Metz imagined a book of poems by Chicago poets. Evans pictured the book as a kind of story of the city itself, which could lead to poets referencing poets (and literary history), refrains ...

The poetry anthology Wherever I’m At, published this year, features more than 100 writers with connections to Chicago. Touted as a definitive collection of living local poets, its pages contain ...

If he uses the word “heart,” it’s likely a reference to the center ... head of the undergraduate poetry program at Columbia College Chicago: “I would say to be real. You could write ...

This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune ... with its grim references to the Holocaust. “Poetry was very much a part ...

Regarding those poems, Nicks also admitted to writing one about a Chicago P.D. star. “I also have so many poems that are ready to go,” Stevie Nicks told Rolling Stone. “I wrote a poem about ...

A form of poetry inspired by the news was born here in Chicago. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks coined the term “verse journalism,” which lets writers turn their opinions about the news into poems.

CHICAGO POEMS, published by Carl Sandburg in 1916, is an ode to a city. It’s a clear eyed and unapologetic love letter: where you tell your true-love you love them not in spite of their ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At a halfway house on ... Freedom," a book to be published this summer featuring photos and poems written by St. Leonard's residents. The photos were all taken by world-renowned ...