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7 Innovative Collections From Poets Without MFAs

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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? 



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