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The Poet-Scholar

Session 150 | Thursday, 7:00–8:15 p.m. A special session. Presiding: Hillary Gravendyk, Pomona Coll. Speakers: Julie Carr, U of Colorado, Boulder; Heather Dubrow, Fordham U; Margaret Ronda, Rutgers U; Jennifer Scappettone, U of Chicago; Juliana M. Spahr, Mills C; Barrett Watten, Wayne State U

  1. afteriwasdead
    Laura Mullen@afteriwasdead
    mla13.org/150 #mla13 #S150
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 13:14:46
  2. kqandrews
    Kimberly Q. Andrews@kqandrews
    At #S150, the Poet-Scholar. Starting #mla13 off with a very-relevant-to-dissertation bang.
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 15:54:54
  3. amndw2
    Amanda Watson@amndw2
    Now at #s150, "The Poet-Scholar." (Something I once aspired to be, and still do, sort of.) #MLA13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:00:41
  4. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    Panel on poet-scholars at #mla13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:04:37
  5. kqandrews
    Kimberly Q. Andrews@kqandrews
    @ncecire Oh hah, of course we're at the same panel. I should have sat at the "tweeters" table. #mla13 #s150
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:06:14
  6. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    @kqandrews High five.
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:14:09
  7. accommodatingly
    Stephen Burt@accommodatingly
    Panelists: J Carr M Ronda H Dubrow J Spahr J Scappettone B Watten
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:06:37
  8. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    J Spahr: nothing unique about my story; prof job, then job in the "mfa bubble economy." #mla13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:08:15
  9. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    Spahr: creative writing once treated like "candy," delicious too much will make you sick. Became unregulated as students became "consumers."
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:10:16
  10. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    Spahr: "Creativewritingization" due to student demand (b/c "easier" and/or b/c writing has greater contact with an imagined audience) #mla13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:12:02
  11. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    Spahr: MFA programs couldn't pay their profs so little if it weren't for all the MFA-holders they turn out. Bennington fired tenure #mla13 +
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:13:06
  12. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    -line profs by claiming that they preferred "working artists" (as opposed to non-working profs?) #mla13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:13:45
  13. accommodatingly
    Stephen Burt@accommodatingly
    Spahr: MFA glut enables low pay for comp instructors. #MLA13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:13:13
  14. kqandrews
    Kimberly Q. Andrews@kqandrews
    The elephant in the room at #s150: changing notions of autonomy and freedom. #mla13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:14:10
  15. accommodatingly
    Stephen Burt@accommodatingly
    Spahr: but "creativewritingization" enables much more interesting hybrids of research & creative work, esp among undergrads. #MLA13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:14:27
  16. kqandrews
    Kimberly Q. Andrews@kqandrews
    Poet-critic vs poet-scholar vs poet-critic? #s150 #mla13 (ready, set, Charles Olson!)
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:15:14
  17. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    .@barrettwatten: I'm a poet-critic and a poet-teacher, but what is a "poet-scholar"? First encounter with one was with Charles Olson. #mla13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:15:19
  18. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    RT @kqandrews: The elephant in the room at #s150: changing notions of autonomy and freedom. #mla13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:15:31
  19. accommodatingly
    Stephen Burt@accommodatingly
    Watten: am I a poet-scholar? poet-critic, poet-teacher, yes. Who's a poet-scholar? Olson. Talks about Olson's book West. #MLA13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:15:55
  20. accommodatingly
    Stephen Burt@accommodatingly
    Watten reads bits of Olson's West, unfamiliar to me. Sounds like Cantos Pound. #MLA13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:17:18
  21. accommodatingly
    Stephen Burt@accommodatingly
    Watten: the Olson poem sounds just like notes. How is it a poem? Sifting, arrangement. Crazy Horse died at 28. #MLA13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:18:36
  22. accommodatingly
    Stephen Burt@accommodatingly
    Watten: also reads Olson poem from West about elephant. "Anagogic vision." It sent W to Gloucester.
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:20:28
  23. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    .@barrettwatten on Olson's West: an impressive "synthesis of knowledge-claims and poetic self-discovery." #mla13 #s150
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:20:46
  24. ncecire
    Natalia Cecire@ncecire
    .@barrettwatten: But knowledge-claims crumble under pressure of self-disc; what remains is the way that lang structures itself #mla13 #s150
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:22:02
  25. kqandrews
    Kimberly Q. Andrews@kqandrews
    Knowledge claims in Olson's poetry drop away, leaving focus on formalisms. (This is a summary of the linguistic turn...) #s150 #mla13
    Thu, Jan 03 2013 16:22:13

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