Tony Trigilio

Director, Creative Writing--Poetry
Associate Chair, English Department

Tony Trigilio is the Director of Creative Writing--Poetry, and also serves as the Associate Chairperson of the English Department. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Northeastern University in Boston. His newest books include a collection of poetry, The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006); a book of criticism, Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007); and an anthology of literature on the immigration experience, co-edited with Tim Prchal, Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Forthcoming, Fall/Winter 2007/2008, Rutgers University Press). He also is the author of a book on poetry and prophecy, "Strange Prophecies Anew": Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg (Fairleigh, Dickinson University Press, 2000).

Tony's recent poems appear or are forthcoming in journals such as Big Bridge, Cream City Review, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, La Petite Zine, MiPoesias, and North American Review. His poetry has been anthologized in 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 essays have appeared in collections such as 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, Modern Language Studies, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.  Tony also co-edits, with Arielle Greenberg and David Trinidad, the poetry journal Court Green.

Tony also is a musician (percussion and banjo) whose performances and recordings have included voice sampling collage and spoken word, and he recorded and toured as a member of Drumming On Glass. Recent music compositions are at: http://www.starve.org/tony-music.html.

His research interests are in cultural studies, romanticism, immigration literature, modern and postmodern U.S. poetry, and Beat Generation literature. Tony is one of the founding members of the Beat Studies Association, an international organization committed to fostering scholarship on Beat Generation writers.

He is a past recipient of a Columbia College Faculty Development Grant, Columbia College Technology Fellows Grant, and a Columbia College Curriculum Diversity Grant.

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

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

Office Phone: 312-344-8138 

Email: ttrigilio@colum.edu

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