SethAbramson
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The second in what will hopefully be a summer-long series of prelims-reading journal entries:
about 7 hours ago
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Now that he's written and directed the third-highest-grossing film in world history, we can stop pretending Joss Whedon is marginalized...
about 10 hours ago
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Just saw a few minutes of Queen Elizabeth II's Fog Jubilee -- sorry, I mean Diamond Jubilee -- on CNN.
about 11 hours ago
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The first in what will hopefully be a summer-long series of prelims-reading journal entries:
about 12 hours ago
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@ That's why they refer to MFAs as "institutions" or "cash-cow operations" or "a system" rather than as a series of communities
6:05 PM May 31st
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in reply to francoisluong
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Of course, we didn't know the MFA boom was 60 (not 30) years post-IWW-founding until there was research into the literary history of MFAs.
5:37 PM May 31st
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which, MFA history makes clear, was basically _ignored_ by virtually every MFA that came after. That's why the MFA boom was 60 yrs post-IWW.
5:35 PM May 31st
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e.g., Perelman's rejection of the MFA model, ironically, was based on a rejection _solely_ of the idiosyncratic Iowa Writers' Workshop model
5:34 PM May 31st
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But to speak of individual MFAs, you have to _know about them_, and the post-avant can't be bothered, so we keep having silly conversations.
5:32 PM May 31st
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Here's the secret: The history of MFAs makes very clear that _there is no reified, unified MFA model_--we have to speak of individual MFAs.
5:32 PM May 31st
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Or Keith Waldrop. Or Forrest Gander. Or CD Wright. Or Robert Coover. Yet we're not allowed to see _individual_ MFAs, only a "system," so...
5:30 PM May 31st
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Consider: You have a semi-autonomous, theory-conscious operation w/i the Brown U English Dept. that's not hindered Rosemarie Waldrop at all.
5:29 PM May 31st
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Silliman's "third term" idea is new & useful. Problem is, the "third term" is found in the MFA sphere but the post-avant won't look there.
5:28 PM May 31st
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If, as Silliman says, "community" is "figured negatively" by post-avants, it's due to their ongoing (artificial) response to MFA communities
5:05 PM May 31st
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Wore a suit today for the first time in...well, like forever. Hard to believe I used to do that 5 days a week -- year after year after year.
8:28 AM May 31st
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Post-MFAers looking for funding opportunities: Scroll down at this link for a listing of all 41 US post-MFA fellowships
10:31 PM May 30th
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@ FWIW, the AWP database lists 193 MFAs, 5 erroneously; the MRP database lists 224, all presently operating:
10:19 PM May 30th
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Both those within _and_ without the MFA community have always been much more ambivalent about the workshop pedagogy than they claim to be...
10:15 PM May 30th
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In 1985, one of the most powerful figures within the MFA community, John Barth, compared the spread of MFAs (in the NYT) to herpes simplex.
10:14 PM May 30th
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The "rush" I referred to below is more complicated, e.g., than I can discuss in 140 characters, b/c in a sense it's old and in a sense new.
10:09 PM May 30th
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- Name Seth Abramson
- Location Madison, WI
- Web http://www.sethab...
- Bio Poet, attorney, doctoral student, freelance journalist.
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