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So they left and got drinks. Metz told Evans one of the biggest deficits in the poetry world was the lack of a definitive, contemporary anthology of Chicago poetry. New York had one. Los Angeles, too.

“I wrote a poem about one of the women stars of one of my favorite crime shows, Chicago P.D. That’s medicine for me, and I can’t wait to go to the piano and sit down with it,” Nicks added.