iStockPhoto / Getty Images Jacob Scheier is a poet, essayist and journalist and past winner of the Governor-General’s Literary Award. His most recent book is Letter From Brooklyn .
Grad school almost killed me. Hackneyed? Maybe. Hyperbole? No. I was hospitalized twice during my three years at The Ohio State University. I officially graduated in May.
I anticipated my MFA being stressful. I did not expect to barely make it out alive, although perhaps I should have seen that coming.Over the nine years I have spent in academia, as an undergrad and graduate student-teacher, I have endured bouts of both […]
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