This workshop is a place to meet to share poems for serious yet respectful critique. For this reason, I suggest that you be ready for any and all comment on a piece you post, as there may be something more for you to consider than simply, "Oh, how great that is." But I stress that positive, constructive, respectful critique must be maintained at all times.

Also, remember that the poet has the last say on how the poem will be drafted. Another suggestion is to take all comments into due consideration, wait a couple of days, then look at your poem again to decide which comments you might want to incorporate into your revision. But poetry is SUBJECTIVE!!! So the poet has to make the determinations as to what will be best for the poem and its intention after weighing all considerations.

You will find a list of previous exercises given to the group in a table in the Database accessed by clicking on the link in the left side of the screen. Feel free to try them out and post if you like for comment and feedback. Or just try them for your own amusement.

We are a positive group of talented poets at different stages of development but all with joy in the Word and caring enough to help each other grow in our own poetic voices. In other words, strength in our poetic community and that is how we, in turn, affect the world positively.

Thank you for joining us and adding to the positive vibration.

Georgia A. Popoff
Workshop Moderator
angel_light@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~angel_light