Sturgeon's Law

First of all, congratulations to Jeffery for having his poem on Poetry Daily. Appearing either there or Verse Daily is one of my publication goals for the coming year. I realize some people think it's gauche to have publication goals. Tough.

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So I cut down the number of MFA programs I'm applying to to three: Washington University - St. Louis, Vanderbilt, and Wyoming. As I think I mentioned before, I want some sort of social network in the places I'm going in addition to a good program, and apparently I don't have that many social networks. I was also going to apply at Johns Hopkins (though I don't know that many people in Baltimore), but the higher cost of application and a bunch of annoying busy-work regulations about how you have to send materials pissed me off enough that I decided not to give them any money. I've gotten most of the necessary materials off, though there are a couple things I still need to do for the Wyoming and Vanderbilt applications, which aren't due until February 1. I'll post more updates when I hear back.