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7 Innovative Collections From Poets Without MFAs

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This list won’t be a screed against the MFA. Other than this one sentence, I won’t write “MFA industrial complex.” Almost a century old, a master’s degree in creative writing now seems inescapable—to be a writer, you need one. While I don’t find that logic persuasive, most modern writers emerge from or eventually become entangled with the fine arts degree. But what happens when writers create without these institutional pressures? 



In the world of prose, I think of Fran Ross’s Oreo, so o

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