Kurt Malkames (Week of March 1-7)

Enjoying workshopping week so far. I think getting feedback from my peers is improving my writing and its also fun to do. I was happy with how my poems turned out this week – for three of my poems I decided to revise my first assignment and I think the result was a good one. I noticed some areas that really needed attention and clarification. Also, it was interesting to try to incorporate some of the techniques we learned in class retrospectively. It was pretty difficult to try to make my line breaks fluid after the fact. Making the imagery more vivid and the tension a bit more realistic was also a challenge. I found that since my main goal with the initial poem was to describe something – giving it tension as well was really only trying to strain something that wasn’t necessary. For my other poem I went with a spinoff of the visual stuff we did in class with the magazines – and I think it turned out pretty well. It seemed like the copies most people got for my poems in workshop didn’t print in color but that wasn’t a big deal. My other poem was an opinion on overdramatic poets, which I also think turned out to be a somewhat effective poem.