Contents
Eugene Debs Reads Marx in Prison
Reversing the Flow of the Chicago River
Society for Human Rights (America’s First Gay Rights Organization)
Gwendolyn Brooks Stands in the Mecca
Nelson Algren Meets Simone de Beauvoir at the Palmer House
Pickle with a Peppermint Stick
king daley Unfurls His burnham Plan
Martin Luther King Prays in Marquette Park
Carl Sandburg Village (Where My Parents Met)
The Assassination of Chairman Fred Hampton
Don L. Lee Becomes Haki Madhubuti
mayor byrne Moves Into & Out of Cabrini Green
Ron Hardy Plays the Record Backwards
The Assassination of Rudy Lozano
Marc Smith Invents the Poetry Slam
Graffiti Blasters: An Erasure (A Buff)
The Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act
The Supreme Court Makes Color Illegal
Ida B. Wells Testifies in the Ghost Town
How to Teach Poetry in Chicago Public Schools
Baby Come On: An Ode to Footwork
A Moratorium on the Death Penalty
Kanye Says What’s on Everybody’s Mind
I Wasn’t in Grant Park when obama Was Elected
Republic Windows Workers Sit In
The Night the Modern Wing Was Bombed
When King Louie First Heard the Word Chiraq
An Elegy for Dr. Margaret Burroughs
A Dedication to the Inaugural Poet
Chief Keef’s Epiphany at Lollapalooza
Teachers’ Strike in the Chicago Tradition
During Ramadan the Gates of Heaven Are Open
Ms. Devine Explains the Meaning of Modern Art: A Found Poem
Two Cities Celebrate Independence Day
Atoning for the Neoliberal in All
or rahm emanuel as the Chicken on Kapparot
The Night the Cubs Win the World Series