Columbia College Chicago - MFA Poetry Posted on April 23rd
Columbia College Chicago’s MFA Program in Creative Writing–Poetry, one of the only single-genre programs in the country, will prepare you to write and publish poetry at a high professional level.
You’ll gain a sophisticated understanding of poetry as a contemporary and historical practice as you bolster your imaginative and critical abilities. Wide and Shallow, Narrow and Deep: An Experiment in Influence. Collage & Collaboration. Foundations and Metamorphoses: Poetic Re-Makings of Epic, Visionary, and Classical Texts. Poetry & Film. Taboo, Unrepresentable, and Underrepresented Topics. Sexton & Plath. These are just some of Literature Classes and Craft Seminars that, along with Graduate Poetry Workshops, will prepare you as an artist, scholar, and creative professional.
You’ll also have the chance to take electives in writing pedagogy and literary magazine editing and production. When you complete the program, you’ll have a book-length poetry manuscript in hand, and will be prepared to participate in the worlds of poetry, publishing, and the arts.
A Thesis Development Seminar, usually taken in your penultimate semester, will assist you in compiling your manuscript. In your final semester, you’ll polish your thesis manuscript as you work one-on-one with one of our four nationally-renowned, award-winning Core Faculty members or with our Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts and Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence.
Distinctive Features
• Two-year, poetry-only MFA program
• Enough evening classes to be a full-time student while working 9-to-5
• Vibrant, diverse local poetry scene in the birthplace of the poetry slam
• Urban campus in booming downtown Chicago neighborhood
• Students work for the Poetry Foundation, Chicago Poetry Center, and other local arts organizations
