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yeah i thought someone said in draft that they expressly say on their website that they dont do interviews??

i feel this tho..... the number of poets ive stalked on twitter being like this poet is YOUNGER THAN ME and has done ALL THIS ALREADY?????? i really need to stop bc it is not a good use of my time but its so hard!!!

CONGRATS!!!!!! VERY EXCITED FOR U!!!!

Umich waitlist for poetry!!! Email says "As a matter of policy we don't give out numerical positions." LOL fair enough

ooh i love fun weekend questions i write about queerness, whiteness/racialization and music!

congrats!!!!! yes......... im addicted to tft

hey! im canadian and also just got accepted to guelph. congrats on your acceptance! the new financial requirements suck 😕 but it looks like you dont have to have 20k straight up -- guelph offers every applicant a bit of funding so you can provide the letter they send you detailing funding, you can also have a family member sign a letter saying theyre willing to support you. i dont know if its possible to get it waived completely, but it would have to be through the ircc and not uoguelph. heres more info about the requirements canisia lubrin is so cool though it would be amazing to study with her!! and i know a lot of prominent canadian writers have come out of guelphs mfa program. i really hope the study permit requirements dont stop you if you do end up choosing guelph!

I'm 22 and finishing my undergrad in english and creative writing in montreal! i love anne carson and chopin. im wearing an anne carson t shirt right now and its my most prized possession

no it didn't! it just showed up as an international number (i'm canadian) so i literally just stared at my phone without picking up not daring to think it could be an acceptance......but then they left a minute long voicemail so i ended up calling them back!

THANK U 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 FOR POETRY

I JUST GOT A CALL FROM CORNELL ;ASLDKFJ;AKLSDJFKJFKLASJD;FKLA IM SCREAMING THEY SAID THEY WERE LITERALLY READING MY APPLICATION YESTERDAY AND DECIDED TO CALL ME TODAY IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

i think everyone here completely understands this feeling! tbh what really helped me was changing my metric of 'success' so that it relied less on external factors like magazine acceptances, prizes, etc and more on what i could control in my work. i've been working on my first book length project lately and for the first while since i was approached about a contract i was really afraid, insecure, not sure if i was ready, etc. what if im not good enough, what if im too young, what if no one buys it/reads it? i was talking to a professor about this and they were like the thing about self-doubt and project-doubt is it has the same result as just plain procrastination. i was like damn did you have to put it like that????? but i realized committing to a project (or even to a writing career) meant I should put aside those inevitable feelings of doubt at least until the work is done. it might never go away, but at least i can say that it didn't stop me. i also decided i couldnt think about prizes or anything like that until everything was done, and that i needed to do the writing for its own sake. my mini goal has been to really enjoy writing the poems, instead of thinking about them as work to be done before a deadline. (can't say i've been succeeding here but i am trying!) it sounds like you already have an amazing goal for what you want your work to do—to connect emotionally with readers! and even though you can't guarantee that a reader will connect with your work (as I'm sure you know from workshopping), you can control what goes into your work. so i guess my advice is to think and write towards that goal, even if you think you're bad. whether or not you're actually bad, all you can do is write, anyway. (and im sure you're not actually bad lol)

forgot about this forum until I got my Northwestern rejection today LOL I just checked my personal spreadsheet and being reminded that they only accept 2 people really puts this rejection in perspective. hope we start seeing lots more good news on here soon!!

Hey everyone, this is my first time applying as I'm finishing my undergrad this year! I applied in poetry to Cornell, Brown, Michigan, Iowa, Vanderbilt, Michener, Northwestern and Virginia. Good luck all!!!!