Creative Writing | Marginalia

One of the aspects that drew me to Columbia’s Creative Writing master’s program was the opportunity to teach a composition class. A bi..

You might be thinking, “Bethany, you’re the poet blogger at Marginalia. Why is your preview image of a painting?” Well reader, one of the ..

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One of the Department of English and Creative Writing’s major initiatives is the Reading Series. Each semester, writer..

The pen is…you get it

I’m almost certain my roommates are tired of hearing me come home every night and cry in my bedroom. Joking, j..

It’s safe to say that the semester is here. If my profs and my classmates aren’t lying to me (a thing I would never suspect them of), we’v..

Recently, I was selected as a semi-finalist for the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. This evening of performance poetry has been held ann..

My undergraduate university was a four-hour drive away from my parents home. Well I didn’t really drive down my freshmen year. I wasn’t al..

Last week I experienced the greatest amount of nervousness I’ve had for any workshop in the entirety of my education. This fall, the secon..

I was born on the northwest side of Chicago. My great aunt, a nun, was the administrator of Resurrection Hospital, which served at that ti..

If you’re about to enter graduate school for the first time or coming back from a much-needed break, as we move into the school year I hop..