Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Hohn felt he was too young and inexperienced for that program. Hohn’s decision to return to school was based on his less-than-positive experience at Boston University in the Master of Arts program. Graduates of the University’s MFA program often go on to become tenured-track professors at universities all over the United States, and many have won prestigious literary awards. ![]() Both graduated from the University with Master of Fine Arts degrees. When his wife decided to go back to school, Hohn applied with her and the two were accepted to the University. “I had this notion, perhaps because I read Thoreau’s ‘Walden,’ that I would choose to live modestly and make it work, which was idealistic and naïve,” Hohn said.Īfter graduating from Boston University with a Master of Arts, Hohn spent the next few years in New York City living out his “starving artist” dream and bartending at a café. By process of elimination I became a poet.”Īfter nixing priesthood and falling short in a chemistry class in high school, Hohn turned to poets and authors for guidance on living the life of a writer. “It was between marine biologist, poet and priest. “When I was 11 years old I had narrowed it down to three things,” Hohn said in an interview with The Michigan Daily. ![]()
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