Robert Klein Engler

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

In our logo we have called ourselves "a journal of Chicago writing and art." The Chicago school of literature is very much like the people, the politicians, the style, the neighborhoods of the city that inspires an artistic vice that is unpretentious, aware of the realities and inequalities of materialism yet sentimental in a streetwise-front-stoop-backyard sort of way. So often Chicago is thought of as unrefined or unsophisticated ... a city of big-shouldered thugs, scandal, dirty alleys ad factory workers. But what Chicago lacks in polish, it makes up for in honesty. Chicago writers pull no punches. Chicago writers find a beauty in big-shouldered thugs, scandal, dirty alleys ad factory workers. *

A collection of poems by ChicagoPoetry.com contributors and other web-poets, collected in the Poetry Cram chapbook format. Originally distributed free at poetry events and venues.

Poetry, memoirs, short stories and more on the subject of food.