poetry | Marginalia

Printmaking is fun
Photo credit: Missy Cargo
Nov 22, 2010

Last month an artist friend that I studied with in Italy was visiting Chicago,..

Hello there. My name is Daniel Scott Parker, and this is my first blog post as the new MFA Poetry ambassador. I hope that you guys wil..

So here it is! My final hurrah!

It’s been a fun year, and I’m really glad that my final year as an MFA student at Columbia College ..

Me and the fam have settled into Wicker Park. We love the new neighborhood and feel at home. The job is moving along and I’ve got the ..

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of looking for places to live, working, hanging out with friends, submitting, and writing, am..

Yes! I officially hold an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. We did it! We graduated and we’re still alive and everything is..

I know, I know. I turned in my thesis and all my job applications, but things are still crazy. But good. I got a job interview coming ..

Our two-year stint is rapidly coming to an end, and I think we are all ready to get outta here. At the same time, however, we are all ..

Toward the Blue Peninsula c. 1953 by Joseph Cornell

Dream (for Joseph Cornell)

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These magical boxes create universes, crack i..

So, as I’m writing this, I’m smack-dab in the middle of spring break. When you read this, I will be smack-dab in the middle of the wee..