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At Georgia Tech, poetry is courseware for engineers (via)

"Poetry is a human thing," says Lux. "I never understood how it got usurped into an elitist thing — something you had to be initiated into and only a small group of people were smart enough to get it."
Atwood tells Glasgow University creative writing students, go get a proper job.

The backstory of Marina Lewycka (A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian) makes interesting reading.

Bookbrowse has a Q&A with Claire Messud.

K & N who tell me this blog is "awfully boring" and the others who would love to tell me that, hopefully these will mollify you.

This blog is boring??? :O

And Poetry at Georiga Tech??? :O Didn't know it at all!!!

Tell you what L, this site is like the small book shop on the busy Main Street. Lot of hustle and bustle on the street, but once you enter the book shop it is calm and serene and fills you with joy.

Krithiga: Why does my head imagine a krithiga-like figure crouched among motherboards with a feather-quill in her hand? :D

Chenthil: Very touched. Thanks for the way you put it as well.

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