[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[cris cheek]

hmmm this is somewhat out of date Bob

i'm working with students and making work as an artist

the one informs and supports the other
i am employed as a practitioner

i get paid well for being so

and my work is pretty "out there" to boot

and i don't shout about it and i like to hear about a huge diversity  
of contemporary practice


cris


On Dec 10, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:

> TheOldMole wrote:
>> For just the amount of time you'd have to spend advising students  
>> with
>> a creative writing major or minor as to the courses they needed to
>> take to fulfill their requirements, you could earn more than your 10K
>> shoveling snow -- and that's given the fact that you live in Florida.
> What, I'd have ten thousand students and, as DIRECTOR, no assistant to
> look up what each needs to get a degree?  (As lit majors, they  
> couldn't
> be expected to figure it out on their own.)  Good grief, give me an
> extra half-a-K, and I could make a program to do it.  I'm amazed that
> you don't have such a program.
>
> But it's the same old story: everybody's over-paid except those in my
> field.  And administrators are parasites on teachers who are parasites
> on art-producers, who starve.
>
> --Bob G.
>
>
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