For the record, I write not for MFA graduates, but for farmers, hunters, climbers, trekkers, and sailors, none of whom are schooled in poetry. I can assure you that neither Dick Wilbur nor Tony Hecht wrote their poems with MFA graduates in mind. When Dick was teaching at Harvard in 1952, the English faculty proposed a new program, an MFA in creative writing. Dick and his equally young friend, John Updike, the only real writers on the Harvard faculty, put the kibosh on this scheme, arguing that young writers should be studying geology or astronomy.
Last edited by Tim Murphy; 08-11-2012 at 05:40 PM.
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