First Workshop

I definitely have to agree, the first workshop went very well. It was nice to finally hear from the poets what their thought process was behind their poem, as well as hear some nice feedback about my own poem. One thing that struck me as interesting was that there doesn't seem to be such a thing as "bad poetry." As Chelsea touched upon, it seemed like very few people were confident in their poems (including myself), but they all turned out great!
One thing I did not like about the workshop, however, was the typed up notes on everyone's poems. I understand that it's a nice way to give the writer feedback that they can remember, but I felt like our best discussions just came from simply throwing around ideas and thoughts we had on the poem. Not to mention the poet is capable of writing down little notes in the margin as we go. It was a lot more relaxed and things seemed to flow better when it was just discussion and not simply reading from a sheet.
Now that we all have seen how these workshops work, it should be exciting to see how number two goes and if we improve on the areas discussed.