Describe your worst experience with another poet...

Not at the Cove, of course, you're all lovely.

But there's no denying that some poetry communities and slam poetry events can attract some rather pretentious people, especially those with a superiority complex. Have you ever encountered anyone like this? What happened? How did you deal with it?

There was a time I definitely felt like I was getting scolded or spoken to like a child, which didn't sit well with me. No other person in this class spoke to me the same way, and I'm pretty self-aware so something was probably up with him. He was talking about his poem once and used a word I hadn't heard before, so I asked him what that meant and he made me feel like the biggest idiot. He even did that thing where he side-eyed everyone else in the room with a bewildered smirk on his face and said 'um... you don't know what [word] means?' No, Bobby. I can't know everything.

That was my experience, now share yours!