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Originally posted by Roger Slater:
And when we encounter a poem in a workshop, online or otherwise, does the fact that we are in a workshop cause us to assume from the start that there is something "wrong" with the poem, something that needs fixing, which then proves to be a self-fulfilling prophecy?
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Yes. I think this is precisely what happens.
I've also found that it needn't. The poems don't have to change, my reading of them does (and has, to some extent).
Julie