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Lee Upton is professor of English and writer-in-residence. One of her mentees, Ross Gay ’96, is a poet and instructor at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the MFA in poetry program, Drew University. To mentor imaginative writers means engaging in an extreme form of listening. Mentoring is also about treating with respect the shape that each […]