Uncle Joe was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The cardboard boxes littered the floor, filled with Joe’s tools, Joe’s college textbooks, Joe’s albums and manuals, Joe’s CDs, Joe’s tax returns, Joe’s unfinished projects, and all manner of Joe’s mess and memorabilia, stacked in a circle radiating outwards from a […]
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A silence louder than words
How allegations of sexual abuse exposed cracks in the foundation of Young Chicago Authors, Free Write Arts & Literacy, and the city’s spoken word community
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The ten best Chicago books of 2020
Add these stories rooted in the city to your reading list.
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25 local books to stock your shelves
Add these new reads by and about Chicagoans to your list.
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Operation Hennessy digs a new channel for Chicago hip-hop
Keen-eyed rapper Qari hooks up with producer Green Sllime for Operation Hennessy—and opens the floodgates on his friend’s reservoir of irreverent old-school beats.
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No Blue Memories, Significant Other, and seven more stage shows to see now
There’s a raft of recommended new plays this week.
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Manual Cinema turns Gwendolyn Brooks into poetry magic
With the help of Eve Ewing, Nate Marshall, and Jamila and Ayanna Woods, the performance collective creates an immersive audiovisual event out of the poet’s life story.
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Chicago is Eve Ewing’s home, and her art
The U. of C. professor and Twitter star’s genre-defying debut book is the first part of a long-term creative project.
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The second annual Chicago Poetry Block Party proves that poetry belongs to everyone
Founded by Chicago-based poets Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall, the Chicago Poetry Block Party proves that “poetry is not a luxury.”
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A people’s history of Kevin Coval
Louder Than a Bomb cofounder Kevin Coval in the words of people in Chicago’s poetry, spoken-word, and hip-hop scenes whose lives he’s touched
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Poetry in the age of hip-hop
The new anthology Breakbeat Poets showcases poetry by and for the hip-hop generation.