Printers Row on Saturday: A Celebration of Community
Near the end of Saturday at this year’s Printers Row Lit Fest, an 80-year-old Italian painter from the North Shore…
Near the end of Saturday at this year’s Printers Row Lit Fest, an 80-year-old Italian painter from the North Shore…
When the world is literally on fire, who can think about writing? The present writer was reminded of Chicago author…
June Sawyers wrote this poem—as a way to record her experience—on a walk over to Soldier Field this weekend during…
Nobody knows anything about Homer except what’s in the Iliad and the Odyssey, and, even there, it gets dicey, as…
Puddin’ is a slim volume, small enough to tuck in a back pocket or a small purse. That size may suggest…
In her new book of poetry Woman without Shame, Sandra Cisneros looks aging in the face and laughs. She laughs at…
Reviewed by Michael Leach Patrick Reardon’s epic poem The Lost Tribes is a cri du coeur as thrilling for our…
Jerry and Estelle Cimino are on the road, spreading the Beat Gospel to the world. As founders of the Beat…
The title of Where Are the Snows, Kathleen Rooney’s new, award-winning collection of poetry, serves as both question and commentary…
Carla Sawyer is a tall, smart-alecky 21-year-old who’s working for a landscaping company until she figures out what to do…
The pain that S. Yarberry suffers as a transgender person is strikingly described in their new book of jagged, anguished…
It happened in Ferris Bueller’s hometown In the Mayberry of the Midwest I first heard about it while listening to…
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