[New-Poetry] Bernadette Mayer
Suzanne Burns
queenmouse at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 09:43:47 EDT 2007
To the best of my knowledge, she has been teaching workshops at St Mark's,
as well as writing and editing.
I think I heard also that she was teaching a workshop out of her home in
NYC. But I haven't heard anything about her teaching at a university-- nor
did I know that financial worries were an issue. I hope I misunderstood the
original post.
It is true though that "deserving, recognized, and influential" does not
necessarily lead to "rewarded". That's just life I guess. :-(
Suzanne
On 8/8/07, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
>
> Many of us find a new one weekly. It's a great time to be alive as a
> writer. I don't mind the silence, but I would like to see Bernadette Mayer
> hired by a good university. (Of course, there is a down side for very
> deserving writers who have to endure financial worries for decades. Before
> them I am silent.)
>
>
>
> Not to go way off topic, but I have thought the same thing about Mayer--
> i.e., why she isn't on the faculty of a really top notch University and
> paid very, very well. She is after all not only an extraordinarily
> accomplished poet, she also has that rep for being a particularly gifted
> teacher. *sigh*
>
> Suzanne Burns
>
> I thought she had clout as a first generation language poet. That should
> get her into a lot of universities. Did she offend someone in language
> poetry?
>
> --Bob
>
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