Category Archives: Writing

Margaret Danner: Ethereal Strength

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Richard Guzman

Margaret Danner (1915-1984) began winning poetry awards in the eighth grade.  In 1945 she won second prize in the Poetry Workshop Award at Northwestern, and went on to win such awards as a John Hay Whitney Fellowship (1951), the Harriet … Continue reading →

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Nelson Algren’s City on the Make

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Richard Guzman

The Video Below presents a performance by David Starkey and me of a passage from “Nobody Knows Where O’Connor Went,” the last chapter of Nelson Algren’s great prose poem Chicago: City on the Make. Shortly after Loyola Press/Wild Onion published our book Smokestacks … Continue reading →

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Nelson Algren: His Job, Chicago

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Richard Guzman

Although Nelson Algren was born in Detroit in 1909, his family moved to Chicago when he was three, and he lived in the city for most of his life.  Algren graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of … Continue reading →

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