So in my Creative Writing class (just mentioning it makes me laugh. Shoulda been an astrophysicist) we've been doing poetry for the past couple of months and I've written some new stuff and read a lot of poets, but the thing is, I don't really get the appeal of a lot of the new poets. I mean, I read some of Kenneth Goldsmith's stuff and some of Michael Gizzi's and I was lost. I mean, if I read a poem, and I don't get it or if it's something super experimental or incomprehensible, then I can't really enjoy it, you know?

Also, my teacher has been pressing a lot on image in poems. That's fine and all, but is it bad that I don't think that way? I mean, is it really that important to define the scene when the scene is ultimately not important (or am I wrong in thinking that the scene isn't always important)? I dunno, really.