In order to achieve an understanding of issues, techniques, poetics, aesthetics, and experiences poets communicate through poetry, participants in the Literature 385 workshop wrote and revised fifteen to twenty pages of review-essays in response to new poetry published online in electronic chapbook format and in print anthologies, poetics essays written by poets, and reference material. Participants demonstrated their interpretations of creative writing through their critical writing. This communication, process, and progress toward a final written product were the objectives of the course.