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

[Anny Ballardini]

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wow
what a class!

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:

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> Graham, David wrote:
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>> Also, the "standardization" charge is meaningless without illustration.
>> Furthermore, if one wanted to argue rather than merely assert it, that would
>> require some effort.  Certainly it would require more than citing a bland
>> poem or three, since mediocrity is the default mode of all poetry in every
>> era.
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> My classmates in the MFA program at Iowa included Marvin Bell, Mark Strand,
> Charles Wright, James Tate, Frank Chin, Lawson Inada, Michael S. Harper, and
> of course me. No L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E or vizpoets, but short of Wilshberia, it
> would be hard to find a cookie cutter that would stamp all of them out. And
> others who went in still different directions. Ken Rosen, dyspeptic and
> brilliant. George Keithley, author of a book-length poem on the Donner
> Party. A couple of poet laureates whose work could not be more different --
> Mary  Crow (Colorado), influenced by her Spanish-language translations as
> much by anything that happened at Iowa, and Edmund Skellings (Florida), who
> went through Iowa without absorbing any influences at all, and has remained
> an unregenerate formalist.
>
> --
> Tad Richards
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