Creative Writing – Poetry | Marginalia

I was once chastised (putting it mildly) for taking medical advice from a German bartender over a seemingly insouciant French doctor. ..

Summer, y’all.

What does a poet do when it isn’t 20 below zero with a windchill of negative 47 outside and there isn’t a waist-high..

(See also: sentimentality.)

In almost any beginning workshop, you’ll learn that there’s one thing that will turn a good poem sour i..

When I was thirteen, I went to a friend’s beach house for a week in May. I think there was a crawfish festival going on, because I rem..

In my first blog post last September, I mentioned that I’d just started co-curating a Chicago-based reading and performance series cal..

Almost every Wednesday night after class, two classmates—Abigail Zimmer and Tyler Cain Lacy—and I go to Boiler Room to celebrate the h..

Tuesday night I watched True Detective for research. Yesterday I submitted the final draft of my thesis. Today I slept in. If I could ..

Whoever said you can only yolo once was wrong.

Last Tuesday morning I missed my flight to Seattle. The United Airlines attendant to..

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..