Poetry

Collection of student writing from 1-12th grade that are part of the 826Chi Chicago-based nonprofit started by Dave Eggers.

Inside MAKE #16, “ARCHIVE,” you will find stories, poems, essays, conversations and visual art oriented around concepts of memory, preservation, photo negatives and negative hands, disappearing/reappearing faces, letters sent and never received, lost and recovered traces; in short, the archive (or its simulacrum). One is reminded of Jacques Derrida’s “Archive Fever”: “The concept of the archive shelters in itself, of course, this memory of the name arkhe [rule, government, beginning, origin, first place]. But it also shelters itself from this memory which it shelters: which comes down to saying also that it forgets it.” Archives are assembled to remember a first place, an origin site that houses historical codes and modes of order, but they are also, weirdly, selective mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion that strategically forget, reassemble or reorder the objects of memory. An archive remembers inasmuch as it forgets, stores away (for later), blurs, and obscures. The archive you will encounter in these pages is one that plays with these notions, and we hope you will enjoy it.

The word that had many voices -- Storm King Mountain -- Father -- The alchemist's stone -- If beggar boys were shamans -- A mountain in a suitcase -- Symmetries -- A matter of degrees -- Twenty years of empty spaces -- Unforgiving -- At christmas just before midnight -- In age -- Snowball, Gregory Corso and a village stoop -- Translucence -- Dead people -- Being born of bone -- Fossil -- Full moon above main street -- Ka-Ching! -- STROKE! -- Leaves and spit -- Ramses visits the cradle of democracy -- Masks and carved animals -- Wallpaper memories -- Rivers in the ocean -- An arborist's taxonomy -- The intensity of light -- The hand-off -- Proud ilium -- Nationbuilding -- The gates are set to close -- Little cowboys geniuses -- Fine bone China -- Tthe little things -- Not time -- With no return addresses -- Helios -- What light? -- Nanotechnology man -- V Roadhouse restaurant & girll -- Where colors end -- Asking forgiveness -- Obesrving the constellations in grand central -- Along the back roads from Illinois to Pennsylvania -- After sundown at Rye Beach -- Where the farthest galaxies roar into nothingness -- Best not to know a town too well -- In the beginning.

Collection of poetry centered around the themes of romance and death.

Where Does Poetry Hide? is a collection of poems from the fall 2001 Performance Poetry Workshop, a collaboration between Gallery 37 and Young Chicago Authors, featuring students from Westinghouse Career Academy.

An anthology of poetry and fiction writing from Chicago youth enrolled in the Prism Workshops offered by the Guild Complex from 1997-2001. The contributors, ages 14-21, were participants in 6 week summer writing and mentorship workshops. The foreword is by Luis J. Rodriguez.