students | Marginalia

As a second year student, I am required (like all other second years) to take a class called Connected Studio Practices (or CS..

Cherise and I teach our Hunger Games lesson plan this Thursday, so we spent the weekend printing worksheets, buying art supplies, and ..

As promised in last week’s post, here is my analysis of Rookie Magazine’s effect on adolescents. All of the photos on the blog are my ..

My husband recently asked me to accompany him..

Kevin Kane has done a lot for Chicago writers, on-campus and off-, so interviewing him was a no-brainer. The fact that he’s a gr..

I’ve loved Jessie Morrison’s writing since the third week of class, when our teacher read our class a story she’d started two weeks be..

Recently I was asked what it was about my experience at Columbia that has surprised me the most. It didn’t take me very long to come ..

What were you doing before you came to the Book and Paper Arts program (what is your background)?

I have an undergraduate degree in..

What kind of people are in a graduate poetry program? Is it all hipsters? People straight out of college? Starving artists? All of the..