Poetry workshop | Georgia A. Popoff

Complacency Is a Slow Death – Part 2

July 19, 2011 by Georgia

The workshop conversation regarding critique and how we may learn from each other, provide new lenses with which to observe our own work was such a prod to me that I chose to take a tact that I have done before: I distributed copies of one of my own poems that is particularly troubling me … Read more

Complacency Is a Slow Death

July 18, 2011 by Georgia

This summer, as I focus on teaching adults rather than classrooms of school kids, a conversation surfaced in the poetry workshop regarding critique and suggestions from one writer to another. One of the workshop participants took issue with another participant for the habit of offering rewrite suggestions. He felt that it was against protocol to … Read more