Lasalle wrote it down wrong
The Father is a Black man
Hog butcher for the world
Eugene Debs reads Marx in prison
Reversing the flow of the Chicago River
The murder of Eugene Williams
Society for Human Rights (America's first gay rights organization)
Thomas Dorsey, gospel's daddy
Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the mecca
Muddy Waters goes electric
Nelson Algren meets Simone de Beauvoir at the Palmer House
Pickle with a peppermint stick
Sun Ra becomes a synthesizer
Mamie Till bears the movement
King Daley unfurls his Burnham plan
The Division Street riots
Martin Luther King prays in Marquette Park
Studs Terkel drops a mixtape
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 etymology of Chicago Joe
The Supreme Court makes color illegal
Ida B. Wells testifies in the ghost town
How to teach poetry in Chicago public schools
Lenard Clark pedals for air
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 Neo-liberal in all or Rahm Emanuel as the chicken on Kapparot
The night the Cubs win the World Series
