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

[AlMaginnes at aol.com]

Interesting take on things. I guess it would have been too much to expect  
that poetry would be discussed in the review. 
 
A thought--one reason writing programs are kicked around so much might be  
the attitude of some faculty and students who seem inclined to agree with  
critics like McGrath. This gives us the ugly spectacle on someone like Neal  
Bowers who teaches creative writing for thirty years in a university, then,  
safely retried, writes a nasty essay about creative writing programs and  
publishes it in Poetry. as Doc Holliday says in Wyatt Earp, "I myself was  a 
den-tist. I was proud to be den-tist. I did not hide the fact that I was a  
den-tist." maybe we need a little more of that sort of  attitude.
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