Research Guides: Efroymson Creative Writing Reading Series: Adrian Matejka

Selected Poems by Adrian Matejka
Includes "Collectable Blacks," "Map to the Stars," "The Explorer," "Gymnopédies No. 1," "Gymnopédies No. 2." and "Gymnopédies No. 3."

Available at Columbia College Chicago Library

Somebody Else Sold the World

Library location: 5th floor, 811.6 M425s

Also available online

Standing on the Verge and Maggot Brain

Library location: 5th floor, 811.6 M425s

Map to the Stars

Library location: 5th floor, 811.6 M425ma

The Big Smoke

Library location: 5th floor, 811.6 M425b

Also available online

Mixology

Library location: 5th floor, 811.6 M425m

The Devil's Garden

Library location: 5th floor, 811.6 M425d

From Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose

Allium is a multi-genre print and online journal published by Columbia College Chicago’s English & Creative Writing Department. Allium publishes three issues each year: two online issues (Fall and Summer) and one print issue (Spring).

Additional Articles & Interviews

Short Conversations with Poets: Adrian Matejka
From McSweeney's, September 2022
"In the Shadow of the Archive: The Big Smoke and Black American Persona Poetry"
From African American Review, 2019
"Meet Adrian Matejka, the first Black editor to lead Poetry magazine in its 110-year history"
From The Chicago Tribune, 2022