[New-Poetry] Low-Resolution MFA in Poetry

[Anny Ballardini]

I can get the course, "RIAA_ONK [Read it All Always_ One Never Knows]"
and Amy King can get: "BTA_ONK [Be There Always_ One Never Knows]"
[what a different letter in your name can do]

[I loved the pajamas! It was a little embarrassing with Skype at the
beginning but then people get used to it]

Flying Director of Programs: James Finnegan
Assistant, Vice Director, Knowledgeable Man: David Graham

*Optional courses*:

The Ever-present Heavy Machine /Marshall McLuhan et Co.: The Lurkers
William Gibson's Projected Self: Staff

*Side Program /Compulsory*:

Vitamins: Tad Richards

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com>wrote:

> None of them, Bob.  None of them.
>
> You win, and you're always right.  Happy?
>
> Jeff Newberry
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:
>
>>  JforJames at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>  Low-Resolution MFA in Poetry
>> A program offered exclusively through the NewPoetry List
>>
>> Faculty: A.R. Ammons (on leave); Allen Ginsberg (on leave);
>> May Swenson (on leave); Billy Collins (ubiquitous).
>>
>> Core Curriculum: 40 hours, spent in front of a computer wearing your
>> favorite pajamas.
>>
>> Selected Courses Include:
>>
>> Rhyme: "Is there an echo in here?"
>>
>> Flarf: "Just Google and go, baby"
>>
>> VizPo for Mediocrities: "Cure your blindspot for visual poetry,"
>> taught by Bob Grumman.
>>
>> Rips & Riffs: "Aphorisms back at ya, with a satiric twist" by Halvard
>> Johnson
>>
>> The Long Poem: Strategies for Staying Awake
>>
>> Meter for Dummies: "Sam Gwynn and Robin Hamilton prove their ears are
>> better
>> than yours."
>>
>> Language Poetry: "They had to call it that, otherwise who'd know."
>>
>> Retro Post-Avant Poetry: "Poets desperately seeking a rubric can always
>> find a home
>> by adding another modifier."
>>
>> This low-resolution program features two lost weekends per year of
>> mercifully short workshops: Groups of no more than ten 20-somethings, raised
>> by big-screen TV sets, telling you why your poem sucks.
>>
>> Tuition:
>> $50 per credit hour by credit card,
>> at: www.pissedawaymyMFA.com.
>> Diploma may be downloaded as a pdf file
>> upon payment confirmation.
>> Add $10 for hardcopy suitable for framing. (Your Mum will love it!)
>>
>> Note: Student Loans still available thru TARP, till the money runs out.
>>
>>
>> I have to admit you made me laugh, James--but, seriously, what college has
>> a better MFA program?
>>
>> --Prof. Bob
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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>


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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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