Re: [New-Poetry] An Era of DÃ(c)tente for Creative-Wri ting Programs

[Chris Lott]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bob Grumman<bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
>
> Chris, you're forgetting the many first-rate poets whose careers are blocked
> because they never bothered with an MFA program.

It's not impossible, but not too believable. Is there some kind of
secret seal that MFA grads affix to their poetry? If their work was
good, wouldn't it find its way out?

And why would those excluded poets want to be members of the club that
doesn't want them? To publish alongside those they believe to be
mediocrities?

c