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

[Anny Ballardini]

Hey, I am sweating in Italy... :-)


On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

>
>
> 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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