I’m thinking about the times I’ve seen Thomas Holton perform his poetry. I’ve been lucky enough to see him a handful of times on various open mic and literary stages […]
Here are a handful of literary events happening this month in Chicago and beyond. No fooling. Reading to Support the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights April 3, 2026, […]
With the opening of Robert Weinberg’s poem—“On North Broadway/Middle aged women roll their pushcarts into Rexalls”—you know you’re not in Kansas any more. Instead, you’re back nearly 40 years to a […]
Even before its release, Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine is something of a success. Rarely does a new arts and literary journal receive more than 300 submissions for its first call. […]
We hardly knew ye Or at the very least we took you for granted Even though your pedigree runs deep Alexander Hamilton gave you birth Despite your modesty You meant […]
Reviewed by Tori Rego To talk about Pretty Punks by Jessie McCarty, it is necessary to talk about W.B. Yeats. Like many, I’d venture to guess, I had not experienced […]
Review by Tori Rego. Since making their publishing debut in 2024, local independent arts magazine and press, Raging Opossum, has sought to distinguish itself through gathering emerging voices that share […]
Writer Patrick T. Reardon has applied his chops to everything from journalism to regular book reviews for TCR. But his latest work returns to one of his favorite literary forms—poetry. […]
Last fall, I had the pleasure of organizing a poetry reading with local poets on celebrating transformation, the unknown, and the changing of the seasons. It was then when I […]
The Right Hand, the latest poetry collection by Christina Pugh, possesses abstraction dancing with tradition, faith with the mystical, form that examines line and white space with the material body. […]
Capitalism abhors a creative gathering place—otherwise auto dealerships would put on poetry slams and hardware stores would host book clubs, wouldn’t they? While coffeehouses and restaurants often step up to […]
Conducted by Binx Perino I learned of Daniel Borzutzky’s work after reading Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). I had just moved to Chicago and was interested in the […]