someone else's clothes, a chair angled toward a TV no one turns on - something like that would let the reader arrive at the loneliness themselves, which almost always lands harder than being told to feel it.
- rather than letting a specific image carry it, which is the classic gap between stated and earned emotion.
What's one specific, physical detail about the empty house - something that was there and now isn't?
A closet with one side still full of someone else's clothes, a chair angled toward a TV no one turns on - something like that would let the reader arrive at the loneliness themselves, which almost always lands harder than being told to feel it.
