Tuesday's Workshop

I absolutely agree with everyone else that the workshop is a very productive tool. I personally found it very interesting in reading other classmates poems and seeing what techniques they had to offer. I also thought it was very cool to see what other people thought about every ones' poems. For me, I felt that this workshop made things much clearer in terms of making sense and finding the actual meaning of the poems, especially since you can talk to the author at hand and discuss why they did things in a certain way. This activity I also felt was extremely helpful to me as poet because it allows me to see how people are interpreting what I am saying. This is important because I found that sometimes that I am not always communicating what I want to say to the reader through the poem. Another idea that I liked in the workshop was having everyone read their poem, it really just help present the tone and pace that the author meant the poem to be in. Looking at some of the other blogs I noticed that many people feel that there really cannot be a bad poem. I have to agree with this because no matter what the author is always going to like the poem. So I figure if at least 1 person likes it then most likely others will like it as well. So I agree with everyone else in saying that there cannot be a bad poem.