In all, I can sincerely say I appreciate the workshop process. The feedback from my classmates often allowed me to take my poems to the level I wanted them to go. At firs it is nerve-racking because if anybody is like me, putting your writing out there for others to see is a huge milestone. Usually I use my writing as an escape since I'm not too fond of expressing myself in general, so my poetry is usually raw and personal. My writing is almost like a baby.

Hearing people critique my work wasn't as bad as I thought, usually people understood where I was trying to go, and mostt of the time if there was something not everyone agreed with in my poetry, they always followed it up with something that they liked, or something they noticed within the poem that they felt I could enhance. However, as I listened to other people critique writing other than my own I sometimes people were reading too far into a poem that didn't necessarily have a deep message, it was just meant to be simple. I also felt that too often, people wanted the poet to spell everything out for them with concrete details,which can take away from the poem sometimes, and I felt like people don't know the difference between a poem that needs to be elaborated and poem that doesn't i.e. a poem that is meant to open the eyes of its audience.