Today I returned last Thursday's poems. Don't be discouraged. You are learning something new. You have fantastic ideas and you are seeking the best way to express those ideas.
If you are getting 7.5 or 8, you are close, close, close. If not, please use the editing sheets we have (three different ways to edit) and read a lot of poetry. Read the criteria. Read The Claremont Review and other literary magazines. Ask Jay Ruzesky for his view of your poem, etc.
We shared the workshop poems today. If you were absent, hand the poems to your partners. In future, email the poems to your partners in the event of an absence or get someone to drop them off to me and I can distribute them.
Be sure to look up Lorna Crozier and her work on-line. Find her sex lives of vegetable poems to inspire you to use appropriate detail and your imagination.
We did three poetry exercises today. If you were absent today, get the prompts from a friend and complete all three exercises during our computer lab time tomorrow.
Meet in the lab tomorrow.
Friday-two poems due.
Jay Ruzesky will read to us on Friday. Bring your questions to class. I'll introduce his work to the class on Thursday. I did read his poem, "Hope" to the class last week.
Monday: Jay Ruzesky response is due.
