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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…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • September 9, 2023
  • Events, Fiction, Lit, Live lit events, Nonfiction, Poetry

Preview: Inspiration for Burned-Out Writers at Northwestern’s Summer Writers’ Conference, July 21–22

When the world is literally on fire, who can think about writing? The present writer was reminded of Chicago author…

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • July 2, 2023
  • Lit, Music, Poetry

Poem: Taylor Knows

June Sawyers wrote this poem—as a way to record her experience—on a walk over to Soldier Field this weekend during…

  • June Sawyers
  • June 5, 2023
  • Art & Museums, Lit, Nonfiction, Poetry

Review: The Epic Question Mark of Western Lit, Homer: The Very Idea, by James I. Porter

Nobody knows anything about Homer except what’s in the Iliad and the Odyssey, and, even there, it gets dicey, as…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • May 8, 2023
  • Lit, Poetry

Review: Puddin’: The Autobiography of a Baby, A Memoir in Prose Poems, by Patrick T. Reardon

Puddin’ is a slim volume, small enough to tuck in a back pocket or a small purse. That size may suggest…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 3, 2023
  • Chicago history, Chicago history, Lit, Poetry

Review: Laughing at the Race with No Rules, Woman Without Shame, by Sandra Cisneros

In her new book of poetry Woman without Shame, Sandra Cisneros looks aging in the face and laughs. She laughs at…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 10, 2022
  • Lit, Poetry

Review: Singing the Song of Us—The Lost Tribes, by Patrick T. Reardon

Reviewed by Michael Leach Patrick Reardon’s epic poem The Lost Tribes is a cri du coeur as thrilling for our…

  • Guest Author
  • September 30, 2022
  • Fiction, Interviews, Lit, Live lit events, Nonfiction, Poetry

Interview: Feeling Beatific—Jerry Cimino of the Beat Museum/Beatmobile

Jerry and Estelle Cimino are on the road, spreading the Beat Gospel to the world. As founders of the Beat…

  • Dan Kelly
  • September 10, 2022
  • Lit, Poetry, Reviews

Review: Kathleen Rooney’s Where Are the Snows Meets the Present with Wry Humor and Hope

The title of Where Are the Snows, Kathleen Rooney’s new, award-winning collection of poetry, serves as both question and commentary…

  • Caitlin Archer-Helke
  • August 19, 2022
  • Fiction, Lit, Poetry

Review: Making Friends With a Poet, The Poet’s House, by Jean Thompson

Carla Sawyer is a tall, smart-alecky 21-year-old who’s working for a landscaping company until she figures out what to do…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • August 15, 2022
  • Lit, Poetry, Reviews

Review: Poetry Jagged and Anguished, A Boy in the City, by S. Yarberry

The pain that S. Yarberry suffers as a transgender person is strikingly described in their new book of jagged, anguished…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • July 26, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Front page, Lit, Poetry

Poem for Today: Freedom

It happened in Ferris Bueller’s hometown In the Mayberry of the Midwest I first heard about it while listening to…

  • June Sawyers
  • July 6, 2022
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