Stories Collection
- Laura S. Washington, editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter, was among seven jo...
- Margaret A. Cheap, former president and chief executive officer of ShoreBank Corp., d...
- The Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc. awarded the Reporter a $5,000 grant to sup...
- At a March 27 luncheon sponsored by the City Club of Chicago, a nonpartisan civic gro...
- As a more diverse America emerges, the time is ripe to scrap affirmative action, acco...
- African Americans, who may soon relinquish their largest minority status to Latinos, ...
- If Carl Sandburg were observing today's Chicago, he would find stark comparisons betw...
- Fighting to change the nation's current system of electing a president should top any...
- People of Asian descent play a significant role in shaping the American experience, a...
- Data released in March by the U.S. Department of Justice show new racial inequities i...
- Looking back at the Clinton presidency, the welfare reform act of 1996 shifted our an...
- Vanguard Media Inc., publisher of the now-defunct Emerge magazine, recently launched ...
- Britney is a playful little girl. By midmorning one Thursday in early January; she ha...
- The Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University has teamed up with Evans...
- More listeners tune in to WGCI-FM than any other radio station in Chicago. But the st...
- To the Editor:
MPC applauds The Chicago Reporter's in-depth analysis (November/Dece...
- Pamela A. Lewis, 28, has been named the new government and politics reporter at The C...
- Black sons, despite their parents' love and best hopes, are "endangered" in a world t...
- The next issue of The Chicago Reporter will feature the first of three articles focus...
- The country's 9 million African American baby boomers remain a huge, untapped marketi...
- The Chicago Housing Authority encourages families with children up to age 6 to have t...
- The concept of a black leader whose flock--a monolithic black America--will follow li...
- Northwestern University Professor Mary Pattillo-McCoy, an African American, was named...
- No one is born white in America, writes Thandeka, author of "Learning to be White: Mo...
- Kmart Corp. is being sued for illegal harassment at its far north suburban Zion store...
- The new U.S. Secretary of Labor, Elaine L. Chao, is an "unabashed believer in the Ame...
- The 1987 Illinois Juvenile Court Act, which requires that some young offenders be tra...
- McDonald, Alan V, Altamont, UT, 84001
Swenson, Edward J & Sharon H, Livingston, UT...
- McDonald, Alan V, Altamont, UT, 84001
Swenson, Edward J & Sharon H, Livingston, UT...
- A flair for the dramatic
Senior Gill always responded when Arrowhead needed him mo...
- MONUMENT - About seven months after a recall election reshaped the town government, v...
- For many Chicagoans, the sanest, safest way to celebrate the arrival of the new year ...
- Business Editors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000
Joint Venture to Expand...
- As increasing numbers of complex commercial disputes are submitted to arbitration, it...
- As a rule, college coaches do about as well in the National Football League (NFL) as ...
- Advice from John Wilkinson to Richard Thompson
My best advice to a 10-year youth min...
- Each day started with
dangerous even immoral
proficient in reading
boast of the ...
- how is this wing different perhaps it isnt if half of a unity the. the
tail tall gra...
- Jerzy Ficowski. Regions of the Great Heresy. Ed. and trans. Theodosia Robertson. NY:...
- A scarlet character firmly basted in place, I fetch and carry now only
for the sensu...
- He was in Berkeley under an
umbrella of rain
watching a rolling ballgame
wearing a...
- The live bootleg of Heavy Metal Meltdown
made them weep to a man, though they were
...
- Hardly paused for breath since
the island of Manhattan
has to anticipate
mostly se...
- im doing this twice the couple and in the couple there are two couples
the neg and t...
- Armantrout, Rae. Up to Speed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. 80 pp...
- Is a mixed state, agitation and depression, green eyes gleaming
fruitfully from the ...
- In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Tom Wolfe provides a description of Neal ...
- September heat wave evenings and gala patio receptions, waiters with
sterling trays ...
- The alarm in my heart is made of silly brass, some of us can't help but
mourn the en...
- by the little daggers of my dear, the very legitimate tendernesses of
his spirit/b...
- Jeff Clark. Music and Suicide. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004. 80 pp. $20
...
