David Fairbanks | Marginalia

Nate Marshall’s Wild Hundreds is the only book on this semester’s reading list I already owned. It’s incredible.

One of the most excit..

A nurse, by Roy Lichtenstein

By the time you read this, I’ll probably feel right as rain or some other tired cliché that means “health..

Portrait of John Keats. You don’t have to look like this to be a poet, I promise. You also don’t need to contract TB and die in your twen..

A Chicago forest preserve at sunset (Photo: David Fairbanks)

I’ve mentioned before that I left the somewhat pastoral hills of Southern..

It’s January. This view from the fifth floor of the library would certainly be desolate and gray right now (Photo: David Fairbanks)

Be..

Cartoonist Kevin Budnik reflects on the year gone by. I reflect a bit on why non-poetry media is necessary to me.

Somewhere here on th..

The Minds of Winter reading opened with Doe Parker (CCC 2018), photos by David Fairbanks

Do not trust anyone who tells you that gradua..

You know, that one band.

It’s that time of the semester, when prospective students are assembling their graduate school applications, ..

Tony Trigilio, David Fairbanks (me), John Gallaher, and Courtney Zellers (photo courtesy of Courtney Zellers)

I’m going to let you in ..

The Cheshire Cat – John Tenniel

‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked.
‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ..