John Bensko
American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Bensko is an American poet who taught in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, along with his wife, the fiction writer Cary Holladay. Career Bensko has an MFA in creative writing from The University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in 20th-century poetry and narrative technique from Florida State University . He was a student of Thomas Rabbitt in poetry and Barry Hannah in fiction, and classmate of Clark Powell: Our weekly workshops were simple - take the latest purple mimeographed worksheet of student's poems, and have everyone critique the poems. I once wrote a four-line poem that had an epigraph from Moby Dick that was almost an entire paragraph. I read the poem. Silence. Then everybody started laughing. It was that bad. Another student named John Bensko made a comment that broke everybody up: "This poem is a bit top-heavy."
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