Monday, November 29, 2010

MFA vs. NYC: America now has two distinct literary cultures. Which one will last? - By Chad Harbach - Slate Magazine

MFA vs. NYC: America now has two distinct literary cultures. Which one will last? - By Chad Harbach - Slate Magazine: "We are all MFAs now.

On the flip side (as McGurl can't quite know, because he attended 'real' grad school), MFA programs themselves are so lax and laissez-faire as to have a shockingly small impact on students' work—especially shocking if you're the student and paying $80,000 for the privilege. Staffed by writer-professors preoccupied with their own work or their failure to produce any; freed from pedagogical urgency by the tenuousness of the link between fiction writing and employment; and populated by ever younger, often immediately postcollegiate students, MFA programs today serve less as hotbeds of fierce stylistic inculcation, or finishing schools for almost-ready writers

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Friday, November 26, 2010

Poetry/Quotes from Librarianchick

Poetry/Quotes

Free Literature Templates | Cruzine

Free Literature Templates | Cruzine: "Literature is, definitely, a self-sufficient type of art. However, when words are supplemented and thus enforced with some professional graphic layout design – a poem or any other literary work turns into a real masterpiece with high aesthetic value. This is where designers can help poets and writers. With free literature templates, such as those presented below, one can ensure the best visual appearance of the literature. If you are good at manipulating with words, do not hesitate to download some of these free literature templates, created by those, who are good at manipulating with colors and textures.

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Free Printable Poetry Frames and Poem Templates - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

Free Printable Poetry Frames and Poem Templates - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "Free Printable Poetry Frames and Poem Templates

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VersePerfect - Download

Although I'd rather be riding in a herse
than create rhyming verse, here is a free tool:

VersePerfect - Download: "“Looking to write a poem? Here's some help”

by Francesca Migliorini

about VersePerfect

This powerful application
Might lead you into an ardent temptation
To spend hours and hours
Writing joyful poems, inspired, perhaps, by summer flowers.

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Monday, November 22, 2010

The Heteronym Homepage

The Heteronym Homepage

POETRY

TRY POET
POET TRY
POETRY

oneword.com

oneword.com: "sim­ple. you’ll see one word at the top of the screen.

you have sixty sec­onds to write about it.

click ‘go’ and the page will load with the cur­sor in place.

don’t think. just write.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010