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_refugee_  ·  3861 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Where IS Hubski, anyway?

maus5, reborn as ando, because I remember that shit. As for bfx's correction, well, my personal opinions at the time weren't favorable.

How do you like Austin - or do I remember that you don't?





user-inactivated  ·  3861 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I adore it.

_refugee_  ·  3860 days ago  ·  link  ·  

OK, because it's one place I've been thinking about seriously visiting - there are two really good MFA programs in Austin, and I hear it's a cute liberal mecca. Not like the rest of Texas, necessarily. I'm glad to hear you like it!

user-inactivated  ·  3860 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Southwestern have an MFA? Or St. Ed's? I mean I suppose UT probably does, don't know if it's any good.

Austin is WONDERFUL. To take a random example, an AMA made it to the front page today from a bored Austin food truck owner who exclusively cooks artisan grilled cheeses. Because that was his dream.

_refugee_  ·  3852 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hahaha, the Michener Center for Writers (in Austin) is run by UT and if it's not in the top 10 MFA programs for poetry it's certainly in the top 25; it's a fully funded program. So it's very, very good. UT at Austin also has a program (yes they're 2 different programs even if by same university?) that is also very good. One is a 3 year program and the other is 2, I know it sounds crazy but yes, there really are two of them.

user-inactivated  ·  3861 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    maus5

One of the reasons I ditched that identity. Really annoying when a famous person you haven't heard of uses a name similar to yours and people keep connecting non-existent dots.