DMPW Monthly Critique Group

Name: DMPW Monthly Critique Group
Start: 2025-08-30T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-30T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Smokey Row Coffee - Des Moines, IA

Schedule

Sat Aug 30 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Smokey Row Coffee - Des Moines, IA | Des Moines, IA

Poets are asked to bring a maximum of 2 pages of poetry (to allow for maximum quality review time. Digital copies are preferred (via Google Docs or a Word Doc), though printed copies are welcome. Be prepared to review others' work digitally, though.
The first hour is for reading others' poems on your own and writing down your comments. This is where you take note of your interpretations, questions you're left with, techniques/images/lines that worked well and ones that could be improved, etc.
The second hour is for the discussion. We divide the hour into time slots based on the number of poets in the session. We ask the poet being workshopped to not speak during their time slot. This allows them to understand how their work is being read and adjust as they see fit.