While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and still pass as something hybrid-y enough for my poetry workshops, I was looking for models, for forebears.
John D'AgataI felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was going to save me, and so I moved myself across the country for grad school and yet still didn't have a home. It was upsetting. And I know that's a common feeling.
John D'AgataPedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.
John D'AgataYou create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.
John D'Agata