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I wonder what it means about american literary culture and its transmission when i consider the number of american poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. i've ended up doing that myself.

-Marilyn Hacker

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Marilyn Hacker

I wonder what it means about american literary culture and its transmission when i consider the number of american poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. i've ended up doing that myself.

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I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "how does it feel being on mainstream media? it's not often poets get on mainstream media." i said, "well i think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. the mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. they are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture."

I don't consider myself an expert in the why. i don't consider myself an expert in leadership. i consider myself a student of leadership and i consider myself a student of the why. i'm constantly learning and i'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.

You go ask any founder of any company why he or she did it, you will never hear, "i wanted to create jobs for the community" as the number one, number two, number three, number four, number five, number 10 reason for doing so. that is a result of the success the business enjoys. creating jobs is not why people start businesses. creating jobs is not how people innovate in business. it's not how they compete.

Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. wonder is not an obligatory element in the search for truth. we can seek truth without wonder's assistance. but seek is all we'll do; there will be no finding. unless wonder descends, unlocks us ... truth is unable to enter. wonder may be the aura of truth, the halo of it. or something even closer. wonder may be the caress of truth, touching our very skin.

I just said let's get some poets on tv. and when they said that sounded unlikely, i made it worse. i said, no man, i want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. some latino poets who barely speak english and asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. it was luck nad being in the right place. i wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.

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