- along average city streets by the middle river in their proportionate
gestures. what...
- ... drawn by the
sheer
elasticity of that deep amber gaze, grew weight-
less, didn...
- This interview began with my review of Camille Guthrie's book The Master Thief (CR 4...
- Tragedy saunters to the pit, swinging its depth charge. If you had x-ray
vision you ...
- i reaffirm that the ground is reasonable
...oh that you might come back
such burnt ...
- D. A. Powell. Cocktails. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2004. 72 pp. $14
Parrot,...
- The honeysuckle weeps like a lesion. Zorba in her cups
hands me a sickle feather. Sh...
- of empty streets. No
rushing metal in sight.
Soft snowfall. No human tracks
leadin...
- The most interesting thing about The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov is...
- Continuing to rise, all that's written is "love," a cracked overture,
your...
- A. 1 Poetry/Prose
Torse 3: Poems 1948-61. London, Longmans, and New York, Harco...
- If the avant-garde in American poetry since the defeat of the United States in Viet ...
- Dear Grandmother. Zorba is at it again. She's fat as a sow.
I threw her into the bas...
- der leeren Strassen. Kein
eilfertiges Blech in Sicht.
Sanfter Schneefall. Keine Fus...
- It was not my dog that bit off the stranger's arm.
I may care for the dog and feed t...
- If I appear to play the violin, it's only to keep my head on. Everything
heavy falls...
- Utah, Canyonlands, Near Needles. 2003. Pastel on paper. 17 X 14 1/2 in.
[ILLUS...
- Like an identity-theft victim in a Citibank credit card commercial, Kent Johnson ope...
- I
With my face dirtied. With a handful of silver nuggets
perennial. I took Zorba. I...
- So you are greeted
in wintered caves
by mute silence
dampness and dark
and your s...
- "You can want to do nothing and then decide instead to do this:
make leek soup....
- "Rabbits on the grass" like "all his good women," an effect like ...
- There is much talk abroad in the land, over the endive and radicchio in places like ...
- If we are meant to part, then we will with courage,
ringing the bell and calling the...
- From then on, Zorba called me "Princess of Quite-a-Lot."
She said my body ...
- Serial killer Oreo cookie stacking competition plug
climax the extras are extra ca...
- A life that wasn't was--
saw it in half, sewn to scribble.
Tried in halves with wor...
- The following text is based on recordings made in October 2002 and in July 2003 when...
- I prefer to imagine sailors pre-1795,
before James Lind discovered the miracle of ci...
- Proof too in maximum sentence
to max out or tally names on stones;
a sunset by beac...
- Unspoiled, most schedules fly here:
the flies leave the fields, the fields
lie fall...
- Ice on an ice cave.
I guessed you knew that.
Done thought thinks you was been a min...
- Shadows thrown by people on a wall,
A fragile charm, and they stand upright.
More...
- He was a small bastard so I ate him. I mean literally. Like a movie or a
trip to tow...
- In the head rush
I saw the carpet numbers, and the numbers
of all foods were networ...
- The world will soon break up into
small colonies of the saved
--Robert Bly
T...
- I
Learnt a flutter from the pavement
where Math or Bird navigate.
for cant say y...
- Andrzej Stasiuk. Tales of Galicia. Trans. Margarita Nafpaktitis. Prague: Twisted Spo...
- first law: [DELTA]U = Q + W
the primary (1) statement of bodies (2) in relation...
- It goes from snow to rain without anapaests
or riven wheels of security, the hotfoot...
- You are the toy delivered at daybreak,
conundrum to a storm of checkmarks,
and st...
- 1.
But the Sahara isn't all sand
bare-scrubbed plains, barren
soil, thorn, broken ...
- As a moon might have been
a mood made and dripped
moon of coalescence
moon halfway...
- Misfire or surprise leaks
nimble lies. They do
it all in their tortoise
cells. The...
- Take that and that and that and that and--
A kid repeatedly kicks a dog near where...
- God
created the world
to suit the needs of
floods
and television.
There, Alexa...
- Present arms
I am staying in a tourist
Hotel that looks on the bay
The water is ...
