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

[Halvard Johnson]

Oy, those Europeans. They don't think folks need to go to college
to learn to be creative any more than they need to go to college
to study their native language.

Hal

On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Anny Ballardini wrote:

> Oh sorry, I should have been more precise, my reference was to your  
> words:
> "when we are not on leave in Italy"
>
> in Italy they have ruins, dirty ruins, a lot of mafia, some grappa,  
> and heaps of debts, and bureaucracy is so strong that it suffocates  
> it all_
> when I say these things in class they think they do not like me any  
> more.
>
> It was Paul Vangelisti who told me they should soon have an MFA  
> program here in Italy, that there is one in Paris, one in ...  
> something like three-four scattered around Europe.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:44 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>  
> wrote:
> So, do they have graduate creative writing programs in Italy, Anny?
>
>
>
>
>
> On 9/8/08 10:42 AM, "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
> Hey, I am sweating in Italy... :-)
>
>
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