Poetry

The Read/Write Library's very own zine with information about us, and submissions from some of our volunteers.

A Collection of poems.

Making Choices combines the voices of those who are incarcerated at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, Cook County Jail and other institutions throughout the state. It is published as a means to give a voice to those who wish to speak out. It is a project of Kolbe House, the Catholic Jail Ministry. *

"Chicago IRL (In Real Life) is an arts and literary digest cataloging contemporary queer creative culture in Chicago. We hope not only to document existing queer talent but also to inspire new collaborations and explorations. Although much of our coordination uses the internet to connect us with contributors, we desire to encourage new interactions in real life as well. Chicago IRL is a zine made by and for the disenchanted, hopeful, and unemployed revolutionaries, muppets, and magicians to capture the spirit of a new dawn, whatever that means."

Insecurities is a poetry comic zine.

Time To Go: a Collection of Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School Student Art and Creative Writing is an annual collection of poetry and art.

The Logan Square Literary Review is a quarterly journal collecting pieces by Logan Square area artists.

Closer to the Earth is a collection of poetry by chicago poet Lynn Fitzgerald

"Artifice is a nonprofit literary magazine, published twice annually, that aims, by content and context, to showcase creative work aware of its own artifice. The things we like, we like more than we can stand."

Jessica Savitz's poems are imbued with a strange, skeptical mysticism, in which a visionary impulse is interrupted, again and again, by anxious self-reflection. The mute orders are given voice, as Whitman directed, "without check with original energy," while emblems of over-refinement are returned to the realm of the organic: "Speech comes out fur-lined." Savitz's buoyant, melancholy, ungainly voice, with echoes of folklore, medieval romance, Spanish surrealism, Delta blues, Black Mountain poetics, and teh motley metaphysics of contemporary life, is a marvel of invention. Savitz is a genre unto herself.