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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 with her life. She’s on a job in one of […]

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

    Review: Myriad Chicagos, Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, edited by Donald G. Evans and Robin Metz

    Summer mornings, in my West Side childhood, I would go out on our rickety second-story back porch, and, across the alley, on the worn, gray asphalt of the parking lot/school […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • June 13, 2022
    • Lit , Poetry , Reviews

    Book Review: A Kind of Poetry, The Fact of Memory, by Aaron Angello

    The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and FabricationsBy Aaron AngelloRose Metal Press In a piece titled “Think,” Aaron Angello tells of two conversations about what makes a poem a poem. In […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • May 3, 2022
    • Lit , Poetry , Reviews

    Review: Poetry Collection Darkness on the Face of the Deep Takes Risks with Emotional Depths

    Darkness on the Face of the Deep by Patrick T. Reardon Kelsay Books Review by Renny Golden In Darkness on the Face of the Deep, Third Coast Review writer Patrick […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 2, 2021
    • Lit , Nonfiction , Poetry , Uncategorized

    Review: “They Saved My Life”—Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language, New and Selected, by Haki R. Madhubuti

    Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language, New and Selected by Haki R. Madhubuti Third World Press One of my favorite poems in Haki R. Madhubuti’s new, career-spanning collection Taught […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • September 22, 2020
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Painting & sculpture , Photography

    Review: Exhibition by ACLU and Weinberg/Newton Gallery Explores Voting Rights in Multiple Media

    Jaclyn Conley, Those in Need of Hope

    The Weinberg/Newton Gallery in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) presents an exhibition on voting rights that is particularly relevant in this presidential election year. Anthem can be […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • September 16, 2020
    • Lit , Poetry

    Book Review: Everything Is Gone—Everything Must Go: The Life and Death of an American Neighborhood

    Everything Must Go: The Life and Death of an American Neighborhood By Kevin Coval and Langston Allston Haymarket Books What’s the best way to preserve a time and place? I […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • February 19, 2020
    • Lit , Poetry , Reviews

    Book Review: The Buddha in Racine—Saturday Night Sage by Noah C. Lekas

    Saturday Night Sage by Noah C. Lekas Blind Owl Reviewed by Carr Harkrader In Noah Lekas’ new poetry collection, Saturday Night Sage, Buddha’s divine path is paved over with Wisconsin […]

  • Guest Author
  • January 10, 2020
    • Lit , Poetry

    Book Review: Take Me to the Rivers—Renny Golden’s The Music of Her Rivers: Poems

    The Music of Her Rivers: Poems By Renny Golden University of New Mexico Press, 87 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon The Pueblo boy with “thick hair…the color of […]

  • Guest Author
  • December 12, 2019
    • Lit , Live lit events , Poetry

    Eve Ewing Untangles Time in New Poetry Collection 1919 Launched at Writers Museum

    By Ariel Parrella-Aureli Eve Ewing knows how to pack a room and capture the moment. With her goofy humor and charismatic energy, the local author, poet, and professor pleases anyone […]

  • Guest Author
  • June 15, 2019
    • Uncategorized

    Monster Portraits is Charmingly Inscrutable

    Monster Portraits is refreshingly original, starting with its unusual form. It’s a collaborative effort between brother and sister duo Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar: Del sets the foundation of the […]

  • Allison Manley
  • February 20, 2018
    • Music , Reviews

    Mykele Deville Drops Third Album in Two Years, And Isn’t Stopping Soon

    We haven’t seen a Chicago music scene like this before. With the newfound attention on our city following Chance The Rapper’s rise to fame, every artist in the city that […]

  • Matt Brooks
  • April 21, 2017
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