Comments on: Bohemia of Finances (pt. 4) http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/03/bohemia-of-finances-pt-4/ Tue, 21 May 2013 08:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jms http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/03/bohemia-of-finances-pt-4/comment-page-1/#comment-105875 jms Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:35:53 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=24663#comment-105875 Oh. Thanks. Was wondering what studies. I’m not sure I would read the VIDA ones that way. Although I am going to go back and look. Wondering if one does a sort of VIDA count using a random sample on last year in “experimental” what happens. I would hope to be pleasantly surprised. I want “experimental” to be “better.” Not worse.

I agree with you. Belladonna is amazing! I wish I had Belladonna in my backyard. I say this all the time. Stopping self from writing long paragraph on how much I adore the multi-media/platformed approach of Belladonna. Books! Conferences! Reading series! Chapbooks! Etc!

And, although there are no #s on this, I suspect most MFA programs are more female than male. Perhaps way more. Ugh. MFA makes my brain hurt. If the MFA admitted its femaleness “at the true level of their productivity and influence poetry would wind up being a largely female world and the men would leave.” Or not get MFA. Is this one more of the many reasons everyone hate on the MFA so much?

Brandon is one of the big men in the Bay area! But also the obvs are Michael Palmer. Kit Robinson. Bob Haas. Dean Young. Alan Bernheimer. Joseph Lease. Stephen Ratcliffe. Etc. You know this list. Thank you though for asking “who are the big men?” Thank you for “Being Female.”

]]> By: Eileen Myles http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/03/bohemia-of-finances-pt-4/comment-page-1/#comment-105866 Eileen Myles Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:10:33 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=24663#comment-105866 The sex parity was suggested in the vida pie-charts though yeah I remember a different result in the ones you produced. But I was responding to the ones I’d seen lately. I do mean in my experience everywhere I’ve taught the workshops are packed with women. Maybe that’s who takes my workshops but that’s the case at Naropa which is why I’d get enraged when some guy would get up and prop up the same old sexist world view to a tent full, largely, of young female students. Aren’t most writing programs getting most of their applications from women? Most of the graduate students in Missoula where I last taught, were female. I haven’t done research but this is what it seems to me. in the interview with Brandon I was thinking of many female driven scenes like the Belladonna one in New York which seems to be the dominant set in the poetry world I occupy here. Juliana and Dodie seem to be central figures in the Bay Area scene. Who are the big men?

]]> By: jms http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/03/bohemia-of-finances-pt-4/comment-page-1/#comment-105822 jms Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:03:35 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=24663#comment-105822 What recent numbers analysis shows supposed sex parity, but also that the majority of people writing poetry are women?

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