- Michael McClure. Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven. Oakland: O Books, 2002. 103 pp....
- Author's Preface
The small volume now before you holds within a brief space a v...
- Louis Zukofsky enrolled as a freshman at Columbia University in January 1920, a few ...
- The walk-in beckons moony and sass,
make-out light quivers oblique in a far
corne...
- Chapter V
Twilight had come while we were listening to the professor, who, pre...
- Garbled thief of Heaven high and so
the angels go with their good positions--
The h...
- Andrew Joron. Fathom. New York: Black Square Editions, 2003. 115 pp. $12.95
Mu...
- The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Edited by Barry Ah...
- You can, as the Russian said, "contradict the fool."
You can do this somet...
- the enigma of the plural impasse
--Barrett Watten
where there is a "father...
- And later just to look into their papers,
half-read in their lifetime, letters--
if...
- My first encounter with the poetry of Arthur Sze was in the now defunct journal Coun...
- Slow to anger I mine own calm.
Draw dukes in a game of wild deuces.
Show lush spr...
- Eugene Wildman. The World of Glass. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, ...
- A few years ago, in response to the first complete translation into Chinese of Pound...
- on the evolution its circus the abuse of what made
monstrous ...
- Is this why I stand at my oeil-de-boeuf,
blowing sugar bubbles at that guy
in the s...
- "Pray to Persephone,
Dread Queen
of being changed totally."
The gods...
- 1
One rooster cannot weave a morning.
He will always need other roosters:
one to c...
- Cowboys bare their bowlegged teeth:
"Ah gotcha dis littah pinky hyer."
...
- Dear Editor,
I am writing regarding Andrea Brady's response to New British Poe...
- When the year is young, when vain Aquarius washes his mane, when frost copycats its ...
- A soul is like a line, then--
one-dimensional?
The other nouns suggest
that we e...
- home is somewhere else
the good island beats
its head above water
far where the lo...
- It is unlikely
and therefore it is not.
Being can be a deprivation,
love, a loss. ...
- II
The blank page
won't let me dream;
it incites me to clear
and exact poetry.
...
- Guess agin.
Well done, good and faithful.
I'll take a
vow. El Shabbazz,
Bar, Ba...
- Lucia Berlin died on her 68th birthday, November 12, 2004. Though she was older than...
- A very small hole where the eye
reaches the eye or is it another
eye in a very smal...
- There remains one virtually unexplored territory in basic research on Louis Zukofsky...
- 1
Ramps Bridge named
after Jacob or named after ford on the creek or
small river a...
- maeg ic be me sylfum sothgied wrecan
"The Seafarer"
Losing I can accept...
- Our rallies had gone famously
in Ballarat and Castlemaine.
There was no power outsi...
- Renee Gladman. The Activist. San Francisco: Krupskaya, 2003. 145 pp. $11
One o...
- The hour trembles at the bottom of a time that is out of joint
A bright quick bird...
- He who finds a knot
in himself
where a soft expanse should be
will want to tell ...
- When champion-bred
leaves lie splayed
like minimum wage
sin, when sleep,
a rainco...
- "So it did"
turn of phrase of local parlance
what's said at the end of ...
- An epicenter in the snow
would not let us make impressions
so I ask you Sandburg ...
- a breeze of rowan lifts
a pale curtain of cloud
where hawks stake a claim
to a dri...
- Andrew Zawacki. By Reason of Breakings. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 200...
- A sweet bird shows me the light
That is in his eyes. I can see it well.
He sings on...
- Even now poetic men still seek the limits of knowledge, indeed
preferably of ske...
- prickle & shake nervous & high
Yo-ho--Pan's here Pan
walk on the water
cli...
- Morning on earth, light snow, and just when
it was so warm, practically spring.
But...
- Do you mind if I call you that? It's a pretty flower after all--a simple, erect, sti...
- an embattled horizon
and a silk storm of subtle rain at the window
I thought was yo...
- 1. Before the flood, unload your brains.
Avant le deluge, desarmez les cervau...
- The complete Catullus he made in collaboration with Celia Zukofsky and "A"...
