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

[Mark Weiss]

His credentials were better than Melville's or Dickinson's or for 
that matter Shakespeare's. Credentials are a bureaucratic necessity.

Again, you don't get paradigm shifts by teaching people how not to 
write. There's something at stake here beyond the cultivation of a 
polite accomplishment.

Mark

At 07:14 PM 7/2/2009, you wrote:
>I have a couple of friends who studied with Hugo and spoke of it as 
>a life changing experience. He certainly had the credentials to be 
>hired by a university--advanced degree, a couple of books with good 
>publishers, and his subsequent career more than justified whatever 
>gamble they took in hiring him from the business world. His book THE 
>TRIGGERING TOWN may be the best book I've read yet about writing and 
>teaching poetry.
>
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