First Blog Entry: To be completed before class Tuesday, Sept. 1

Length: at least 450 words

• Here you are on our class blog. Log in to contribute. If it doesn’t want to let you post to the blog, email me and remind me to add you as a contributor!

• Make your first blog entry. In that entry, please spend at least 450 words answering the following questions:
• What are you studying, and why do you like it?
• Where are you from, and what’s it like there?
• Aside from writing, what are your interests and hobbies?
• Have you had good or bad experiences getting feedback on your work? What were they?
• Who are your influences? Name some poets, living or dead, whose work you admire (and try to articulate what you admire about them). A poet you detest can also be an influence--if you can articulate how you want to write differently from him.
• What’s good about good poetry?
• What do you hope to learn in this class? (Don’t be lame and say, “I want to learn to write better poems.” Be more specific than that.)

• Don't forget that you also need to bring a written response to the workshop checklist to class Tuesday--we'll be running a practice workshop on Sylvia Plath's "The Arrival of the Bee Box."