- Love read the name of this book before I had written a sentence
--Ovid
... Take n...
- 1
I lit seven oil lamps.
I lit seven bedside lamps.
I lit seven glassy white lamps...
- We ride the ridge, by track and tunnel,
then after a while
descend, but first
ther...
- D.A. Powell is one of the most inventive young poets working today. Author of Tea (W...
- I was thrilled this morning to receive the Dorn issue of Chicago Review [49:3/4 &...
- Does the concept of art do useful work, or is it now primarily a defensive political...
- Louis Zukofsky carried on an energetic correspondence from the late 1920s until his ...
- with what we may hit him
--Socrates
If we reflect on things as we left them
Be a...
- Though few people are aware of the fact, Ralph J. Mills, Jr., is one of the most acu...
- I have discharged the trust of my sufferings unto you,
which hath been simply and pu...
- Apropos of combating
lag and mumble, somnolence,
and a madness like a bad name,
th...
- Michael Heller. Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publish...
- Alastair Johnston. Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography. Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 2003. 2...
- Nineteen nights straight my walk's here
where I can imagine lit Seattle,
heaped-u...
- My life is filled with the din of whistling leaves
The tiny flowers in the garden of...
- Low hills carved into terraces
neglected now, wild grass. Trans-
sylvanian air, a m...
- Certain people try to make my cancer grow,
They seek to feed it, I can feel their un...
- Zephyrus Image press in San Francisco was the brainchild of Holbrook Teter and Micha...
- Tom Clark. Edward Dorn: A World of Difference. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2002....
- there was also a hazel tree and a mulberry that stood in the dark above
the unkempt ...
- Fatso has died who could inflate
bicycle tires with his lungs
he used to get drunk ...
- First, attending to the basics,
and then pursuing an abstraction or two,
or strummi...
- On being offered a room of my own,
the chance to take some notes,
a television/VCR ...
- (a poetry workshop at The Naropa Institute, Boulder, 6/13/1977)
Throughout his di...
- Thus it might be argued that when a painting is "finished," it is a
co...
- I
What a strange poet Robinson Jeffers was. Lyrically striking if frequently o...
- she was out hanging laundry
it was morning
I was upstairs watching through the wind...
- SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE--The floor belongs to the president of the Republican Council. ...
- Down the road from where the spray-on gloss was applied to the tires,
the headli...
- Weighed in at 144, slight loss
Anglo Saxon measure of about ten lbs.
underweight bu...
- In the summer of 1965 Edward Dorn attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference, substitut...
- The following is a rejoinder to Don Paterson's corrosive introduction to New British...
- The prophets told me to put I'm putting these peaches into this Arizona
desert basem...
- among some bits of litter
for example a bottle cap with sorry written in the hollow ...
- Already confirmed in his pre-eminence by the public's
judgment, which would finally ...
- Relish the complexity more likely
To be the question "are we fighting?"
T...
- The drugs are way over-priced, but
they are scripted and dispensed
as if they're am...
- By the 1990s, Ed Dorn had honed a sharp distinction between "poet" and &qu...
- Devin Johnston. Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice. Mid...
- "The extrication of self is the politic of perception"
--Christopher...
- made of pine tar, clotted
book.
Forest blood drunk
dry, trickled away,
forebe...
- And you who are
when you were going to be
not a line of this work
but a sacrifice ...
- Can the clothes you have to crawl out of your skin to shed
provide us with a deeper ...
- In December of '99, when I first heard that Ed Dorn was dead at seventy of pancreati...
- Dorn's letters are his autobiography (as David Southern says in his essay that follo...
- Robert Pinsky. Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry. Princeton: Princeton Uni...
- I like it here in the southern Appalachians. It's a whole hell of a lot better than ...
- undyed pants of the
conqueror of the exotic
world, straight razor, chess
pieces ...
- The people desire their ways be looked into
but won't come up with any names
at the...
- Insofar as she has a church, I'm a heretic.
but she doesn't have a church, he has on...
- This interview, first published in Chicago Review 39:1 (1993), took place at Dorn's ...
- My tribe came from struggling labor
Depression South Eastern Illinois
Just before t...