Creative Writing
CategoryChicago: A Visit from a Friends
I’ve lived in Chicago for over a year now, and my best friends finally came to visit me. I was so excited to show them the school and ..
Columbia College Poetry Dispatch: Poetry Friends
What kind of people are in a graduate poetry program? Is it all hipsters? People straight out of college? Starving artists? All of the..
The Dollhouse Reading Series #6
Poetry readings are notorious for being snooze fests. For people outside of the writing community, they can be all kinds of boring. It..
Week Links: The History Of A Short Story
This week, we bring you a very special episode of Week Links. Instead of a link to a classmate’s story, I’m sharing one of my own, “Th..
So I get to teach. Then What?
As a candidate in the Creative Writing-Nonfiction program, I was offered the chance to take a Theory and Praxis course that prepared m..
Columbia College Poetry Dispatch: Faculty Relationships
I went to a Big Ten school for my undergraduate education. More specifically, I went to Michigan. Michigan is a big school (not too mu..
Old Testament Momentum: Building a Body of Work
I was catching up with my friend Kurt, who did Semester in LA, then spent the summer in his native Kansas City. After we ate some pork..
Columbia College Poetry Dispatch: Red Rover Series
I recently attended the Red Rover Series’ poetry reading in Wicker Park, which was a part of the 100,000 Poets for Change event going ..
Teaching Fiction Writing Pt. 2: The Legend of Curly’s Gold
As a grad student, I figured that my teaching career would start with a section of Freshman Comp. That wasn’t how it went down. Last w..
Books, books, books
I love books. Ask any writer about the possessions that he or she values most and I am positive that books are at the top, if not near..