@artkavanagh I have been thinking a lot about this question of poetic career here in the States, especially as it connects to the MFA as it has taken hold as the de facto professional standard for being considered a poet—at least by other similarly situated poets within the literary establishment. I don’t know yet precisely what I think, but it is troubling to me. Not that there should be a thing as a poetic career, but that the legitimacy of the form it takes should be so thoroughly dictated by academia.