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

[Anny Ballardini]

I really don't know if my mail last night made it to the list, it was late,
I was sleepy, I saved to send it today, but could not find it any more.
I wanted to say, and I said that _even if I sweated all I could sweat, I
loved my MFA program, and as soon as I finished it, I asked Bill Lavender if
I could do it all over again. I also took two extra courses which were
regularly graded. I loved all the courses except one but because of the
professor. We had no feeling one for the other.
It hasn't physically taken me anywhere, as a matter I am still here doing
the absolutely same things. I am terribly sorry it ended, I feel void, as if
I did not have an ideal any more.
I paid for my MFA, for my books, trips and everything. I am proud of myself.
I feel it gave me just so much that I cannot even know which words to use to
describe what I feel.

My best, Anny

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:48 PM, <almaginnes at aol.com> wrote:

> I teach in a community college so the MFA gig looks impossibly sweet and
> unattainable to me (one day I will post my long and bitter ran about this).
> In hte reading series I run, I make it a point to only get folks who want to
> be there. Anyone who acts like a CC is beneath htem goes off hte list
> immeditely. I might add that over the years, we've had some pretty
> impressive folks--three Kinglsy Tufts winners, one Pulitzer winner, many
> others with major prizes and publications.  One of the beauties of my campus
> is that with hte exception of me and one or two others, thsoe prizes and
> honros mean nothing, so readers are judged on their ability ot connect with
> the students.  As ot should be.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
> Sent: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 12:09 pm
> Subject: [New-Poetry] An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs
>
> Yes.  While I don't teach in an MFA program, I imagine it's irksome to be
> lectured on how cushy and safe one's life is by someone who skims off the
> cream of the university creative writing system while shouldering no
> institutional commitments or responsibilities--never teaching big sophomore
> lit classes or freshman comp; never chairing a department or faculty
> committee; never advising or counseling students; never writing letters of
> recommendation; never serving on institutional task forces or search
> committees; and, of course, never organizing the visiting writers'20series
> which provides the blowhard in question the platform for such lofty
> dismissals.
>
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>  On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:51 AM, AlMaginnes at aol.com wrote:
>
>  True. August Kleinzhaler might find "real life" a lot more real if he
> practiced what he preached and didn't take any university or grant money.
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