The students were glad they went because they learned how to appreciate Hispanic literature more and how to see properly the bilingual verses and poetry of Laviera Furthermore, several of the students that were at the lecture expressed their joy for coming because of the experience the Hispanic culture and poetry. In a workshop on poetry presented by Laviera later that afternoon, he gave to his seven attendees a gift. Tato gave to them a respect for words. In the workshop, people who attended were exposed to the principal of understanding the spoken rhetoric of poetry. Laviera gave two great principles for reading poetry.
Every syllable is an expression.
You have to stretch it out. You have to dance it. You have to put form to it. By saying it correctly, you feel it. By you stretching it out, the poem becomes stronger.