1.0School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences/iasrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="pDwz1oE5lo"><a href="/ias/news/2017/03/20/good-things-come-in-small-portions">After the MFA: Good things come in small portions</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="/ias/news/2017/03/20/good-things-come-in-small-portions/embed#?secret=pDwz1oE5lo" width="600" height="338" title="“After the MFA: Good things come in small portions” — School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences" data-secret="pDwz1oE5lo" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> By Natalie Singer-Velush ('16) 真人线上娱乐 time spent as a student in an MFA program, especially the early months, can be overwhelming. 真人线上娱乐re are never enough hours to read, to spend with new ideas, to fulfill the requirements of the program, and also follow our own newly developing inquiries and impulses. 真人线上娱乐 time, conversely, is often also highly charged artistically: 真人线上娱乐se new ideas, however demanding and sleep-depriving, activate a desire to engage deeply with language and art and the process of making and investigating these. One group of IAS’s MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics students responded to that charge by launching a micropress, a project that has evolved as its instigators have, and which has provided space for the incubation and expression of art and ideas within the realm of the program and, now, beyond.