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Posted by Shauna Clair

I've read many posts from everybody else on the blog and I noticed how mostly everyone said after doing workshop they weren't as nervous as they thought they were going to be when it came to sharing poems. For me, after workshop I still hate sharing poems that I write. I'm not sure why I disliked it so much because my poems weren't even too personal or anything but every time I shared my poems I was so nervous. Even after I read my poem out loud I just wanted to move on to the next person presenting. I understand the point of workshop and the criticism everyone gave me did really help when it came to revising my poems, but I still did not like reading my poems in class and I don't know if I ever will like sharing my poems. The suggestions I received on my poems were helpful and I think everyone in class really tried to help each other out. I also really enjoyed hearing all the other poems that students wrote and I think this even helped me to notice things i should change in my poems. This aspect of workshop was really helpful and I have learned a lot throughout this experience. It was also interesting to see how each person gave poems their own personal twist even though we all were assigned to do the same muse writes throughout the semester. This was really cool because every poem that was shared was really unique and has the potential to be amazing with revisions.

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1 comments

I completely agree about being nervous to share the poems in workshop. I hated reading my poems out loud and it always made me super nervous, but like you I too gained a lot of knowledge from the exercise.

April 30, 2012 at 2:51 PM

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