Creative Writing
CategoryColumbia College Chicago’s Reading Series
There are a number of things to love about the Creative Writing program here at Columbia College, but one of the parts I’ve come to love t..
AWP 2017: Too Much To Do
Doe Parker (Editor, Columbia Poetry Review Vol 30) poses at the Columbia College Chicago booth at AWP before the writers descend upon the..
Hello from the South Side
Columbia College Chicago is located in downtown Chicago, immediately south of what is called “The Loop.” The Loop was so-named because of ..
From the Perspective of the Teacher
The Spring Semester started on Monday, and I don’t have my first graduate class until Wednesday night. So what have I been doing these fir..
Assembling Your Poetry Manuscript
Chrissy Martin (’17) assembling a chapbook of poems
I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point in the graduate school applicatio..
Goal or No Goal: Do What You Gotta Do
The New Year has dawned, and I don’t have a list of Resolutions for myself. For the past handful of years, I can name the “goals” I made f..
How Do You Publish?
(Photo: USPS)
Last week in my craft class, one of the first-year students asked everyone in the class how we submit our work to places..
A Rush and a Push and the Semester is Done!
When I was about to begin graduate school in early September I marked each of the fifteen weeks down on a calendar, much as a prisoner wou..
The Push to the Finish Line
I write to you from the last stress-filled weeks of the semester. I know end-of-semester chaos isn’t a new thing, but I always find myself..
What’s the Workload Like in a Poetry MFA Program?
As the Graduate Ambassador for the ..