Creative Writing | Marginalia

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..

I just got to meet my new nephew. Do you know how cool it is to be a first-time uncle? The coolest.

My sister had her son on June 1..

I’m back! You might remember from my last post that I mentioned I was going on a little vacation back to Florida. After being away..

(See also: sentimentality.)

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

It’s finally summer! Chicago is looking lovely these days, and a few days out of the week are warm enough that people can escape to th..

I am happy to report that I survived my first year of grad school and my first semester teaching. It’s hard to believe how quickly thi..

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..

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