[New-Poetry] And gladly wolde they lerne and gladly . . .

[Skip Fox]

I've been teaching over 30 years (counting teaching in graduate school) and
in a program which gives a concentration at the Ph.D. level in creative
writing as well as Folklore, Women's Studies, Rhetoric. We don't give an MFA
, but we have many creative theses. 

 

I love interacting with the bright grad students who are more into writing
than career (but have to work with all . . . that's okay), but I also love
to work with undergraduates who are just opening their eyes to the
possibility that writing might open entirely new ways of thinking, etc.

 

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Subject: [New-Poetry] And gladly wolde they lerne and gladly . . .

 



Yet another teacher here, yes.  

And another thing that might be interesting to know would be how many of us
teach in MFA programs?  I'm guessing that the answer will be:  rather few.
A lot of the people I run into at the AWP conference seem to teach at
community colleges, high schools, undergraduate programs, etc.  Many
part-time and adjunct, too.

I wonder how many of us on this list who teach actually teach in grad
programs of creative writing?

I've been a teacher for 30 years or so, depending on how you count my grad
school teaching assistantship, but the vast majority of classes I've taught
have been freshman comp and literature courses, with nary a grad student to
be seen.  

A pet peeve of mine is how frequently critics of the current poetry scene
act as though poets are not only all professors, but professors at at Iowa
or Columbia, teaching the occasional small seminar of grad students when we
are not on leave in Italy. . . . 

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