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New Resolution
In keeping with the spirit of the New Year, starting over, and staying fresh, I’ve updated my website, combined it with my blog, given it all a nice redesign, and shifted over to using WordPress to do it all. Stay tuned!
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Split This Rock
Split This Rock is currently inviting proposals for panel and round table discussions, workshops, and themed group readings for our third national poetry festival, scheduled for March 22-25, 2012, in Washington, DC. The festival will consider the relationship of poets and poetry to power and to the challenges to power. In addition the festival will […]
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An event.
The day I received word I’d been awarded a sum of money for poems about loving men–in fact, a particular man–a friend of mine and I were publicly humiliated by two teenage boys for being gay. I’ve been writing about this incident since it happened, recording my intellectual and emotional responses, pulling the event apart; […]
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Para-mourning
As many of you know, one of my favorite bands experienced a significant rupture this week. Paramore lost two of its (cutest) founding members, Josh and Zac Farro, and while Haley and the other two are resolved to go forward, I can’t help feeling like I caused this. Let me explain. I have a track […]
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Further Considerations of the MFA/Not to MFA soliloquy
One point I wanted to get at in my last post was that I think some of the MFA program objections come from a sense that the degree, in some ways, might be perceived as credentialing the quality of someone’s writing. I think non-MFA graduates fear or worry that without an MFA, their level of […]
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To MFA or Not to MFA: That is the Question (that will not die)
This week, we saw yet another essay debating the merits of seeking graduate-level education in creative writing. It’s starting to feel like this writings are on some kind of cycle. Perhaps we’ll be subjected to one every semester from now until the obliteration of the academy. It got me thinking about what’s underneath all this […]
Charles Jensen | Writer 