Daniel Scott Parker | Marginalia

Over the winter break, the Center for Book and Paper Arts (CPBA) hosted a two-day papermaking workshop called Images in Pulp. The work..

This is the week I show up to teach and, after several minutes of weird, alien air in which my first-year writing students are squirmi..

Good question, right? And the consideration is nothing new. During a time when our current cultural ecosystem is characterized by dras..

“A what?”

“A poet.”

As if having my entire extended family think I just walk around in a beret and snapping my fingers isn’t har..

“I touch it, and it goes bzzzzzzarre.”

This is how Kwame Dawes kicked off Creative Nonfiction Week last week at CCC, and it couldn’t ha..

Printmaking is fun
Photo credit: Missy Cargo
Nov 22, 2010

Last month an artist friend that I studied with in Italy was visiting Chicago,..

Hello there. My name is Daniel Scott Parker, and this is my first blog post as the new MFA Poetry ambassador. I hope that you guys wil..