Really the only thing you must read about the MFA programs/Poets & Writers debacle is a thing M. Kitchell posted over at HTMLGIANT. He didn’t get into any of the programs he liked, decided he didn’t need to, struck out on his own, and figures there are things writers ought to do whether or not they’re in school, and those things more than any school determine what kind of writer person they end up being. Go read his other stuff, too, because he’s good and you ought to.
I messed up and forgot to mention this: tonight at 7PM, the only Molly McGillicuddy and Meredith Jordan from Emerson or anywhere will be Breakwater readers at Brookline Booksmith alongside Noreen Cleffi, Bryan Coller, Natasha Hakimi, and Kurt Klopmeier from UMass Boston and BU. Fiction and poetry. Come see.