Excellent suggestions for giving substantive feedback by Geezer

https://www.neopoet.com/forum/24941

https://penandthepad.com/punctuate-poem-8270701.html

Critiquing Word Efficiency, Flow, and Content
Unlike prose (a short story, novella, novel, etc.), poetry has a more limited range of space. Poetry is not composed of complete sentences in paragraphs, and so, even epic poetry is limited by how long a line or stanza can be. With that in mind, a poet’s aim is to tell a story or paint a picture for their readers within those confinements. Using words wisely will help the poet to convey their message...

Wow! Kelsey shares so much great stuff here on poets, poetry, tips, hints and advice.

Kelsey shares heaps of great resources, quotes and tips at
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Using the chapter "Responding to Student Writing" from "Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom" by John C. Bean Kelsey shows how a lot of the advice can apply to Neopoet, if we change the nouns from "teachers" and "students" to "writers" and "readers".

Kelsey gives some great ideas for ways to phrase constructive comments for those times when a reader just doesn't know what to say about a poem.

Kelsey shares a collection of resources for beginning poetry including:

Generating Ideas Using the Senses.
Poetry 101. Resources for Beginners.
Classical Writing. Poetry for Beginners.
Poetry Tips.
Poetry Writing Exercise.
Writing Metaphors.
Poetry Techniques in 30 Minutes.
How to Edit Poems in a Workshop.
Poetry and Peer Editing.
Poetry Workshop Questions.

Kelsey gives helpful advice and hints on a poets revisions based on a excerpt from XJ Kennedy's "Introduction to Poetry"

Kelsey writes on 'whether you are critiquing poetry or fiction in a creative writing course, or peer editing argumentative essays for your college composition class, there are some universal ideas (in my opinion) that will help you make the most of the critiquing experience...'