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Alexandra, an Oak Park native, uses her writing to share the whimsy, the weird and the real. Raised in a jewish house hold, she incorporates her Eastern European Jewish heritage into her writing, while taking inspiration from some of her favorite authors: Kafka and Poe.
Chicago poet, Tony Trigilio, reads from his essay collection, Craft: A Memoir. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.
“Poetry forces me to pay attention—and to do so with delight,” Tony says. “I want to read and write poems that teach me to see. ‘The eye altering,’ as William Blake writes, ‘alters all.’”
Matthew’s poetry focuses on themes of memory, environment, love, sexual desire, dreams, madness and death. The poems paint a picture inside your mind, transporting you to a place of imagination and, at times, fantasy.
Katelin Reinert is a junior BMus Music Composition major at Columbia College Chicago. She is an advanced pianist and flutist and the first chair melodica player of Columbia College Chicago's New Music Ensemble. Katelin, aspiring to become a media composer, has premiered two of her original scores with the ensemble.
Gina, a Chicago resident, recently earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago. Her literature, twice nominated for the Pushcart prize, is exceedingly personal, often satirical, with an eye cast to the side for the strange and whimsical.
Matthew’s poetry focuses on themes of memory, environment, love, sexual desire, dreams, madness and death. The poems paint a picture inside your mind, transporting you to a place of imagination and, at times, fantasy.
Tony Trigilio’s most recent book of poems is Proof Something Happened. His essay collection, Craft: A Memoir, is forthcoming in September 2023. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.
