07-10-2016, 07:01 AM
I stumbled on this quote today, perfect for our conversation:
"Donald Hall and I have been sending poems back and forth twice a week for forty years... My generation did a lot with letters. Galway Kinnell and Louis Simpson and Don and I and James Wright would often send five- and six-page letters commenting on and arguing with each other's poems. I'm amazed we had the time for that... The gist of it is that no one writes alone: One needs a community."
~Robert Bly
What's the difference between a workshop and what we do here with critique forums?
"Donald Hall and I have been sending poems back and forth twice a week for forty years... My generation did a lot with letters. Galway Kinnell and Louis Simpson and Don and I and James Wright would often send five- and six-page letters commenting on and arguing with each other's poems. I'm amazed we had the time for that... The gist of it is that no one writes alone: One needs a community."
~Robert Bly
What's the difference between a workshop and what we do here with critique forums?