Yesterday's class of @d-pend's Steemitschool 100 Day Poetry Challenge has been the fifth "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.
This week's class had no lecture portion, so let's dive straight into the video and the notes. You can head over to the episode's Youtube page for clickable time-stamps as well.
Oh yeah, I mention in the class, and just published a post giving an outline, a sort of rudimentary guide on how to critique poetry, so if you want to try your hand at it, give it a look!
At the 1:26 mark we go over our first poem, @carmalain7's "Lost Signals and Recalculating".
At 8:43. we take a small detour while still discussing Alain's piece, where @d-pend asks me for how to go about quickly digesting a piece, about understanding it as a whole, quickly.
26:09 brings us to the second poem, @tygertyger's "Mother," where we listened to her SoundCloud recording of it.
At 45:12 we take another small detour, as @nerdykim, who is new to class, is basically saying my critique is biased, that it is subjective. I answer that it is indeed, that all critique is subjective. @d-pend also weighs in on the topic, and on the fear of being wrong while giving critique.
I mention @lazarus-wist, whose poetry is consistently good to great, and deserves your time.
At the 59:46 mark we reach our third poem, @d-pend's "Basket of Braids".
At the 1:33:38 mark we get to our fourth poem, @hazem91's "Do we really want to grow."
1:56:10 brings us to the fifth and final poem for the class, @nerdykim's "Latent Siege".
Join Us! And Reminder on Critique Requirement:
Steemitschool Poetry hosts a daily lesson at UTC 5-7 PM at the Steemitschool Discord server, 5 days a week (Saturday and Sunday are off). Join the Discord server here. Thanks to Daniel @d-pend Pendergraft for organizing it!
The weekly Critique Thursday class takes place at the same time, in the same place, on Thursdays.
If you would like to get a piece critiqued, bring it over, but make sure it is under 250 words, as longer pieces take too much time. Do try to have someone go over grammatical issues before class though.
For future classes, people who wish to have a poem critiqued will have to leave a critique on another poem between Thursday 7 PM UTC after the class ends, and Wednesday Noon UTC the day before next class (7 PM UTC, April 12th, to Noon UTC, April 18th, for next class). Links to the critique left (must be in English, on a poem written in English) must be left as comments on this post, or DMed to me or Daniel on Discord, by Wednesday Noon UTC, so I could go over them before class.
(Note, poem doesn't have to be from someone participating in either the class or the challenge, nor does it have to be from the past week. No, you can't critique your own poems, and critique written before week does not count.)
Half-assed comments will not be accepted. If you've done your best, even if you are struggling, it is good enough.
If you have medical issues that hinder your ability to leave comments, please talk to me in private and we'll work it out.
Thanks to @liverussian, @tygertyger, @acousticsteveo, @nerdykim, and @d-pend for giving critique in yesterday's class! Thanks to @d-pend, @hazem91, @liverussian, @nerdykim, @tygertyger, and @girlbefore who took the time to leave critique comments on others' poems this past week.
And thanks to anyone else who tuned in, or has checked this post out!
Check Out the Prior Classes Here:
(Don't upvote, older posts past pay-out.)
- Week #1 - Including "lecture" portion on what critique is, its different forms, and how and why to go about it.
- Week #2 - where we speak of what you should critique, reasons to not share critique, and reasons to.
- Week #3 - Nothing but good ol' critique.
- Week #4 - Critique, and topped off with a special critique we gave to a poem by Percy Shelley.
Check out my latest posts:
- How To Critique Poetry - A Simple Structure
- Steemitschool Poetry Class - Critique Thursday Class #4 - 12/04/18 - Recording and Notes
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.
© Guy Shalev 2018.
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Comment by @killerwhale. This is a opt-in bot.
It's already 5th class :O Time flies!
Thank you very much for recording and posting this.. <3
Time sure does! Hopefully you'll be able to make some classes again soon!
And if not, that is what the recordings are for :)
thank you for all you do :)
Thank you for the continued support <3
You know that we love you - and who is supporting whom? I think you are doing a lot of the supporting 😉
Well, I'm there. That's all I'm going to say ;)
so you've been running this class, ThunderCat?
nice.
Only the Thursday class. And rather than "run" it, I think of myself as its "facilitator" :3
I'm not at all humble, because as I am wont to say, I know my worth. It also means I know when it's not me who's deserving of accolades.
And thank you! :)
☺ thank you, yoo, ThunderCat.
Everyday I learn that I know nothing.
Does this count as a "half-assessed comment"?
Well, it's not a critique.
And if it were, it'd amount to "I like this," or "I don't like this." This comment cannot be the entirety of your work, but only the first step along the journey to elaborating on it.
I will make it a point to stop by each Friday and listen. That's why I follow your blog Guy.
שלום
Thank you kindly, and I hope it'd be beneficial to you :)
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