There is a democratic but deluded post-modern fantasy whereby everybody is demed an artist. - Dennis O'Driscoll

If poets spoke their poetry , they would not need to write it.

There is no one way 'correct' way of becoming a writer. The very quirks and eccentricities which a workshop will probably discourage may in fact be the aspiring writer's most valuable capital in the longer term. Would be literary Samsons should be wary of enrolling in a hairdressing school.

Writers are not neccessarily articulate simply because poetry is their stock-in-trade.