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mfa programs

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The CIA and Creative Writing

  • Ashley Perez
  • February 25, 2014
Did the Iowa Writers’ Workshop take money from a CIA front? Has it left a profound impact on literature as we know it? The folks over at The Chronicle of…
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Creative Writing, Creative Careers

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • November 4, 2013
The two central myths are one, that literary citizenship is all about self-promotion, and two, that it’s connected deeply to the “marketplace.” In an interview for Ploughshares, Tasha Golden talks to…
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Master of Feeling Ambivalent

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 23, 2013
There are a lot of people who have very strong feelings about MFA programs, but Blake Butler’s Vice piece “What I Remember from Getting an MFA in Creative Writing,” just sort…
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Making Sense of the MFA Debate

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • April 12, 2013
We’re all familiar with the great MFA debate: Can an MFA program teach you how to write? Is it just a Ponzi scheme? Why should you enroll in one, or…
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Questionable Ranking Systems for MFA Programs

  • Sam Riley
  • September 13, 2011
Poets & Writers recently ranked the country’s MFA programs, and as rankings often do, it is being received with some hostility. Their hierarchy of MFA programs is based on the…
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What’s It Like at Your MFA Program?

  • Brian Spears
  • September 3, 2011
John Gallaher is looking for responses in what he’s calling his “Market Research Friday.” Yes, it’s Saturday, but I suspect he’s leaving comments open for a while yet. Here’s what…
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MFAs, for Better or for Worse

  • Sam Riley
  • May 23, 2011
Creative programs are increasingly common and so are their criticisms. The difficulty with pinpointing creativity to an academic institution or justifying a trend where tuition money and literary prowess are…
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The MFA Rankings Wars

  • Brian Spears
  • October 31, 2009
Last week in my Poetic Lives Online column, I wrote a little about the immediate reaction to the Poets & Writers MFA program rankings. Well, it’s blown up a bit…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • October 24, 2009
Can you tell the difference between E. E. Cummings and a YouTube commenter? (It’s really not as hard as it looks.) Caroline Guinzio has been guest blogging at Unstressed this…
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Don’t Be a Coward: The Rumpus Interview with Philipp Meyer

  • Stacy Muszynski
  • July 10, 2009
“All of us, all the time, are searching for some order in the world/universe/our lives. We’re searching for guiding principles and explanations. Especially in times of stress, we tend to…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • June 6, 2009
Barbara Jane Reyes has a good response to the New Yorker article on MFA programs I posted earlier. At Harriet, Don Share takes on poetry reviews, even though he’s tired…
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Louis Menand on Creative-Writing Programs

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • June 4, 2009
Louis Menand has really been on a roll this year. First the must-read article about how the Village Voice changed journalism, then the article on Donald Barthelme, and now this…
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