Chris, I know what you mean. Granted, I am in advanced fiction, advanced nonfiction, and have taken up to immediate screenwriting, so I am used to workshop, and this class follows it pretty well like other classes. But I agree that it's not exactly as I thought. I love reading poetry from everyone, but I find critiquing to be the hardest part. I never know what to say, and I feel embarrassed commenting on everyone's poetry. But so far, I like it. I've liked most everyone's poetry in our class. We have a lot of diversity in both content and style. I just wish we had a little more time to talk about each poem. But, I guess for the time we have, a lot is said and suggested. I only wish that Professor McCoy gave us an edited critique, explaining how he believes we should revise it, that would be really helpful.