After the program era: the past, present, and future of creative writing in the university

Introduction : From the pound era to the program era, and beyond / Loren Glass

The creative calling / Marija Reiff

From vagabond to visiting poet : Vachel Lindsay and the institutionalization of American poetry / Mike Chasar

Institutional itinerancy : Malcolm Cowley and the domestication of cosmopolitanism / Benjamin Kirbach

Modernism and the MFA / Greg Barnhisel

Flannery O'Connor, the Cold War, and the Canon / Eric Bennett

Alternative degrees : "works in OPEN" at Black Mountain College / Stephen Voyce

Robert Coover, hypertext, and the technomodern pedagogy of fairy tales / Kelly Budruweit

What we talk about when we talk about Lish / Matthew Blackwell

Timely exile : James Alan McPherson, the Iowa writers' workshop, and black creativity / Michael Hill

The program era and the mainly white room / Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young

Humanities fiction : a genre / Simon During

"My ghost life" : Russell Banks and the limits of aesthetic democracy / Sean McCann

Getting real : from mass modernism to peripheral realism / Donal Harris

From modernism to metamodernism : quantifying and theorizing the stages of the program era / Seth Abramson

Afterword : And then what? / Mark McGurl.