News from Jan La Perle (MFA '06), who's now in the Phd program
at Oklahoma State University:

I like the program, it's friendly, but unfortunately there aren't very
many poets. Film studies and TESL are big programs here and take up
much of the English Dept. My students are polite, and more respectful
as I gain confidence as a teacher, they call me ma'am and I like that.
I worked on "House" quite a bit this summer, sent it out to 3
contests. I'll send it out to more, but it's really expensive, as you
know. I've met Lisa Lewis, but I won't be taking a workshop until the Spring.
Ai is teaching one now, but I'm, instead, taking a seminar on Marianne Moore
& Elizabeth Bishop which I'm really enjoying.
You know, as much as I didn't think I would, I really do miss
Carbondale and my friends there. But I'm doing my best at
making Stillwater & OSU a good place for me.