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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: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: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.

Episode 6: Tony Trigilio

Episode 6: Tony Trigilio

Matthew Gutierrez

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.