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April Fallon |
April received her doctoral degree
from UL Lafayette in 1995, and her career here (as poet, theorist, and guitarist and lead
singer for the redoubtable band Hand Bob the Spoon) is still vivid in the minds
of her many fans and admirers—that is, everyone who got to know her. She’s
proceeded smartly to an Assistant Professor job at Kentucky State University,
where she received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in February of
2002. We asked April to comment on her experience here. Here’s what she wrote:
I really value my experience
in the creative writing program at UL Lafayette. The program and the professors
allowed me a great deal of room to explore the possibilities of my writing,
giving me feedback and guidance without demanding I write in a certain style,
and without being overly concerned with whether my poetry was marketable; in
other words, I felt very certain my professors were primarily concerned that I
progressed as an artist first and foremost. The program also gave me a
well-rounded background in English graduate study so as not to limit my employment
prospects to creative writing positions only. Also, having a large program with
many other student writers of different genres provided an exciting writing
community I hadn’t found before my time in Lafayette (even though I received an
MFA prior to coming to UL), nor have I found such a lively writing community
since.
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