so i'm not going to awp this year. it sucks! i'm going to miss seeing a lot of you. not all of you. some of you i don't like.
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oh the crazy folks! i love going to awp because it's full of crazy writers. CRAZY! crazy, crazy, crazy.
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i'm going to miss the insecurities and nervousness.
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i'm going to miss picking up this book. though i've told a friend that he needs (please!) to pick me up a copy. i don't want anything else from awp. just a copy of this book.
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i'm going to miss chatting with mfa students. i love doing that! i'm always so curious about their writing, their programs, their plans for post-mfa life.
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i'm going to miss the ONE POEM FESTIVAL.
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i'm going to miss some of my favorite bloggers: c. dale, corn shake, oliver, steve fellner, and crazy crazy reb.
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i'm not going to miss collin kelley though.
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i'm going to miss the terrible dancing at the "dance" parties. oh the humanity!
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i'm going to miss meeting poets whose work i've enjoyed in journals or online.
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i'm going to miss the star-struck.
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i'm going to miss the book fair.
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sigh.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
5 comments:
I'm going to miss you.
I'm going to miss it all too. Maybe we can just post fake AWP moments together...as if we were really there.
Damn, you're going to miss the off-site reading I organized called "The Trouble with Eduardo."
Me too, Eduardo. I miss the crazy and the bookshopping already.
Next year in DC?
not going this yr, either. We can liveblog about NOT going...yeah...that would be exciting...er, um...maybe not. :(
sigh. i would have liked to have seen your latest scarf! xo
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