tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post982742658749530258..comments2023-08-10T05:01:45.872-07:00Comments on Blog of Myself: Ceci n'est pas une MFA thesis.a.k.a. "Joe"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09297686120651846304noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-78671776513350643002009-12-03T21:12:09.470-08:002009-12-03T21:12:09.470-08:00August Kleinzahler (sp?) uses exactly the same met...August Kleinzahler (sp?) uses exactly the same metaphor (if that's what it is): the Ponzi scheme. But I wonder how many students really think they're going to get a tenure-track teaching job based on their MFAs - without having a book or two published first.a.k.a. "Joe"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09297686120651846304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-7144332348936802342009-12-03T14:11:37.164-08:002009-12-03T14:11:37.164-08:00You've just used a word that's been needed...You've just used a word that's been needed: MFAdustrial Complex. Even though I'm a member of an MFA program, I've always thought of MFA programs as pyramid schemes: they "verify" that people write artfully, teach them to teach, then turn them out into the world to teach yet more MFA-aspirants, all while squeezing writing into the day to day. <br />I do reject the categories and cheer on the blur of form. It's like gender: flexible, (but knowing that it's flexible makes people uncomfortable). We want to put literature in a box: this is fiction. This is nonfiction. This, poetry. Male. Female.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05560779775066234365noreply@blogger.com