Workshop expectations

[justcloudy]

There are a lot of poems that should be discarded in their entirety, and I've written my fair share.  I could link to examples of poems that should not exist, if you are interested.

I'd agree with this, but I think a lot of those worth discarding are "poems" not poems. I have notebooks and notebooks filled with those from my teen years. I hang onto them for nostalgia's sake, but with full recognition that the vast majority have nothing to do with real poetry.

I'm far from being an expert on anything poetry, but I do know how what I read comes across to me. So that's why my comments entail, and that's all I can expect from others.