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

[Chris Lott]

Actually, forget this post. I'm just not interested in the argument.
I'm much more interested-- and have been for a long time-- in how I
can figure out how some of these new poems work.

I'm not looking for explication in the traditional sense. I'm also not
excluding the possibility that I'm simply not smart enough to do so.

c

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Chris Lott<chris at chrislott.org> wrote:
> Your being circular, Bob. The only thing not having an MFA "blocks" is
> being a member of the MFA club, which surely isn't going to help one
> much if they want to work in academia, for obvious reasons. You won't
> find me disagreeing that our higher ed system is broken. But this
> isn't an aspect of poetry, but of the academic system in general.
> Where are you going to get any teaching position in anything in higher
> ed without having those credentials?
>
> c
>