Tony Trigilio

Director, Creative Writing - Poetry
Associate Chair, English Department

Tony Trigilio is the Director of Creative Writing - Poetry and is the Associate Chairperson of the English Department. 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 also co-edits, with Lisa Fishman, Arielle Greenberg and David Trinidad, the poetry journal Court Green.

His 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, Boston Review, Modern Language Studies, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 

Tony also is a musician 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  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. 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: 312-369-8138 

Email: ttrigilio@colum.edu

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