“My list of dissertators is bigger than your list.”
Thus the egos
of faculty infectious with
puffy ambition
swell and redden,
bloated and boasting.
And thus they proudly brand
would-be careers with few buyers
in our heartless markets.
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But don’t forget the farmers
who take their work to heart:
plowing through dissertation chapters,
planting true seeds but not false hopes
with grad students they learn from and with.
And how about the programs that attempt
to diversify by rotating crops --
Professor? But maybe arts administrator, technical writer, editor.. . .
Are these new carrots wholesome food?
Can this new menu sustain and be sustained?
Bio
Heather Dubrow is the John D. Boyd, S.J., Chair in Poetic Imagination at Fordham University. The institutions at which she has previously taught include Carleton College, the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Among her publications are seven monographs, as well as a book-length collection and two chapbooks of her own poetry.
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