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

[James Cervantes]

Hear, Hear, to both of youse.  Been there, done that.  Ask some of the
members of this list.
I won't berate the spoiled brats of MFAdom, but I'm glad to be clear of even
the most trifle engagement with the hypocrisy you point out.

- Jim

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:48 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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