When I Was the Muse
by Kate Daniels • from Five Points
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Kate Daniels
Kate Daniels teaches in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University and is currently the Director of Creative Writing.
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A "make-believe job" at the Saturday Review of Literature brings a young, aspiring writer to the verge of literary glory in Jocelyn W. Knowles's "My Interview with W. H. Auden," this week's prose feature from the Fall issue of Michigan Quarterly Review:
"I had a feeling I was not among friends but did not know what to make of it. Was it my earlier disarray? My youth? Something in my appearance? My voice? I had scarcely spoken. Perhaps Auden, who was new to America, had discovered too late the magazine was not the publication he thought it. There was a reputable one in London with a similar name. Kallman was busy with his cigarette. One, half-smoked, lay sputtering on his soup plate in bitter, acrid last gasps. Should I ask him to put it out?"
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