MFA (Me Freaking About)

100 page anthology--25 poets

Reading journal over 8 individual books plus Norton Anthology of Poetry (200 pages double-spaced)

25 new poems, 20 of them revised

6 new poetic exercises

45 pages of fiction (3 short stories and 1 flash fiction piece)

Critical analysis of Elizabeth Bishop: Elegy and Extravagance in "Crusoe in England"

Critical analysis of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Stevens "Anecdote of a Jar" As Ekphrastic Poetry

Selling a Short Story: Dennis Lehane's "Till Gwen"

Outline of summer chapbook (10 pages plus background notes)

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Two jobs, two children, two family members in college besides me--two cars, two cats, two houses--and two hairs left on my head!


This is finally all finished and in the mail/turned in.

I am not going to read or write for a week. I need the rest.

After that I will post some good news about next semester.