Poetry

Annual Collection of Poems and Dossier by English Dept of Columbia College Chicago

An anthology of poems written between 2011 and 2016 by the Chicago-based typewriter-poetry collective Poems While You Wait.

A collection of mostly short poems by a writer and experimental educator from Chicago Heights.

"Drag" is Duriel E. Harris's first collection of poetry, structured loosely as a musical composition and focused on themes including the body, sexuality, race, and Chicago.

In "Old Family Movies," Robert Kirschten writes poems about his upbringing and early family life in Chicago. A video separated into eleven scenes for eleven selected poems accompanies the book.

The 72 poems in this collection explore what it means to be human. Using carefully-crafted language, Cherry writes with the clarity of a journalist and the sensitivity of a woman. [from Amazon.com description]

"Lessons of Water and Thirst" chronicles the spontaneous education of a troubadour. In the white mirror of Paris and black mirror of Venice, adyta of Lydia and belly of Ireland, Fammeree began to assume responsibility for his spiritual health -- and played the varnish off a guitar. (back matter)

My Wicked, Wicked Ways is a book of poetry by Sandra Cisneros. "Here are verses, comic and sad, radiantly pure and plainspoken, that rise like songs from the hearts of men and women." -taken from the book jacket.