Poetry

Poetry by African-American female writer. From back cover:" This long-awaited compendium of works by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs will blow your mind with its delirious play of signs, its cultural repurposings and reclaimings, its endlessly spinning polyglot wheel, and its breezy repertoire of ribald, faux-naif cyberfolk myth-science. With dazzling rigor and imagination, Ms. Diggs shares with us a view from Harlem that shines a knowing light on every place in the observable universe. To read these works is to feel the world in mid-transformation (words by Vijay Iyer).

Poetry written in free, modern style by a black/African-American female writer. From back cover:"This long-awaited compendium of works by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs will blow your mind with its delirious play of signs, its cultural repurposings and reclaimings, its endlessly spinning polyglot wheel, and its breezy repertoire of ribald, faux-naif cyberfolk myth-science. With dazzling rigor and imagination, Ms. Diggs shares with us a view from Harlem that shines a knowing light on every place in the observable universe. To read these works is to feel the world in mid-transformation. (words by Vijay Iyer)

The literary magazine of the College of DuPage. Short fiction, poetry, prose, essays.

Jun Fujita (1888-1863) was a poet and photographer born outside of Hiroshima, Japan. As a teenager, he emigrated to Canada where he worked as a laborer and train porter in British Columbia. By 1909 he had made his way to Chicago, where he found employment briefly as an actor, and the more enduringly as a photographer for the Chicago Evening Post. In the twenties, Fujita's poems began appearing in Poetry, and in 1923 he published his only book, Tanka: Poems in Exile. Although Fujita is remembered for taking some of the most indelible and horrifying images of the early twentieth century, in his poems and private photography his central fascination was with the natural world. Writing about his relationship to wild flowers, Fujita notes: "I feel that moods are beyond the reach of the camera. But I feel words are too crude for the delicate moods of wild flowers. Whether I have succeeded in portraying the moods of these wild flowers I am not sure. I am trying."

Lynn Behrendt grew up in Pearl River, New York, and Chester, Vermont and graduated from Bard College with a BA in Creative Writing. She is the author of four chapbooks: The Moon As Chance, Characters, Tinder, and Luminous Flux. She co-edits the Annandale Dream Gazette, a chronicle of poets' dreams, as well as Peep/Show Poetry, an electronic journal of innovative serial works. She publishes limited edition handmade books under the Lines Chapbooks imprint in Red Hook, New York, where she lives and works as a freelance write and editor.

Poetry by African American female author. Winner of 2005 Solidarity Series collection award.

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.

Poetry is a literary journal comprised of poems focused on culture. It was founded in 1912 by Harriet Moore.

Poetry is a literary journal comprised of poems focused on culture. It was founded in 1912 by Harriet Moore.

"Excerpts from Urban Haiku appear in Nicole Franklin’s When Sistas Jump film on Double Dutch rope. Regina has received awards from 3Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest; Arts Midwest; Illinois Arts Council Agency; Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events; Chicago Public Library; and ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers)." (abstract taken from https://3arts.org/artist/regina-harris-baiocchi/)