RECAP OF YESTERDAY’S TENURE-TRACK JOB INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH
They asked me for an adjective
to describe myself as a teacher
and I gave them a noun.
They asked me to roleplay
a situation in which I told a student
she would need to retake the class
and I ended up giving
her a second chance.
Then I asked if the water bottle
provided for me
had vodka in it.
Then I referred to the hiring committee
which consisted entirely of women
as “you guys.”
—from Rattle #53, Fall 2016
Tribute to Adjuncts
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Clint Margrave: “I currently teach English (at least this semester—you never know) as an adjunct at El Camino College and Cal State Long Beach. The word ‘adjunct’ means a thing added to something else, supplementary and inessential. It’s the outsider status that has always informed my poetry.” (website)
