Image: Vimal Kumar Maybe you're still waiting to hear back from MFA programs or you already know you've been accepted to one or more. Either way, come April, if you are in the lucky position of being able to choose where you attend graduate school next fall, here are suggestions from some of our first… Continue reading How to make your MFA decision
[Photo cred: teo_ladodicivideo] Up until March 17th, the signs were not looking good for me to get into grad school. It was my second round of applications and I had been rejected by eight different programs already. My creative writing spirits were low. On that fateful day last winter, I was waitlisted at Indiana University. While… Continue reading How to Actively Wait…list
While it is important to interrogate our motives and impacts when we write, to dismiss any act of writing, but especially poetry, as irrelevant involves both misguided utilitarianism and overgeneralization. Acts of political resistance begin with the imagination. In order to create a more just and equitable world, we must have an idea of how that world may look. Once we have an idea, we must be able to communicate it. Inarguably, revolutionary ideas have been communicated in language throughout history.
Image credit: Moyan Brenn For the next two months we'll be asking some of our first year contributors to talk about the post application period and how they dealt with it last year. What did you do to get through the post application period? That anxiousness you get after you’ve sent your applications in is always present. You’re… Continue reading So You’re Waiting to Hear Back from MFA Programs: Post Application Advice With Devin Koch
When I was six years old, I started seeing a therapist. There were many reasons why I was in Doctor Davis' care—an overactive imagination, inappropriate concern for World War III, existential dread—but the majority of our sessions revolved around relaxation. He and I played this game where we would try to relax as much as possible,… Continue reading On (Necessary) Self Care
