Andrew Krzak | Marginalia

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the connection between body and mind; how one’s physicality affects one’s mentality and how this rel..

Spring break 2018 is fast approaching. When we return, there will only be seven more weeks in the semester. When I walk out of my evening ..

It’s February. Eight inches of snow. 30 hours of rain followed by freezing temperatures. 65 degrees the next day, and foggy. Chicago is li..

In many institutions of higher education it is customary for faculty members to rotate through taking turns as the department heads. It’s ..

I was recently asked by several individuals what tips I might have for potential applicants. The first, an admissions counsellor, was prep..

Dante Gabriel Rossetti! Lead letters caste backwards and upside down! Ink! Poetry! Frustration! Joy!

I’m writing, of course, about “Ill..

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One of the Department of English and Creative Writing’s major initiatives is the Reading Series. Each semester, writer..

Recently, I was selected as a semi-finalist for the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. This evening of performance poetry has been held ann..

I was born on the northwest side of Chicago. My great aunt, a nun, was the administrator of Resurrection Hospital, which served at that ti..

As a child I would always get depressed around the last week of July. That’s when the commercial breaks of all the cartoons I used to watc..