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Creative Writing – Poetry

In the weeks since classes ended, life has, if anything, been more stressful. That doesn’t make sense at all, but as I write this I’m ..

The summer between the first and second year of an MFA program feels important. It feels like growth is supposed to happen; you’ve bee..

I feel like a second year now. I mean, pretty much. As I write this, I am in the last week of classes, having just watched the second ..

Lisa Fishman and Tony Trigilio put on a brief event where they talked about the practical matters of being a poet this past weekend. T..

I met Liz and Sara at New Wave Coffee in Logan Square. We talked about the manuscript process, the joys of being a second year MFA st..

My poetry has changed a lot since I started here. This is good. In fact, I would say if my work hadn’t drastically changed in the last..

If you want an honest depiction of what the last week or so looked like for me, it’s above. I came back from a weekend at a wedding in..

First of all, I want to say congratulations to all the new admitted students. I decided to write this post at this time to give you so..

Depending on who you talk to, AWP is mostly about one of two things: the off-site events or and the book fair (the panels are alright)..