Re: [New-Poetry] Fwd: An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs

[jforjames at aol.com]

A different question, if anyone knows: Given that there has been boom in MFA Creative Writing programs, both on-campus and non-residency type programs, have their matriculation numbers dropped off noticeably (become a bust) in the current recessionary period?
Finnegan


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Do people think that before there were creative writing programs, nobody tried to write like Hemingway, or Eliot, or Edward Thomas, or Dickens? Or that because there were no creative writing programs for singers over the workshop era, no one tried to sing like Merle Haggard? 
 
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