Workshop

Like many of those who have already written I too would like to say that I enjoyed the workshop process on Tuesday. It was a new experience to have multiple individuals critique something that I had written. I was just as interested in hearing the more negative feedback and questions as I was the positive ones. I am excited to workshop everyones second poem and to receive feedback on my second poem. I believe that hearing other peoples interpretations of my poem really helped me to think like the reader and when I read over drafts of future poems I will try to look at them this way and think about what the reader will take away from the poem and not just about what sounds good to me or what is meaningful to me, although these will remain important.
I would also like to mention the prose poem that we were to read for tomorrow which was titles "The Taxi". I found this poem to be so imaginative and instead of really thinking about what deeper meaning there could be I just read the poem over just because I enjoyed the sound of it and the imagery that it produced. The image of the car in reverse and the wall rebuilding and then breaking again was so vivid. I am looking forward to hearing more about this poem.