July Westhale talks with Matthew Zapruder in the latest installment of hello, typewriter. JULY WESTHALE: I would like to start today at the origin: do you have a memory or an aha moment that informed you that you loved poetry? Do you have a moment when you started writing poetry? MATTHEW ZAPRUDER: I was a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the early Read More
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A column by July Westhale
MOTHER F-ING AWESOME: PRIORITIZING WRITING AFTER THE MFA
What a lark! You finished two or three years of intensive Creative Writing at the institution of your choice! Congratulations, you have a Masters in Fine Arts! Now that the (hopefully) glitzy and glam-y lifestyle of an underfunded graduate student is over, you are faced with the deluge of questions from well-intentioned neighbors, family members, Read More