On Monday we'll start workshopping the poems you wrote in response to Project #1 and I imagine that we will be able to very easily get through three poems a day, so that round should only last the week. Here's how we'll conduct each workshop round over the rest of the semester:
- By our class meeting on the project deadline day (usually one class before the start of the round) you should e-mail your poem and/or any other supporting materials (MP3s, links, etc.) to the rest of the class in one e-mail message (creating an alias with all nine addresses will help) with a subject line like this: Project X / Your Last Name. If you haven't yet added your address to the thread on Facebook please do so immediately.
- A workshop schedule will be posted in advance of each round. For the first round I've used a list randomizer to generate slots and if there are no issues we can continue doing this for every round.
- Prior to each class you should e-mail your written comments to both the poets being workshopped and me (one e-mail per poet) — I'm doing this to ensure that everyone is getting substantive and constructive feedback, basically that everyone is doing their job.
- At the start of each workshop session I'll set a timer (probably for 12 minutes per person) so that we keep on schedule. Typically the poet being workshopped is not allowed to talk or ask questions until after her peers have spoken but we'll reserve time for dialogue at the end of each session.
- You're more than welcome to send follow-up comments to your peers after we've workshopped their poems.
If you have any questions about this, let me know. I imagine we'll get into the swing of things pretty quickly.
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