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Liesl Olson shares three sections from her new book, Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis, at Los Angeles Review of Books this week. She explains that the...

Published this week at Chicago is a look into Sandra Cisneros's early life in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood in the 1960s and 70s, along with the reasons why she left...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qik45Tw2iI4     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWVLpOXSjLI     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkUk4as0lxc     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIemxg5thTo     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFxOcVooRKs     https://youtu.be/utG2EUuQiC8     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASMBR2YuTtg     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDsmVhRi07A     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ak_NxrwgoM     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWkBgTZlYY     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX60uMEJi94     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLIHnMQFFM   The poem pictured in the header's center image is Keith S. Wilson's "Minotaur, 16, Enters a Convenience Store." Creatures that appear trapped were in fact reluctant but eventually exited. These videos were captured...

the world to tempt the thief inside a glass ball. To tell the truth. (That Thanksgiving I made a soup from instant potatoes. I think I had. Instant heaven. Rooms grave and grainy. I tried hard....

The video stills in the sixth row are from Oum Kalthoum's live performance of "Baeed Anak" or "Away From You." All other images are mine, taken on camera phones...

We were honored to learn that Chicago magazine awarded us "The Best Showplace for Chicago Artists" in their 2014 Best of Chicago issue.  We want to take this opportunity to...

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has acquired Gwendolyn Brooks's archive! Highlights from the archive include spiral-bound notebooks...

Follow the Printer's Ball on Facebook: Founded by Poetry magazine with other independent Chicago literary organizations, the Printers’ Ball is an annual celebration of print culture, featuring thousands of...

           --from “Facing It,” Yusef Komunyakaa’s great poem            about war and race and America and the Vietnam Memorial. The university where I currently teach has more political diversity among its student body...