posted 2003/02/26 at 22:06
I spent a good part of today looking at poetry journals, just taking a look at what's out there. I'm really beginning to wonder if there is room for me in modern poetics; nearly all of the modern stuff (meaning from the past ten years or so) I'm reading is just so stagnant. I mean, it's nice and all, technically sound, and the poems aren't bad, it's just that there's no real oomph behind them.
I mention this because I had been giving serious thought to getting my MFA once I get out of UT, and to try to get a professorship somewhere. The problem is that you really can't get a professorship, or even acceptance to the more prestigious MFA programs, without being published, and I don't really see myself writing in the style which seems to be so popular these days. I don't really know what to do.
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