Poetry Faculty


Lisa Fishman's fourth book, F L O W E R C A R T, is forthcoming on Ahsahta Press; she is also the author of The Happiness Experiment (2007) and Dear, Read (2002, 2006), both from Ahsahta, and The Deep Heart’s Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues, 1996). She has recently published two chapbooks, KabbaLoom (Wyrd Press, Boulder) and “The Holy Spirit does not deal in synonimes,” notes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning transcribed from the margins of her Greek and Hebrew Bibles (Parcel Chapbooks, Denver) and has new work in recent or forthcoming issues of Conduit, A Public Space, 1913 a journal of forms, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Arielle Greenberg is the author of the poetry collections My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005) and Given (Verse, 2002) and editor, with Rachel Zucker, of a forthcoming anthology of essays, Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts & Affections (University of Iowa Press, 2008). She is also the editor of a college composition reader, Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (Longman, 2006). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, American Poetry Review, Fence, jubilat, and Black Warrior Review, in the 2004 and 2005 editions of Best American Poetry, in the anthologies Legitimate Dangers and Joyful Noise, and have been translated into German. She is the poetry editor of Black Clock and the founder of the Poet-moms listserv. She is the recipient of a Saltonstall Artist's Grant and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Tony Trigilio is the Director of Creative Writing--Poetry at Columbia College. He is author of the poetry collection The Lama’s English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006), and the critical books 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 is also co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008). Recent poems are published or forthcoming in journals such as Black Clock, Cream City Review, Denver Quarterly, and North American Review. He co-edits the poetry magazine Court Green, published in association with Columbia College Chicago.

David Trinidad's most recent book, The Late Show, was published by Turtle Point Press in 2007. With Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, he edited Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2007). With Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie, he co-wrote Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (Turtle Point, 2003), a mock-epic based on the 1950 film All About Eve. His other books include Answer Song (High Risk Books, 1994), Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988 (Amethyst Press, 1991), Pavane (Sherwood Press, 1981), and Plasticville (Turtle Point, 2000), a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets. He edited Powerless (High Risk, 1996), the selected poems of Tim Dlugos, and with Maxine Scates, Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (Copper Canyon Press, 2001).

Jenny Boully is the author of The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande, 2007), [one love affair]* (Tarpaulin Sky Books, 2006), The Body: An Essay (Essay Press, 2007 and Slope Editions, 2002), and the chapbook Moveable Types (Noemi Press, 2007). Her work has been anthologized in The Next American Essay, The Best American Poetry, Language for a New Century, and Great American Prose Poems. She recieved her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and holds previous graduate degrees in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and Hollins University. Born in Thailand and reared in Texas, she joined the faculty at Columbia College Chicago in Fall 2008.

Also on the faculty are Art Lange, author of the poetry collection Evidence and editor, with Nathaniel Mackey, of Moment's Notice, an anthology of creative writing on the subject of jazz; Jeff Schiff; Susen James; and others.

In addition, distinguished poets serve as visiting faculty who teach workshops and craft courses every spring semester. Recent Visiting Poets have included Joan Larkin, Ed Roberson, Karen Volkman, Laura Mullen, Tom Raworth, Diane Di Prima, Li-Young Lee, Clayton Eshleman, Nick Carbo, Stephanie Strickland, Rick Meier, and Danielle Pafunda.

Each year we also welcome the Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence.