Marginalia | The Graduate Blog, Columbia College Chicago

Playing with gold leaf and blood-based thumbprinting as an artist’s signature for a book in progress.

Reading Langston Hughes and making notes. Coffee is optional, though generally encouraged.

Anyone who tells you that reading poetry is..

One of the key issues facing national parks in the United States today is overuse. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which straddle..

This summer has been pretty amazing. There are so many fun things to do around the city of Chicago. There are a ton of music venues, a..

Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, and Man Ray’s Cadavre Exquis at MoMA

If you’re like most writers I know, the hardest p..

So close, yet so far

Halfway through summer and it finally hit me: I’m about a month away from my final semester of school…

EVER…

I’ve been excited by the way my longstanding interests have synthesized and twisted together through photography. One such instance is the..

The Fall semester begins Tuesday, September 8. It’s still roughly a month and a half away. But to the new members of the Columbia Coll..

From June to October, Chicago comes alive. It wakes up from its cold and long winter slumber and turns into a..

My notebook that goes mostly anywhere with me, with an introduction (and welcome to Columbia) from the former Poetry MFA Ambassador.

T..