Workshop post

I really enjoyed workshop over the course of this semester I found it very helpful with my revisions for my poems. I really find it hard to write a poem then go back and revise it on my own. Also I am not brave enough to show it to my friends and ask their opinion and I am not sure if they would even be able to criticize it or give me good feedback. Workshop really works well because we all have some knowledge of poetry and we are all have to write so it is a lot easier to get actual feedback that can really improve your poems. Also it has helped me with feeling comfortable showing my poetry to other people. Not for revision purposes but ones that I am proud of. For example I showed one of the love poems I wrote to my girlfriend and she really liked it. Not like she had a choice but I thought she genuinely liked it. Another thing about workshop that I enjoyed is hearing other people's ideas and how they are writing poetry. I kinda got some good ideas about writing by listening to their poems and seeing what generally works and what doesn't. Lastly the thing that I always think about now is what my stake in a poem really is. I find that it helps me narrow down where I am trying to take my poetry and the message I am trying to portray. I am actually really sad that workshop was only 3 rounds long. I really think that it should be longer because I had a lot of fun doing it.