Creative Writing | Marginalia

So you can get an idea of the writing that the Fiction Writing Department is producing, I am publishing excerpts from work by my fello..

Lisa Fishman and Tony Trigilio put on a brief event where they talked about the practical matters of being a poet this past weekend. T..

At Columbia College Chicago, not only did I learn a lot about how to write, I also learned how to read. Well, I already knew how to re..

I’ve blogged a few times about The Dollhouse Reading Series and, as I have mentioned before, it is my very favorite reading series. Do..

I met Liz and Sara at New Wave Coffee in Logan Square. We talked about the manuscript process, the joys of being a second year MFA st..

I’ve been thinking about the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.”

“April is the cruellest month.”

And I’ve been thinkin..

So you can get an idea of the writing that the Fiction Writing Department is producing, I am publishing excerpts from work by my fello..

My first class at Columbia was on a Monday night with Professor David Lazar. It was History of the Essay, a class that exposed me to e..

My poetry has changed a lot since I started here. This is good. In fact, I would say if my work hadn’t drastically changed in the last..