Template On: How to Critique Your Poem

Congratulations on your poem! Take a moment to appreciate your hard work so far; this is vital for our next steps of self-critique. We're halfway there, and now it's time to dig into what we can do together to improve the piece. Whether this poem is going to your publisher or your school's biannual art magazine, its refinement is important. Any level of artist needs to establish effective critiquing methods; they can solidify your ideas and pull you just as much as the reader into the poem’s world . . .