Arielle Greenberg Bywater

Creative Writing - Poetry
Associate Professor
On sabbatical 2009-2010

Arielle is the author of two collections of poetry, My Kafka Century (Action Books, forthcoming 2005) and Given (Verse, 2002), and editor, along with Rachel Zucker, of the anthologies Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (University of Iowa, 2010) and Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts & Affections (University of Iowa, 2008).  Another anthology, Gurlesque (Saturnalia 2010), on a theory of feminist poetics she developed, is co-edited with Lara Glenum.  She is also an editor of a college compotion reader, Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (Longman, 2006), editor at the literary magazines Court Green and Black Clock.  Her own poems have appeared in journals including the American Poetry Review and the Denver Quarterly and were featured in the 2004 and 2005 volumes of Best American Poetry. She is the recipient of a Saltonstall Artist's Grant and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Her areas of scholarly and teaching interest include women's poetry, 20th century poetry, innovative poetics, cinema and cultural studies.

Office Location: English Department, 300-T, 3rd floor, 33 E. Congress

Office Phone: (312) 369-8233

FAX: 312-369-8001

Email: abywater@colum.edu

Mailing Address:
Arielle Greenberg Bywater
Department of English
Columbia College of Chicago
600 So. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605