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S:2-Ep:8 Kimberly Shine

S:2-Ep:8 Kimberly Shine

Matthew Gutierrez

Kimberly Shine is a creative and media professional from chicago. Her collection of poetry, “On the Other Side of Everything” encourages readers to quiet the noise, take control of their lives and to live freely.

S:2-Ep:6 Tony Trigilio

S:2-Ep:6 Tony Trigilio

Matthew Gutierrez

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.’”

S:2-Ep:5 Matthew Gutierrez/Katelin Reinert

S:2-Ep:5 Matthew Gutierrez/Katelin Reinert

Matthew Gutierrez

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.

S:2-Ep:4 Lor Clincy

S:2-Ep:4 Lor Clincy

Matthew Gutierrez

Lor Clincy, a Chicago native, uses poetry to tell salient experiences that require readers/listeners to consider perspectives that are not the status quo, while honing in on African American experiences through commentary and reflection.

S:2-Ep:3 Julia Nusbaum

S:2-Ep:3 Julia Nusbaum

Matthew Gutierrez

Julia writes fiction and nonfiction pieces that are heavily influenced and inspired by her Midwestern roots. She is interested in the gritty underbelly of lives and relationships, and writes on the raw edges of being human.

S:2-Ep:2: Gina Twardosz

S:2-Ep:2: Gina Twardosz

Matthew Gutierrez

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.

Episode 11: Matthew Gutierrez

Episode 11: Matthew Gutierrez

Matthew Gutierrez

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.