Category Archives: Chicago Writing
Mark Turcotte: Songs for the Endless Others
Poet Mark Turcotte (b. 1958) spent his earliest years on North Dakota’s Turtle Mountain reservation and in several migrant camps in the western U.S. Drawn to Chicago in 1993, partly because of the city’s thriving poetry scene, he established himself … Continue reading
Frank London Brown: Can White Folks Get It?
So well-received was Frank London Brown’s first novel Trumbull Park (1959), that critic Sterling Stuckey wrote: “…along with Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun and Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious, [it] signaled the advent of a new and brilliant flowering of … Continue reading
Regie Gibson: “the blooz man is i”
Perhaps the most electric slam poet in America, Regie Gibson (b. 1966) has, among many honors, won the 1997 money slam and the 1998 individual slam title. He and his work have been featured in the Theodore Witcher film love … Continue reading