Final Blog Post of the Year - Kurt Malkames

So we have finally reached the last week of the school year. Kind of strange to be talking about summer when there is snow outside – but I guess that is just Canton, NY. Overall I have to say I really enjoyed this class. My writing has definitely improved and I began to enjoy something I never thought possible. This last week has been great so far with more workshopping and I think that all of the poems that people presented this week have been very high quality. Looking forward to the chapbook and Ars Poetica, I think this will be an interesting assignment. Revising my work will be harder than it seems. To really edit it well will take some time – and some of the poems may even have to be restructured. In terms of the class as a whole I would give it very high marks and recommend it to a friend without reservation. The poems that were assigned were very useful as models for what the assignment was for that week. Despite the fact that there were no formal exams I believe I was able to learn more in this class than some of my others this semester – which had weekly quizzes and exams every three weeks. Poetry is a skill that I hope to keep for the rest of my life – weather it is something I do seriously or not I don’t know, but I think it is a fun thing to practice every now and then.