This "masculinist logic" infected the classroom. Criticism had always been central to the Workshop experience, and it was harsh by design. Engle believed "that young writers overestimated their creative powers, a flaw that only astringent criticism could overcome." Cisneros put it more simply: "There was no love." The poet Robert Bly described how "the aggression […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:29PM on April 26, 2019