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shit are we.... supposed to submit a fafsa for UT???????

I super hate to be a bummer, but one of my best friends is doing his MFA at CU Boulder and he mentioned to me the other night that Khadijah Queen is leaving because she got a better position elsewhere ? He was really hoping to work with her, too. This could turn out to not be the case, just what I heard!

The Maggie Nelson thing is honestly really funny-- I included her as an influence in my SOPs (for poetry) because it would be genuinely dishonest to not... I mean, I'm over here planning a Bluets tattoo lol. But everyone in my undergrad was obsessed with her so I was definitely worried it might be overblown. I also included Eduardo C Corral, Ocean Vuong, and Kate Zambreno (along with a couple younger poets with less name recognition), and tried to name drop at least one faculty member per program that I'd like to work with.

bless u @Ydrl for sharing this info!

My portal says the same, but honestly I think it's been like that for a while? I could be misremembering but I've been checking the portal intermittently since submitting, and both Michener and NWP have the same language on them.

p sure I called it that this was Marshall's profile within one hour of the profile's creation, gee it's almost like he's so predictable it's boring

he's also getting increasingly lazy with all of these new profiles he's creating, huh? I'd sure hate to be someone who thinks being a dick is a personality trait

edited because the whole point of this post was to laugh at how sad Marshall was being and he's since deleted his post/got reported again lmao

Someone asked the same question on Draft today but there haven't been any responses back I don't think ? Guess we'll just all have to freak out and hope lol

Minnesota is one of my absolute favorite programs so when I just woke up from my nap and saw that there had been a poetry acceptance AN HOUR AGO I started freaking out. Especially given how small the cohort is this year (I think they're only taking six writers total??) I'm trying not to feel doomed that I haven't had a call from them yet.

I'm so sorry for your loss, and hope you can find comfort wherever possible. Seconding @goodcynara's recommendation of Forrest Gander's Be With; its first poem absolutely takes my breath away. I'd also recommend Diana Khoi Nguyen's Ghost Of (which deals with the sudden suicide of her little brother) and Victoria Chang's OBIT (which uses the obituary format as a way to cope with her mother's death.)

I ended up going with Palatino, which I find legible and also suited to my work, if that makes any sense lol. It's on most Apple products and on Google Docs too, so it's accessible. My friend who's in his MFA now at CU Boulder used it for his fiction apps and recommended it to me. Agreeing though with the general consensus that font is not a make-or-break. I think as long as you go with a legible serif old-style font, you'll be fine.

You've got nothing to apologize for. You're allowed to express your impressions of something and there's a HUUUGE difference between doing that and what this other user did. Personally I only joined the Draft after finishing my applications but I've liked it so far! I think people are definitely more... professionally minded since FB doesn't offer the same anonymity that GF does, but I like having both communities for their own respective benefits.

And that's the TEA, folx

For real. All I can say after reading her last post is that I sure as heck hope I don't end up in a program with her. Maybe that's harsh, but it's 2021 and if you don't know how to not be an ableist jerk and to not be hostile towards your potential colleagues then it's not my job to pretend to tolerate it.