I just agreed to be blog editor for 32 Magazine, and so here starts a new venture for me.
I confess that I am quite nervous about this new position I am taking on with 32 Poems. I confess that I am afraid I’ll mess it up somehow, whatever “it” is.
I confess I don’t have an MFA, nor am I moving to get one. I may even be against getting an MFA, at least for me. But that might be a racket.
I confess the lack of an MFA makes me feel somehow unworthy of opportunities. But that is not what I am committed to. I am committed to opportunities and possibilities for everyone.
I confess I hated poetry once. I felt like I didn’t understand it, at all, and that poets were inferior somehow for writing it.
I confess I do not believe “William Shaksper” of Stratford-on-Avon was a poet. I believe the Earl of Oxford Edward Devere was. This is my own opinion.
I confess knew putting quotes in that previous confession was superfluous. I was having fun with another Tuesday confession Kelli Russell Agodon had.
I confess I do not know how to end this post. I will end it here.
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Not having an MFA makes me way more interested. I think there is way too much groupthink in the MFA crowd and love the diversity you bring! Can’t wait to see more of your eye.
I’m not exactly sure how you can say Shakespeare wasn’t a poet. Anyway, good luck!
Excellent! Nice post!
Gary — what I meant was that I don’t think the works of William Shakespeare was written by the man William Shaksper of Stratford-on-Avon, but that WS was a pen name for the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward DeVere. I definitely think the poet was exceptional. Thanks!