John Brooks

"Lost in Darkness" speaks to the voices never heard, the stories never told. The voices of those with no guarantee of hearth and home. Books on housing usually don't make the best-seller lists. Housing isn't "sexy". You won't hear these stories in the late-night on Letterman or Leno. But many of us are just a couple of paychecks away from the street. Recent studies have confirmed it: Twenty-first Century Chicago faces an alarming crisis - a severe shortage of affordable house. This collection captures the real, human stories of housing and homelessness. The words of human beings who shuffle, invisible, through half-lives of bus shelters, viaducts and abandoned basements.

Cram is a free poetry zine distributed in Chicago. This issue collects winners of the CAPP awards.

Gallery Humboldt Park is a program for select young artists and writers in Chicago. We offer master classes in the visual and literary and literary arts-including mural making and publication of zine-anthology by the young artists. TAKEN FROM BOOKLET

The Residents' Journal describes itself as "A publication by low-income residents in Chicago." Stories in this issue include "New CHA Work Rule Questioned," "Are CPD Contact Cards Constitutional?," "Harold Ikes News," and "Urban Youth International Journalism Program."