Hilda Raz: Feedback

These are excerpts from written responses by attendees at the various campus events featuring this writer.

[I will take away from this experience] the speaker' comments about being a literary editor, and the speaker's prestige and expertise, and the discussion of Prairie Schooner and how the editor sees it.
[I attended this event] Because I think it is cool to meet a writer whose work I am reading [and because] I met a "living" writer.
It helped me realize the creativity of common people.
Current writers can relate to current issues.
I learned that poetry comes I many forms.
This event made me more interested in current writers who are not African American.
Never be afraid or shy away from trying something new and different.
This event opened a side of me, the creative side, that I didn't know I had.
This event has added a new understanding on why people love poetry so much. It is relaxing and awakens ideas you never knew you had.
[I will take away from this experience] Raz's use of detail to create an amazing picture in my mind.
I think I will go and buy one of her books (Trans).
[I will take away from this experience] the gentility and sincerity of Hilda Raz's spirit and poetry
[This event encouraged me] to read Raz and the writer she reads (the breast cancer book).
[I will take away from this experience] small anecdotes given by the speaker.