Steemitschool Poetry Class - Recording and Notes- Critique Thursday Class #2 - 29/3/18

Yesterday's class of @d-pend's Steemitschool 100 Day Poetry Challenge has been the second "Critique Thursday" class. To follow is a recording of the class. It's only sound, but has been uploaded to Youtube due to it being the best available place to upload it.

Last week's class, which had a considerably longer "lecture" portion on what critique is, its different forms, and how and why to go about it can be found here.

Following are the episode notes. You can head over to the youtube page for clickable time-stamps as well.
(And I apologize that my volume is relatively considerably higher than others'. I didn't have enough time to set this up for the recording beforehand. Daniel's coming off especially low, again, my apologies and I'll try to improve on it for next week.)

At the 2:15 minute mark I speak of what should you critique. How critiquing non-poetry will get you better at critique, and critiquing poetry will get you better at writing poetry. I also speak of what sort of poetry you should critique, and why.
I then speak of how to write critique, why you may not want to publish it, and why you should, even so.

At the 6:50 mark I talk of how "explanations are not excuses," and how one should take feedback, and improve their pieces. Why you should take others' feedback exactly when you have an "explanation" for why it makes sense, if you're the only one who gets it.

And then we moved to critiquing specific poems:

At the 16:40 mark we go over our first poem, @acousticstevo's "Weekend Checklist".

38:35 brings us to the second poem, @liverussian's "Two Drops of the Same Water".

At the 1:01:45 mark we reach our third poem, @whack.science's "My Only Homeless Home".

At 1:25:50 we get to our final "properly" critiqued poem for the class, @hazem91's "Saviors of the World".

At 1:37:30, I've decided to go and do something new in this class, as we've gone over @d-pend's "Arboretum of Mirages", which I've critiqued at length before class. So we've read his poem, then my critique, then we talked about it and workshopped it during class, to show what an editing dialogue can look like.

Thanks to @d-pend for running the challenge, and to everyone who submitted their pieces for critique, or who was willing to offer critique to others. Also a special shout-out to @d-pend and @carmalain7 who read others' poems.

And I hope this will help everyone in the journey to becoming a better writer, and a better critic, in the non-negative sense of the word.

See you next week!

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Art and flair courtesy of @PegasusPhysics

The image used in the video has been made by @d-pend for the challenge and is used with permission.

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