“Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.” IfsRealWould BeProgramRadioGenrePoetry IsAfghanistanHousewifeReal Housewives Author:Eliza Griswold
“Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.” MatterFormTermTeachProgramGenreWorkshops Author:Juliana Spahr
“They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego!” IfsWorldWritingFictionAcceptingTeachingChangedStudentsEgoModelsConceptsProgramGenreFinding YourselfFilmmakingPublishingAcademyAntiquityAdjusting Author:Tod Goldberg
“I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their frustrations have absolutely nothing to do with the programs they're attending. They have to do with the growing pains that they're undergoing as writers and with the growing pains that our own genre is constantly undergoing.” WantCountryPainCasesGrowingStudentsProgramGenreFrustrationEmailTransfersAbsolutely NothingAttendingIowaGrowing PainsGenre Is Author:John D'Agata
“I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.” PeopleSaidAttentionFictionProgramClaimsPaidGenreGraduates Author:Sandra Cisneros
“The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have to choose your genre.” WritingFactsCreativeProgramGenreCreative Writing Author:Robert Hass