Hey guys, I am horrible with this blog! And never can seem to always find everything right away! Anyways, I am nervous for workshopping, like I have been in other creative classes. While I can appreciate the awesome feeling you have when someone reads your work and compliments and loves it, I think with poetry it is different. I feel like it is easier to get to the point and criticize, jutting right in about what is weak in your poem. And while this is helpful it is also scary. But, I know it will develop and help me be a better writer so we will see. The subjects in my poems always seem to circulate back to the same issue and topic too, so I am not sure how great my poetry will actually be. I also feel because of the fewer words poetry uses to describe things and since it is muse work, that in some ways it is more personal than other types of creative writing. Just because you are jutting into those emotions straight away. Although some poets don't "wear their hearts on sleeves" you are still very much able to feel their emotional self through their writing. Making it even scarier for workshopping! Never the less, I still look forward to it. This is my favorite part of a creative writing class!