Coastal Craft: Ada Limón

Coastal Craft: Ada Limón

As we continue to make plans for our upcoming Winter Workshops, we check in with a few of our faculty to discuss their own classroom experiences. Tin House: What can you tell us about your first workshop experience (as a participant)?

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The best piece of advice I heard in any workshop was that everything in the poem had to be working toward the larger meaning of the poem.

Even if a line was brilliant and beautiful, if its not furthering the thrust and life of the poem, it needs to be cut.