I'm always a little hot/cold when to comes to workshoping. Especially with poetry. With prose, its much easier to quanitify things, where as in poetry - things don't have to always make sense (sometimes it is even better when its a little crazy). In prose, you can look for plot, characters, characterizing, and others things that don't have to be in poetry, or at least don't have to be well defined. So there is always a technical roadblock to critiquing poetry over other forms of writing. But probably more than that, is that while I love for people to critique my work, I am always a little wary of critiquing other poets work. I love it when people really tackle my work and tear it apart, because even if I don't use their suggestions, it always helps in one way or another, if only to give me another point of view to revise from. No, my real problem is reviewing other poets. I'm always a little uncomfortable deconstucting other people's poetry and putting a critical eye on it. I shy a bit becase I don't want to hurt feelings (not that I am a big jerk about it or anything - i don't attack people - its just hard to guage how open people are to it) or even worse - discourage people from writing more. So i admit that my workshopping skills are suspect at time. But like I said in one of the other blog posts, once we get comfortable with each other, the workshop really probably get rolling. Tomorrow should be interesting!