“On Accepting—and Leaving—Mentors” by Jayne Benjulian

A piece by alum Jayne Benjulian (poetry, ’13) appears at The Agni Blog:

You must know, M— said when I submitted my MFA thesis, the sonnets about your daughter are magnificent. Two of them promptly appeared in a venerable journal. A year later, R— , a publisher, critiqued my manuscript. What might be the most difficult for you is that I suggest taking out all but one of the daughter poems … their inclusion makes for a rather predictable book. I deleted them.

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