Flashback
Mimi Smartypants is probably my favorite blogger out there, and I get an added kick out of the fact that she lives in Chicago, works as a medical editor, etc., etc. (She's like me, only successful!) Although she writes anonymously, she did an interview with the Sun-Times last year, in which I discovered that she's also from Elgin and attended Knox College (I didn't, but I thought about it). So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I read this:
In the middle of Topics in Calamity Physics, I took a weird break and read books of poetry by two of my favorites, August Kleinzahler and Aaron Anstett.
And yet I almost fell off my chair. Aaron Anstett? People read him? People who know he is? Now I'm dying to know if we all had the same creative writing teacher, or if Aaron's fame is actually extends beyond the walls of our classroom.
In the middle of Topics in Calamity Physics, I took a weird break and read books of poetry by two of my favorites, August Kleinzahler and Aaron Anstett.
And yet I almost fell off my chair. Aaron Anstett? People read him? People who know he is? Now I'm dying to know if we all had the same creative writing teacher, or if Aaron's fame is actually extends beyond the walls of our classroom.
posted by Madame Defarge at 10:52 AM
3 Comments:
There's no picture of her anywhere is there? I remember working with a girl a few years older than us at the library. She was a rather homely woman with long straight blonde hair, always in a pony tail with dark glasses. She was a former student of said creative writing teacher, and I could have sworn she went to Knox college. Can't for the life of me remember her name, but she was an Anstett fan as well. Curious.
She doesn't do photos, but the article from last year said she was 33, so I don't think we were in school at the same time. I remember several Knox people coming back for the January writing workshop at Judson, but I don't really remember which ones. I think the one you're talking about was named Jean (but who knows where I got that, either).
Yeah, Jean sounds right.
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