Creative Writing – Poetry | Marginalia

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: ..

Requisite picture of “The Bean,” taken well after settling into the city. (Photo by David Fairbanks)

The idea of “home” is a bit stran..

Bristol Renaissance Faire

When I first arrived in Chicago two years ago my good friend and cohort member Ethan Chambers told me I shou..