ENTRY 25: About Poetry Section.

We are most pleased with the part of cooperation of the group members.

We attend the weekly meeting regularly. We exchange our own understandings of the poems and analyze the poems together. For the editing process, we finish our own part on time and then the whole task will smoothly proceed.

We have 3 major problems involved in our jobs.

1.      Criteria:

At first, because we are the novice as editors in the poetry section; it’s hard for us to set the criteria as different people have different opinion of what a good poem is. After setting the criteria, it’s also hard to select poem as some poems have their own strength while not meeting all the criteria. So we have to make a careful choice.  

2.      Interpretation:

As we are not native English speakers, it’s easy for us to wrongly interpret the poems with confused words. Sometimes, we encounter such situation that one member think highly of one piece of poem while another one doesn’t like it. Also, we have the trouble that because of our interpretation of the poem is different from what the author wants to convey, conflicts between author and editor occur.

3.      Communication:

The editing part really requires effective communication between the editor and the author.  Our communication with the author is not very effective. In some cases, editors fail to give clear suggestions to the author, and haven’t clarified the problems clearly, and it causes a problem that the revision poems that editors get are not the ones that we want.

If we have a chance to redo it again, we will do it differently.

1.      We will clearly define the jobs of editors and reach a common understanding of the criteria before we begin our job.

2.      Giving more time to understand the poem, increase the confidence and effectively communicate with the poet.