Category: academia
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The Lost Poets
For the past few months, I’ve been thinking again and again about something Mark Doty posted on Facebook related to the connection between poetry and the idea of (or the term itself) “the academy.” I was initially irritated by Mark’s implication that poetry existed only within colleges and universities these days, as from my perspective,…
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O Academe!
Working in academia has its pluses and minuses. All summer long I enjoyed what amounted to a private city, with restaurants empty at lunch time, wide sidewalks and quads free of pushing and shoving and skateboarders, and on-campus services like the gym and library that seemed to be waiting for me to command them into…
Charles Jensen | Writer 