Writing Exercises

I need Legitimate feedback.
Let's give it to each other.

Also, opportunity to be published for us all?

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Poetry doesn't have to rhyme?

I am taking a poetry class this semester. When asked to list off poets that we were inspired by I found myself totally at a loss. Up until that point, my exposure to poetry was Shel Silverstein and whatever Maya Angelou says when she's a guest on the Oprah show. So for this last assignment I chose to work with a medium that I have more experience in. Choose your own adventure.

Tear me to shreds, please:

Figuring It Out

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about sending my work out. To, you know… potentially be published. I’m confident in my ability to write, revise, etc—the problem being this fear that my family will read and be offended by my interpretation of the truth. Joan Didion said, “Writers are always selling somebody out--”

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Does anyone ever look at this page and quietly think, "someone really ought to post something new"?