So, this week we got into workshops and the like, which I am both excited and apprehensive for. It'll be great to get feedback on one's own work, but I fear I may have trouble with the whole, keeping your mouth shut, part. Although it makes sense, like it was said in class: You won't always be there to defend your work. So I might as well learn to keep quiet now.
One of the poems we read, although I can't recall the name, was a great example of workshop in motion. We got to pick parts away and there was even some disagreement on the use of the Spanish words in the poem (and how there seemed to be so much of them). Someone brought up that it is the person's right to include their culture in their poetry, and they are right to a point. However, how far does it go before there person is trying to target one audience over another? A lot of people are turned off when they have to look up a lot of words in order to picture certain things. It may be the writer's work, but as far as I can tell, we've been trying to help the reader understand, not ourselves. After all, the reader is who we want to read and enjoy the poem.
The presentations we are about to give leave me nervous-maybe that I will do something wrong, which I hope won't be the case. I was lucky in that my journal had online journals, saving me from having to pick again. And they have a lot, by the looks of it, so choosing one might be hard. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
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