Monthly Archives: May, 2008
Gilead
I’m a little unhappy with the only poem I have for workshop this week– I’m thinking about going over to the museum Friday morning and trying to recharge enough to get something else down on paper, even if I don’t get everyone’s comments in time. But I have been doing a lot of good reading …
Exhilaration
New twist: the museum where we have been running our workshop is having a little catered shindig to mark the end of the exhibit, and we poets are going to be reading from our work! This will be my first time reading my poetry in front of an audience, or really, in front of anyone. …
Good Decisions
Workshop on Saturday was again good- I think we are becoming more comfortable with each other, more able to recognize a voice or pattern, more able to offer truly helpful and constructive criticism. Some of us have even been sending out revised drafts of workshopped poems and asking for more feedback, which certainly implies a …
More Workshop Talk
I finished my poem for this week’s workshop and am going to send it to my fellow poets tonight, so they can read and comment for Saturday. This one I struggled with a bit– I began three different poems, finished one, left one in draft form for the moment, and then did several different drafts …
Pepper
Today was our first workshop day– all of us had emailed copies of our poems to the group, commented on them, and then brought those copies and comments to the group today. We read our poems out loud, then heard comments, then had a minute or so to add or answer, then onto the next …
Art and Inspiration
In my quest to work hard on myself as a poet (one of my goals for this year), since it’s the area where I have the least formal training, I signed up for a four-session workshop on ekphrastic poetry. Ekphrasis is an approach that I have found intriguing for the past few years, and this …
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