Category Archives: Writing
Defiant Acts
This article is part of two large series, one on CHICAGO WRITERS, and one on BLACK WRITERS. Most of these come from two of my Chicago books—Smokestacks and Skyscrapers (with David Starkey) or Black Writing from Chicago, and there’s some … Continue reading
Cleo and Jimmy: A Note on James T. Farrell
This article is part of a long series on Chicago writers, most of which David Starkey and I put into our anthology of Chicago writing titled Smokestacks and Skyscrapers. The complete list of writers can be found Here. Also, go … Continue reading
Poetry and the Police
I have told the following story many, many times but never written it down. And this writing follows a circuitous path involving two poets celebrated in the Video below: Ada Limon and Major Jackson. The Video shows two of their … Continue reading →