links for 2011-04-14

• The Book Bench: Review Poems in 140 Characters (But Don’t Call them Tweets) : The New Yorker
  'Hands-down, Martial wrote the shortest, harshest reviews in the Western canon: “His verse was meant to strike me low / But, since he wrote it—who will know?”'

  Good one, Martial.

• 5 Alternatives To a Creative Writing MFA – GalleyCat
  "We know that for many of our readers, the student loan debt load for a creative writing MFA would be unrealistic in this ongoing recession. Below, we’ve listed five alternatives to creative writing programs…"

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