Columbia College Chicago | Marginalia

I was once chastised (putting it mildly) for taking medical advice from a German bartender over a seemingly insouciant French doctor. ..

Julie and John come to visit in St. Paul, 2011

Studio visit is a word that you will hear over and over again while in grad school (whe..

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..

Emily

In preparation for my residency in Portland, Oregon this coming fall, I have finally begun to photograph a project that has been..

(See also: sentimentality.)

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

So, in the last blog post I had mentioned my taking on of an intern for the month of June. While I have been putting her to work doing..

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..

Three years ago, I began my MFA journey at Columbia. Now, as of a few days ago, that part of my life is finished. But, for me, the MFA..

While following my journey through the Elementary Education MAT Program at Columbia College Chicago, you have gotten to know me, my cohort..

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