Creative Writing – Poetry
CategoryWinter Break is Here!!
This break started off with a BANG! I read at the Dollhouse with Brian Russel, Kathleen Rooney, and Glenn Shaheen. It was the first ti..
END OF THE SEMESTER!!!!!
The semester is over, and for some reason this felt like the longest EVER. Not that it was bad; in fact, it was quite good. I finished..
Yeah, This Post is About Shoes…Kind Of
I finally bought new shoes. Converse. This used to the only shoe I ever wore, but after moving to Chicago, I realized I needed somethi..
Teaching & Grad School
Teaching is an important part of graduate school. I know there are some people who don’t want to teach, and that’s cool, but for those..
Graduate School?
For me it happened near the end of undergrad, when I told my professor I wanted to teach writing. He urged me to get my MA. He said, “..
Distraction(s)
As a father, I have many distractions, many things that can keep me from being productive as a grad student. I don’t know how many tim..
Thesis. Projects. Yeah.
OK. It’s totally thesis time. Us second-year students in the Creative Writing – Poetry MFA program just got our thesis adviser assignm..
Debriefing the Road Trip & Getting Back to It
Hey everyone! Obviously, we’ve been back to normal Grad School Life for a bit now, even though I’ve been blogging about the road trip ..
Road Trip: Day 4 – Pittsburgh, PA to Washington, DC to Chicago, IL
The morning after our interviews and reading in Pittsburgh, we woke up and drove back across town with Kelly to meet Kayla for Breakfa..
Road Trip: Day 3 – Akron, OH to Pittsburgh, PA
We woke up the morning after the reading, and Mike pointed us towards a diner. (No, I cannot remember its name.) All that matters: old..