Poetry

From introduction: "...60 writers take on the on-again, off-again affair between mind and body. They take inventory part by part, feeling by feeling, urge by irresistible urge. They address birth and death and everything in between. The struggle to resist the status quo and take ownership of how we see and think about ourselves is fought in many ways on these pages. Not unexpectedly, the writers prove once again, hilariously, mournfully, tenderly, that the personal is political." Writers for this issue come from St. Leonard's House and from the following Chicago Public Library branches: Bezazian, Budlong Woods, Richard M. Daley, Hall, King, Mabel Manning.

"Inspired by the founders of spoken word, Kenyata Garner brings new life to the world of spoken word. Her poetry is limitless as she tests the boundaries of literature. A Word for the Open Mouth is sure to satisfy all lovers of poetry as she takes you on a mind watering adventure." *

A showcase and gallery for the voices and visions of Chicago poets, fiction writers, artists, and photographers

Moonlit is a poetry compilation co-edited by Lisa Janssen and Claire McMahon. There are fourteen contributors to the collection.

MAP OF THE HYDROGEN WORLD, Steve Halle's first collection of poems, shuns the divide between post-avant and Official Verse Culture poetics by embracing traditional forms while simultaneously developing new ways of working through poetry. From traditional lyric and narrative poems to formal experiments, Halle finds his own way through history, art, politics, faith and self. "Ginsbergian incantation, high modernist allusion, post-avant rhizome and the documentary collage--these are the weapons in Steve Halle's arsenal. Joyce, Eliot, Emerson, Whitman and Keats shoot through the static of text-messaging, global positioning systems, surveillance culture, and an urgent sense of the world's victims. Halle carries a humanistic heritage into an inhuman world. "--Robert Archambea

Poems by fifth grade students about what America means to them. Part of a two volume series featuring an exchange between Kenyan and American Students.

A collection of poems about Kenya by fifth grade students in Kenya. Part of an exchange program with fifth graders in America.

A quarterly of short, light poetry