Creative Writing | Marginalia

OMG (wood block)

After spending winter (and if we’re going to be honest here, most of spring) cooped up inside, Chicagoans love few th..

It’s officially summer and the realization that I won’t be returning to classes in the fall is setting in. I am of course delighted an..

Poetry professor Tony Trigilio and MFA students Todd Summar (Fiction) and Kara Yi (Poetry) listen to Rozina Kidari (Non-Fiction) read dur..

Setting Type in the Book and Paper Studios

As writers, we all have our set methods, preferred places and times to write, our tried and..

Nature Art

The first thing I will say about graduating from Columbia College Chicago is what overwhelming gratitude I have for the sch..

Ethan Chambers

For this week we enter the mind of my good friend and classmate, Ethan Chambers. He is a truly inspiring individual, an..

Sunset Under the Tracks

The final classes for the term have been dismissed, students are jetting away to faraway vacations or beginnin..

Goodbye, my friends. It is with a light heart that I leave you in the capable hands of the new ambassador, Brittany! I say “light hear..

Monkey Business, New Writing From Japan

This past week, we had the pleasure of hosting the Editors Moto Shibata and Roland Kelts of Mo..

Poetry in the park

When asked what it is like to teach at Columbia College Chicago, I tell people I cannot imagine teaching anywhere e..