Creative Writing | Marginalia

Part of the requirements for a Creative Writing MFA at Columbia College is to take two Literature courses. These courses are focused more ..

Dante Gabriel Rossetti! Lead letters caste backwards and upside down! Ink! Poetry! Frustration! Joy!

I’m writing, of course, about “Ill..

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..

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..

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..

Over the summer, there’s a certain lack of structure without the daily routine of going to class and being assigned homework. As writers, ..

I just completed my fourth semester at Columbia. It could be considered my final semester, since the Fall will just be me working on my th..

Everyone comes to Columbia at different stages in their writing career. Whether you’re fresh out of undergrad (like I was), or you’ve take..

Doe Parker (Editor, Columbia Poetry Review Vol 30) poses at the Columbia College Chicago booth at AWP before the writers descend upon the..