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Additionally, the Poetics Program has long-standing ties to our graduate student-run literary journal, The Chicago Review, one of the nation’s premier literary journals. For more information about the Program in Poetry and Poetics and our upcoming events, please join our mailing list. Additionally, the Poetics Program has long-standing ties to our graduate student-run literary journal, The Chicago Review, one of the nation’s premier literary journals. For more information about the Program in Poetry and Poetics and our upcoming events, please join our mailing list. This spring we partnered with the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting to offer our Chicago students additional workshops, and a chance to link up with a national poetry competition that.

In your first of two years at Columbia, you’ll take workshops as part of your initial graduate school experience, and you’ll dive into craft seminars and literature courses to study poetry as well as fiction and creative nonfiction. If you intend to be a graduate student instructor, you’ll take composition theory and learn how to teach. If you plan to work on Columbia Poetry Review—the student-edited, nationally distributed literary journal—you’ll start immediately.
As you finish your MFA program, you’ll take a thesis development seminar to learn how to compile and promote your writing as you work one-on-one with a faculty member to shape your thesis into a substantial manuscript. You’ll also continue to take craft seminars that challenge you to explore your unique voice. In a final poetics class, you’ll look at how other poets have shaped the genre—and where you’ll fit into that shape versus where you’ll push the boundaries.

You’ll have several opportunities outside your graduate classes to grow:

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• Create reading series, journals, or presses of your own.
• Teach as a graduate student instructor or teaching assistant.
• Participate in the student-run 33 Reading Series, which features readings by MFA students in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.
• Create reading series, journals, or presses of your own.