Creative Writing – Poetry | Marginalia

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..

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 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..

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, “..

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..

OK. It’s totally thesis time. Us second-year students in the Creative Writing – Poetry MFA program just got our thesis adviser assignm..

The morning after our interviews and reading in Pittsburgh, we woke up and drove back across town with Kelly to meet Kayla for Breakfa..

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..

After the first day of our mini poetry tour, we picked up Jacob where the Megabus let him off in downtown Cincinnati, then drove towar..