Thursday, April 10, 2008
Positive
I just registered for classes next fall. My workshop professor will be the fabulous Jonathan Ames. My lit seminar will be with Jeffery Renard Allen. Shadow narrative. If there were a pregnancy test for excitement, mine would show a big pink plus sign.
Shelley’s lit seminar has been outstanding. Already I’m dreading the end. I love our class discussions, writing for her every week, her engaged feedback. Reading her comments used to make me a little verklempt. The first time I saw her handwriting on my work I welled up. When she likes what I do, or when a crit with Philip Lopate goes well, I feel huge, full with what I’m making. This experience is one I worked hard for, but at the same time it feels like an amazing gift. It’s not so much “needing grad school” it’s that I wanted this world, these relationships and community. To be in it, and then of it. I’m in love with everyone.
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