2021 Applicants Forum

[shakyboots]

1 minute ago, cecilia 2 said:

If you are looking for a blissful ignorance, you'll find plenty of people who say Iowa might send out acceptances by snail mail. 

I don't think you realize your writing is bad and your soul is ugly. If you ever trick a program into accepting you, you'll be found out. No one will like you. Nobody wants to read someone who thinks like you do. What a worthless, hateful little bore.

[teasel]

14 minutes ago, shakyboots said:

Is the Writers' Workshop sending out acceptance letters but not calling in some cases this cycle? I saw arguing over this, but no definitive answer.

I'm guessing that calls went out and that we're waiting on snail mail for waitlists & rejections at this point, but this is really just speculation on my part. Apparently someone received an acceptance call in late March last year. I would tag the post/person, but it was from quite awhile ago! 

[shakyboots]

Just now, cecilia 2 said:

Not quite no one. I don’t entirely rule out someone who wants truth. Such a person is the only one who will manage to write well anyway.

Your rhetoric resembles Goebbels talking to himself in the mirror trying really hard to convince himself he's right.

[fireflystasis]

Things are heating up in the grad school application fandom.

[shakyboots]

Just now, cecilia 2 said:

I should be so lucky to have Goebbel’s skill in public speaking. It takes great rhetoric to make wrong sound plausible. There is no better exercise than devil’s advocacy. But the truth is I’m talentless. If I’m threatening, it is because the things I say are actually true.

We don't find you threatening, we think you're a twerp because you purposefully invade a space where people are trying to encourage and inform each other so you can spread negativity as if it were gospel or fact to soothe your own failures, like if we're failures, then that makes it okay. You're pathetic.

[shakyboots]

Just now, cecilia 2 said:

Here, people try to encourage. People do not try to inform. Not here. 

Then go away??

[Ydrl]

I swear, the troll sounds like my delusional father. It's really concerning. That you Bryan?

[Jjayy]

1 hour ago, cecilia 2 said:

But the truth is I’m talentless.

We been knew, sis.

[babypoet2k]

i kind of already put up my goodbye forum post but i lowkey missed yall so i came back. all this troll bullshit and their absolute hatred and targeted attacks at certain people is shitty. it's despicable, and if i knew enough about computers i would say block their ip address or something. 

to conclude, fuck what they say. yall are glorious people. this forum has been lovely. i may be thinking about writing a poem out of all the bullshit that has been spewed into this forum, and someday when i am bored enough, i will. until then, who wants to come be sad about brown R's with me (even though I knew it wasn't the place for me, getting an ivy rejection hurt)

[CrankyGinger]

5 minutes ago, Ydrl said:

I swear, the troll sounds like my delusional father. It's really concerning. That you Bryan?

Lol. Honestly, it just seems like a lot of sad effort to constantly get new screen names just to be an obtuse jerk. 

[Ydrl]

Just now, CrankyGinger said:

Lol. Honestly, it just seems like a lot of sad effort to constantly get new screen names just to be an obtuse jerk. 

The delusional talk, the Shakespeare weirdness, the constant putting people down, the unwillingness to go away, the small dick energy, the obsession with quotes...If, by the slightest chance, this is my unstable dad (he heavily disapproves of me going for my MFA in poetry) I'll feel really really bad for all of you.

[shakyboots]

Has anybody heard from ASU for Creative Writing?

[oubukibun]

2 minutes ago, Ydrl said:

The delusional talk, the Shakespeare weirdness, the constant putting people down, the unwillingness to go away, the small dick energy, the obsession with quotes...If, by the slightest chance, this is my unstable dad (he heavily disapproves of me going for my MFA in poetry) I'll feel really really bad for all of you.

Hahahahaha!

I just laughed much too much at this in this Starbucks.

Perfection.

[Ydrl]

3 minutes ago, cecilia 2 said:

Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.

Not as mad as you, discount dad.

[mrhamlet]

3 hours ago, lenagator1997 said:

Yeah! I would have expected my angsty son Hamlet to come waltzing in here by now too! Seems fitting if he showed up! (P.S: new here, I'm a MFA Creative Nonfiction human!)

i am right here dad

[lunch]

1 minute ago, babypoet2k said:

i kind of already put up my goodbye forum post but i lowkey missed yall so i came back. all this troll bullshit and their absolute hatred and targeted attacks at certain people is shitty. it's despicable, and if i knew enough about computers i would say block their ip address or something. 

to conclude, fuck what they say. yall are glorious people. this forum has been lovely. i may be thinking about writing a poem out of all the bullshit that has been spewed into this forum, and someday when i am bored enough, i will. until then, who wants to come be sad about brown R's with me (even though I knew it wasn't the place for me, getting an ivy rejection hurt)

I'll be sad about Brown with you. ?

