Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Jeannine Hall-Gailey writes...
'What I wanted to say to the girl living in misery and unemployment after her MFA — learning and getting better don't happen on their own — you sort of have to keep going out and making it happen. Just getting an MFA doesn't automatically make you a writer, and in my experience, it certainly does not automatically make you an employed writer.
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'Approaching Your Favorite Writers
You might be interested to hear that besides community readings and workshops, you can also just write out of the blue to your favorite writers and ask if they'd be willing to coach you for a fee. You'd be surprised to find out who might say yes, and this is a much better way (not to mention, more cost-efficient) for you to get advice on, say a particular stretch of manuscript from a particular point of view than a two-year degree.'
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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David Prater writes... "When I speak of books as coherent communities here, I do not mean in the conventional sense of ‘oh, what a disparate, quirky and fascinating bunch of individuals whose work has been assembled here’. Despite having been included myself in several anthologies, I am not interested in the biographical components of these books."
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
by Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng:
days like this, against the scores of weather-vanes
autumn books fighting termites, meals of fleshed out bittermelons,
straw men down the ground, smell of turps
a cloudburst white as a skull
Rest
here.
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
The Wikipedia article on Graham Foust is under discussion for deletion because it 'may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for academics'. Foust has written four full collections of poetry; As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions, 2003), Leave the Room to Itself (Ahsahta Press, 2004), Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007), and A Mouth in California (Flood Editions, 2009)
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
by Christine Klocek-Lim:
"Once again, I was strangely comforted. This chapbook was the friend who lived across the country from me. The friend I couldn't talk to very often. The friend who nevertheless understood exactly what I had been feeling in the midst of destruction."
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