“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
On MFA Poetry/Nin Andrews
If you do nothing else today, read this epic poem by Nin Andrews posted at Tom Clark's Beyond the Pale.
The MFA poem (or the anti-MFA poem) doesn't get any better than this.
Terry Simons is the founder of Round Bend Press Books and Round Bend Press Detritus. He has worked as a day laborer, dishwasher, factory drone, community organizer, journalist, media consultant and freelance writer. He attended the University of Oregon and Portland State University, where he read journalism, politics, literature and history. He is the author most recently of "Third and a Mile," a fan's notes about the University of Oregon's football travails, 2010--2017.
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