[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwC6qbQ7fWqNBXkmTbQJZ_GT80QgD94UDCK00

Lawsuit accuses woman of pilfering poetry program
By HOLLY RAMER – 11 hours ago 

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — It's all there in black and white: a poet's pain, her suffering, her emotional distress. Turn the page and find secrecy, shock and disappointment. But don't expect passionate verse. These are lawsuits, not poems.


One accuses poet Anne Marie Macari of secretly plotting to steal a master's degree program and its faculty and then recreating it at a rival school. In a countersuit, she claims she has been defamed by malicious lies.


New England College is suing both Macari, the former director of its low-residency Master's of Fine Arts in Poetry program, and Drew University, the New Jersey school where she now directs a similar program. Suspiciously similar, claims New England College, a small liberal arts school in Henniker.


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