helloooooo

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I know this is an old thread, but I'm new here, and hope that what I have to say will be of interest anyway.

I considered a grad writing program, but decided against it because I wanted the community of writers without the formality of classes, and without the competition that could happen among the student writers. I don't know for sure what else I was afraid of, but I didn't want to be trained to be a professional poet. I'm sure the grad writing programs are fine though; they kept producing published poets --I was accepted at three grad writing programs, but I didn't go. I studied the philosophy of science instead.

I want to be in the company of poets, but not in a relationship where those poets are evaluating my work and I would feel compelled to try to impress them with mine.

Good luck to you, though. Maybe you're already in a grad program now; if so, I hope it's better than what you expected.