This article presents the reflections of the conference offered in 2014 in the city of Turin during the V Wokshop of Contemporary Spanish Poetry. More than a theoretical exposition, "workshop reflections" are offered, definitions of the practice that accompanies the poetic craft. Writing is self-knowledge and self-definition before oneself and before others, vital justification and epitaph. And metapoetry is that poetry that has itself as a subject, as a reflection on the implications of writing. Because writing poetry is not a single-stratum attitude, but rather admits a second discourse that parallel and simultaneously exposes what the author thinks and feels about his own literary activity or about the texts he is writing. If we consider the substitution of reality for language, we are not only before the consoling self-consumption of that language, but also before its second possible justification: the supposed transcendence by means of the writing of the sheaf of emotions and reflections that we call "me".
