poetry | Marginalia

First of all, I want to say congratulations to all the new admitted students. I decided to write this post at this time to give you so..

Depending on who you talk to, AWP is mostly about one of two things: the off-site events or and the book fair (the panels are alright)..

So, AWP just happened as of the time of writing (first few days of March). The entire experience was absolutely amazing, and I want to..

I’m just about done grading my first batch of unit papers. My first test of myself as a teacher where I get to ask myself the very imp..

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I don’t know why, you don’t know why, very few people know why, and those people don’t talk so we might as well forget about them. For..

One of the absolutely amazing things about graduate school is the wonderful community of creative individuals following their passion…

I recently wrote about my first steps as a teacher. I was fresh off having a great class, excited, and feeling like I could take on th..

When I originally applied for MFA programs, I applied in fiction. Fiction seemed more practical; there are at least a few fiction writ..

By the time this goes up I will have finished my first semester at Columbia College Chicago. I will be one semester closer to having m..