I thought it was really interesting having Carlos Hernandez visit our class. There were a few things that really stuck out to me about his visit. The first being that I often fail to take in the full meaning of a poem, because most of the time I do not read them out loud. When he read one of his poems during the visit it gave me a new appreciation for the poem. When I first read the poem I missed some of the story because I was not reading it in the right way.
The second thing that I took away was how he said that digital publication of poems made it much easier for writers to be published because there is virtually no extra cost for having longer vertical space needed.
I am not a writer so he talked about many things that I was not able to connect with very well, but these two things will really stick with me as I continue with the coarse as well as I continue my work as a filmmaker.