Baltimore Sun article on new Writing Seminars professors

Colleges & Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-to.writers21aug21,0,23244.story?page=1%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-to.writers21aug21,0,23244.story?page=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>"Salter, the author of six volumes of verse and most recently a poetry instructor at Massachusetts' Mount Holyoke College, and her husband, Brad Leithauser, a celebrated novelist, poet and critic in his own right, are about to become the newest faculty members in the burgeoning Writing Seminars program at the Johns Hopkins University ... "It's a pot of good luck for us," says Dave Smith, chairman of the Writing Seminars. "These two are program-makers, the kind of people who will extend [retiring professor Stephen] Dixon's contributions and add much we cannot yet imagine" to the department's future... </p>

<p>Salter won National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships in poetry, edited at The New Republic and was published frequently in The New York Times. Leithauser graduated from Harvard Law. His first book of poetry, Hundreds of Fireflies, helped land him a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1983. In the time since, his fiction, verse and essays have consistently won critical acclaim."</p>

<p>Just saw this online and figured people might be interested.</p>

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<p>Salter is my son’s faculty advisor for this year. Should be an interesting interaction!</p>

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<p>What a coup! They are outstanding.</p>

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<p>One quote from the article was funny to those of us tired of “chances” threads:
“We were hit with a tsunami of more than 300 applications, says Smith, who led the “long and byzantine process” of filling two positions.”
So if somewhere on the net there exists a JHU faculty “chances” thread, the answer is a less than 0.6% admit rate and you better have a MacArthur genius award or National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships to be considered.</p>

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<p>Love your post. So funny.</p>

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<p>roberthid:
Your post cracked me up … very funny!</p>

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<p>quote: One quote from the article was funny to those of us tired of “chances” threads:
“We were hit with a tsunami of more than 300 applications, says Smith, who led the “long and byzantine process” of filling two positions.”
So if somewhere on the net there exists a JHU faculty “chances” thread, the answer is a less than 0.6% admit rate and you better have a MacArthur genius award or National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships to be considered.</p>

<p>Oh, I have an NIH grant and a VA Merit Award, and I’m a JHU legacy, can I be admitted to the faculty? I remember eating great deep dish apple caramel pie with vanilla ice cream at the Faculty Club…</p>