Posted on 06/13/2017 6:59:13 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
Dyjak did not include anything remotely approaching time-honored verse as part of the materials in the Advanced Creative Writing Poetry course, Kikkert claims. Instead, Dyjak assigned materials focused on lesbians, illicit sexual relationships, incest and frequent swearing.
At one point during the course, Dyjak also allegedly flashed her breasts to the whole class in the course of showing off a tattoo on her back.
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Help! I need eye bleach
To posit that wisdom is only acquired by sitting in a college classroom discounts the wisdom of most people in history. One wonders how wise King Solomon could have become if only he had taken a modern free-form art, a Chicano culture studies or a slam poetry class at Evergreen College. Just think of the great works Mozart might have produced had his parents the forethought to enroll him in a watercolor painting class at the local community college. And then there are the millions of wise people through the thousands of years who never attended college and whose names will never be known.
While poetry may be an art form, it's practice is largely a hobby, just as one would expect to be the outcome of the other curiccula mentioned above. Your assertion about the relationship between art and truth is an unfounded opinion. A certain amount of navel-gazing is understandable, but one has to eat.
A parade of straw men. Boring. Got anything else?
34D?
At that advanced age, more like 34 LONG.
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