I do want to emphasize your point about a program not being the place for you. Obviously, I'd love to have been accepted into Brown (and part of what stings about a rejection is that in writing your SOP and looking up all these places, you sort of fantasize about attending the school and living in whatever city), but I can also honestly say that having read the work of their poetry faculty, the poetry I've written and the themes I've been interested in and their more theoretical, academic poetry don't particularly overlap. It's hard not to take the rejection hard, especially when it comes with that Ivy name, but I also know that there are candidates who would gel better with their style than I would.

I'm still waiting on one other program, but of the six(ish) programs I've heard back from, the one I got into has a gay faculty member whose work was foundational to me when I first encountered it. I spent my last three years of workshops trying to carve out my own sort of queer poetry in classes that had no insight into the culture or its literature, and it always felt like I was sort of working in the dark, with little sense of how my work would actually land for the virtual audience I was writing for. And while I didn't get into any of the big name programs I applied to, it's incredibly validating to have the one acceptance I have received be from a poet who's working in the space I want to be in. That faculty member is a great fit for the kind of writing I want to develop, and I have a much better chance of being a good fit for that program. 

I know the idea of not fitting with a program often sounds like a euphemistic way to try and kindly reject someone, but I do also believe it's true, and I hope that we all remember that just because our work might not be right for a specific program and might not speak to the admissions committees of various schools, that can be as much a reflection of their whims and fancies and obsessions and biases as it is a reflection of your work.

[Starbuck420]

32 minutes ago, shakyboots said:

Has anybody heard from ASU for Creative Writing?

There are acceptances and waitlists for fiction and poetry in Draft, unfortunately

[helterskelter]

Hey all, I'm brand new here so not sure how to access Draft - has anyone seen or heard of any acceptances at UVA? I haven't heard anything from Rutgers Newark so I'm assuming that is a rejection, UVA is my last hope! 

[NLake]

1 hour ago, shakyboots said:

Has anybody heard from ASU for Creative Writing?

I got waitlisted via email last week. They basically said they don’t share waitlist rankings outside the top three, and that those people were notified specifically. There are five acceptances per genre so I’m guessing outside those accepted and those in the top three waitlist spots, the rest of us are pretty much getting a “thanks but no”. Lol. 

[lenagator1997]

1 hour ago, mrhamlet said:

i am right here dad

Cool, being a ghost might give me some writing inspiration then! "My hour is almost come,
When I to sulph'rous and tormenting flames..."

[Boomer not Ok]

1 hour ago, Ydrl said:

The delusional talk, the Shakespeare weirdness, the constant putting people down, the unwillingness to go away, the small dick energy, the obsession with quotes...If, by the slightest chance, this is my unstable dad (he heavily disapproves of me going for my MFA in poetry) I'll feel really really bad for all of you.

Not sure what's up with their "Cecilia 2" handle. I mean, if we're all delusional dotards, shouldn't then "Cecilia" be "Cordelia?"

[lenagator1997]

2 minutes ago, cecilia 2 said:

I tell thee truly, herald. Those words sounded like straight from the "out, out, brief candle" speech. Google showed me I was wrong. 

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing."

Honestly I should have just looked for this passage in my huge Bedford textbook I still have laying around! I do not miss that Shakespeare class!

 

[Stardust RnRoll HiWay]

Questioning my sanity here - Universities do, at times, call to let you know you have been accepted, correct? Anyone else been in this situation where you have received a call but your online portal has yet to be updated?

[CrankyGinger]

6 minutes ago, Stardust RnRoll HiWay said:

Questioning my sanity here - Universities do, at times, call to let you know you have been accepted, correct? Anyone else been in this situation where you have received a call but your online portal has yet to be updated?

Mine didn't get updated immediately. Took a couple days before I got the official email about a decision on my portal. How long has it been since your call?

[Boomer not Ok]

17 minutes ago, cecilia 2 said:

I was going to use Celia from As You Like It. Then I decided to leave my identify ambiguous for a few posts. Hence, Cecilia. 

Just not sure about the Bardic references. Isn't the slave accompanying the Roman general during his march of triumph along the rose-strewn streets of Rome on his way to the Forum a better metaphor? I mean the slave who whispers over and over into the general's ear amidst the din and clamor of the adoring crowds, "This is all an illusion, you are not a god, you are nothing...?"

Edited March 11, 2021 by Boomer not Ok