MFA Poetry | Marginalia

The MFA program in Creative Writing has recently welcomed a new Director of Graduate Studies: Lisa Fishman. Lisa has claimed her posit..

Full disclosure: before this semester, the only type of workshops that I have ever encountered—whether it was in undergrad, my week at VON..

My workshop journal that is full of invaluable notes and information

The horror stories are out there. For people of color, and anyone..

Tuesday, September 3, 2018: commence heavy breathing and heart-race.

First, let’s backtrack a bit. Leading up to my first day of g..

My thesis, on the surface level, concerns a double murder that happened outside of my hometown in Georgia in 1930, and the bodies were..

It’s hard to believe that my year as ambassador is coming to a close. It’s been a terrifically exciting, prolific, and rewarding year,..

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

(See also: sentimentality.)

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

Almost every Wednesday night after class, two classmates—Abigail Zimmer and Tyler Cain Lacy—and I go to Boiler Room to celebrate the h..

Tuesday night I watched True Detective for research. Yesterday I submitted the final draft of my thesis. Today I slept in. If I could ..