The Admin Poetry Workshop meets this weekend in the Copy Room while the Admin Team finishes the Association of Imaginary Schools Imaginary Annual Report.
This “Writer’s Weekend” features no application fee, no letters of recommendation, no institutional support, no publication record, no inside reference, no interview outfit, no white hair required, no white accent needed, no prep school pedigree, no hotel room conference interview where you sit on the bed, no proof that you have already attended a writer’s workshop, no inside candidate, no tuition payment, no networking, no name dropping, no wages lost, no notes to the babysitter, no creepy administrator whose job is unclear, no backstory you didn’t hear, no bikini for the pool that is either too frumpy or too slutty, no poetry about drops of rain on leaves at your parents’ country house, no flattering the featured poet, no vegetarian option that is not really vegetarian but tastes better so the meat-eaters take it all, no drinking with the married featured poet at the rate of a man when you are a woman, no overtures from the married featured poet in the hallway, no groping from the married featured poet, no hahahahaha from the featured poet, no waiting for the poet to read your manuscript which he never does, no listening to the featured poet praise Greg, pre-ordained star student, no assumption that you are a server at the reception, no tears in the utility room.
Unfortunately, the pretentious girl you always run into (because your privileged world is pretty small) will be there, wearing her signature long earrings, and she will read a sexy anguished poem that some people think is really deep and some people make fun of. Association paper and pens are provided free/stolen.
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