Tony Trigilio

Creative Writing - Poetry
Associate Chair, English Department

Tony Trigilio is a member of the Core Poetry Faculty and co-edits the poetry journal Court Green.  He holds a Ph.D. in English from Northeastern University in Boston. He is the author of the poetry collection The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006); the chapbooks, With the Memory, Which is Enormous (Main Street Rag Press; forthcoming, 2009) and Make a Joke and I Will Sigh and You Will Laugh and I Will Cry (e-chap, Scantily Clad Press, 2008); and two books of criticism, Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007) and "Strange Prophecies Anew": Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg (Fairleigh, Dickinson University Press, 2000). He also is co-editor, with Tim Prchal, of the anthology Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008). Tony's poems have been anthologized in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab, 2006); Digerati: 20 Contemporary Poets in the Virtual World (Three Candles, 2006); America Zen (Bottom Dog Press, 2004), and A Gathering of Poets, a volume commemorating the students killed at Kent State University and Jackson State University (Kent State University Press).

Tony's research interests are in modern and postmodern U.S. poetry, cultural studies, romanticism, immigration literature, and Beat Generation literature. He has published critical essays in the collections Reconstructing the Beats (ed. Jennie Skerl; Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004) and Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation (Rutgers University Press, 2002). His articles and book reviews have appeared in journals such as American Literature, Another Chicago Magazine, Boston Review, Modern Language Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and others.

He recorded and toured as a member of Drumming On Glass. Recent compositions are at: http://www.starve.org/tony-music.html.

Tony received a 2009 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, and is a past recipient of Faculty Development Grants, a Technology Fellows Grant, and a Curriculum Diversity Grant from Columbia College Chicago.

His courses can be found on the web at: http://www.starve.org/teaching/classes.html.

Office Location: English Department, Suite 300-G, 33 E. Congress 

Office Phone: 312-369-8138 

Email: ttrigilio@colum.edu

Mailing address:
Tony Trigilio
Department of English
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605