Description:

Workshop for beginners. Here new poets and those just beginning to learn poetry can interact with each other and receive light feedback and ideas from each other and from the Moderators/Leaders. Main purpose of workshop is to help the attendees improve their own poetry and helping them with offering critique.

Eddie (Eduardo Cruz) (Leader)
Louise (lou) (moderator)
Barbara (Barbara Writes) (Moderator)
Peter (whitescatter) (Moderator)
Stan (scribbler) (Co-Leader)

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WORKSHOP - Critique Skills:

Workshop commences - 16 May 2011.

To apply you must Private Message: Eddie Cruz

Once you're accepted, you are required to attend, although please let me know if there are exceptional circumstances that prevent you from attending. If there is a problem with computer time, please contact: Eddie Cruz or Hooded Stranger (Dan)

If the workshop is full for those 14 days your name will be held for the next workshop
You will be contacted by Eddie Cruz or by one of the moderators when the next workshop begins.
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Workshop Description:
To learn the process on how to critique poetry for beginners.
Skills to be learned:
Content
Style; Freeform, Western classic, and Haiku’s
Recognizing if logic is carried through the poem.
Spelling and grammar in critiques will be subject to correction.

Participants: not more than 10
All participants must enter a rough draft poem.
One poem at a time will be critiqued and we will move to the next poem, once we are satisfied with the results or while we wait on an edit.
Participants must write a critique, to the best of their knowledge and skill and explain why the poem works or not, and explain what it is they see in the poem or what they would like to see.
The writer of the poem will have a chance to explain why it was written that way. This is not a debate workshop, it’s a learning workshop so please no personal attacks. You must adhere to Neopoet regulations.
Please keep in mind we only have 14 days. Hopefully we will get to cover all 10 poems. The idea is to learn how to look at a poem and to offer constructive critique.