Further to my earlier post, I do remember that when this fizzing, buzzing,
and by now *confident group of women aged between 38 and 65 studied American
post-war poetry (from Olson on) for a semester alongside a much younger
group of 'regular' Masters students, we found that only one, male, student
had as much to say as we did, and the young lecturer seemed almost
intimidated .... We took a conscious decision to cool it.
joanna
> On the other hand, my experience in the (similar) Newcastle MA in Writing
> Poetry, where quite coincidentally that entire intake was made up of women
> returners, most with jobs as well as their domestic responsibilities, was
> that we were all, individually and as a unit, fizzing with creativity and
> excitement.
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> joanna
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