Two or three times during the quarter, I will schedule individual half-hour conferences with each of you to talk about the poems you've written and the progress you've made toward revising them. You should come to these conferences prepared to discuss the comments you've received in your peer groups, any revisions you've made, and your plans for further revision.

     An important thing to keep in mind about conferences: although my comments and suggestions on your drafts will be intended to help you write a better poem, they will not be "fix this" instructions you can follow to be guaranteed an A. Poems that are "in progress" often go in surprising directions as they are revised, at times, as you'll have seen by the end of the quarter, heading off in a direction opposite the one they took at the start. (I may even at times suggest the direction in which a poem seems to me to want to go.)

     But the only certainty here is that the final choices are yours. The more flexible you are, the more open to what the poem wants to be, the more willing to revise substantially in order to achieve that goal, the better your final poem will be.