[New-Poetry] Re: MFA woes

[Chris Lott]

On 9/27/06, jfq at myuw.net <jfq at myuw.net> wrote:
> judging by their poetry, I would think those classes would suck.

If there's anything approaching a truism in this discussion it would
be that an author's type and quality of poetic output has no
correlation with their abilities as a teacher. There's the odd
exception, of course, but most stories of learning in a classroom from
one's idols are stories of disappointment and heartbreak.

c