Essay

"Building from the pivotal discussions from the 1996 Active Resistance conference in Chicago, anarchist organizer James Mumm... [combines] anarchist politics and community organizing approaches." - from "Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements" By Chris Dixon (found on Google Books)

Chicago is built on a foundation of meat and railroads and steel, but its identity long ago stretched past manufacturing. A city of opportunity from the get-go, it continues to lure new residents from around the world, and from across a region rocked by recession and deindustrialization. But the problems that plague the Belt don’t disappear once you get past Gary. In fact, they’re often amplified. Chicago’s glittering downtown towers stand in sharp contrast to the struggling south and west sides. A city defined by movement that’s the anchor of the Midwest, bound to its neighbors by a shared ecosystem and economy, Chicago’s complicated – both of the Belt and beyond it. Which makes it a perfect subject for a book.

Short nonfiction. From inside cover: " Slag Glass City is a magazine of essay arts, textual burlesque, and post-industrial forms. We are a creative nonfiction and multidisciplinary media journal engaged with sustainability, identity and art in urban environments..."

Essays and short fiction on why read/who reads poetry.

Fiction in different formats, photography, art journal

Zine is part of a project that "highlights and activates physical materials found in public libraries." This issue contains photos from the Chicago Reader's touring musician publicity photo collection, along with an interview with Bob Sloane, the librarian in charge of collection development for the Visual and Performing Arts department at Harold Washington Library Center.

Essay documenting the 2011-2012 grassroots organizing to prevent a private Immigration & Customs Enforcement detention facility that was proposed for Crete, IL.

Zine describing artwork featured in a show of prisoner art at Multikulti gallery. Includes descriptions of artwork featured in the show and contact info for prisoner artists.

In Preparation is a black-and-white literary and art zine, published with generous support from the Writing Program at SAIC.

A zine of poetry created by a collective that visited the Read/Write Library in 2013. It focuses on motivational and self help poetry, containing at least one poem for each letter of the alphabet.