Writing Problems: Things They Don't Teach you in MFA Programs

Justice, Gilbert, Cela

1. Turf wars are a waste of time.

There is no turf. The literary internecine battles waste energy because poetry’s umbrella is broad enough to include everything. When I was in college from 1993-1997, there was still serious conversation about the status and placement of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Something similar exists now between the so-called Insta po…