[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[Linda Sue Grimes]

Apparently, I missed the original post on this.  Could someone forward me a copy?

Thanks in advance,
lsg
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Grumman 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:37 AM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Runaway MFA


  Suzanne Burns wrote: 



    On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:

      I'm so out of it that I have to ask, is 33K supposed to be low for a DIRECTOR?  I should think 66 times more than poets make a year as poets would be more than reasonable. 

      --Bob G.

    33K is very, very low for an academic director of a program. She isn't being paid to write poetry-- she is being paid to sacrifice time she could spend writing poetry to instead direct and shape the whole program.  It's a full-time and highly demanding job.

    33K-- wow, I can make more than that shoveling snow. Maybe I have been out of the academic loop for a very long time, but if this really is the going rate for heads of departments, at a time when tuitions are going into the stratosphere, academia must be in very sad shape indeed.

    Suzanne
  I'd do it for ten K, and, I assure you, I could handle it.  But I lack the proper credentials, and the students might end up learning something about poetry if I were allowed really to direct the program, so I don't think they'll take my offer.

  --Bob G.




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