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Whew. It’s over.

By Patricia Smith

Finished with 3rd MFA residency. Incredibly tired. Just back from lobster bake thingie where no lobsters were visibly baked. Ten days in creative nirvana. Maine cooperated, kinda (rain). Shunned TV and most internet, have no idea at all what’s going on in the world. Got some incredibly luscious news, but can’t tell ya yet. My Spenserian stanzas worked! Fell in love with May Swenson and fell in love again with June Jordan. Thrilled to learn the connection between Sanchez and Bogan. Third-semester critical essay looms. Studying quite intensively with the inimitable Annie Finch. Woman never met a dactyl she didn’t like. I will be worked mercilessly. It will be exquisite. Let’s get that party started. Stonecoast feels like my home now. I’m tired. Really tired. Wanted to say hi to you guys. Tired. Six-hour drive looms. Tired.
Tired.

2007-07-15

Comments (3)

  • On July 16, 2007 at 10:21 am NT wrote:

    And what is the connex between Sanchez and Bogan? That sounds pretty interesting.
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  • On July 16, 2007 at 4:51 pm dwayne wrote:

    hey patricia,
    did you read the sanchez interviews in her collected interviews? with joyce joyce. i think that’s her name. anyway, there is a cool interview in there where she talks about taking a class with bogan. if i remember right. glad to hear you enjoyed the experience. i miss you already.
    dwayne
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  • On July 17, 2007 at 4:19 pm Tara Betts wrote:

    Yeah, glad to hear you had a great time at the MFA program. I’ve been thinking about reading May Swenson and May Sarton back to back myself. It is a trip that Sonia Sanchez often recalls Louise Bogan as her teacher that pushed her to do at least one form. Sanchez chose haiku. Dwayne-I believe you’re talking about Joyce A. Joyce’s collection Ijala on Third World Press. Some good stuff in there. Someone needs to do a collection on her more recent poems too. You know I love some June Jordan too. Right now, I’m just trying to read all the books that have piled up in my bedroom.
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Posted in Group Blog, Uncategorized on Sunday, July 15th, 2007 by Patricia Smith.

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