Zine (z)

A collection of short stories about somethings that never help and bad habits that shouldn't exist. Of hopelessness and the reality of life in which we all try to escape.

Highly fictional account of a night in the life of "Professor Davis" and all the amazing adventures contained therein, including (but not limited to) playing checkers with a skeleton, breaking into Mayor Daley's house, and providing musical accompaniment for prostitutes.

A collage of memoir-type reflections, particularly musings on love and personal relationships, exaninations of religious faith and spirituality, and reflections on the death of the author's loved ones. Very much a personal zine.

The fourth issue of Chicago-based 1980s zine Vice Versa, with fiction and poetry from Chicago and Chicago-area writers.

A chapbook-style collection of poems about travel by Chicago-based poet and performer Maggie Rubin. Smoke and Mirrors Productions adapted four of the poems in this collection for the stage at the Loop Theatre in March 2004.

A chapbook-style collection of love poems by magazine writer Jennifer Brown Banks, founder of the South Side arts organization Poets United To Advance The Arts.

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.

John Phillips writes, as the cover of the zine indicates, "an anarchist analysis of Arizona's immigration law" (SB 1070, signed April 23, 2010, which gave Arizona police broad powers to detain anyone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally). Phillips is a Pennsylvanian, but the zine is distributed locally by South Chicago ABC Zine Distro of Homewood, IL.

A chapbook-style publication collecting two poems about Chicago by Joel Lipman, illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Chicago city life in the early 1980s. The poems are "Sweet Home Chicago" and "To Chicago."

A chapbook-style collection of poetry and writing about dance by Liz LeBlanc, with illustrations by Astrid Nordenstam and Karol Barske. The fourth in the Dialogues on Dance series by Ommation Press.