Tag Archives: Black Writing from Chicago

Chicago Writers List

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Richard Guzman

This list of Chicago Writers provides easy access to, and an overview of, articles about them on this site.  It’s based on the writers David Starkey and I included in our 1999 book Smokestacks & Skycrapers, and also contains some writers based on … Continue reading →

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The Black Chicago Renaissance

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Richard Guzman

In the opening line of her introduction to The Black Chicago Renaissance, Darlene Clark Hine writes that “beginning in the 1930’s and lasting into the 1950’s, black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that rivaled and, some argue, exceeded the cultural … Continue reading →

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Sterling Plumpp: Survival Blues

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Richard Guzman

Born in rural Mississippi in 1940, Sterling Plumpp has for thirty years taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and produced a body of poetry giving him considerable claim to be one of the country’s most distinguished blues-jazz poets. Somber … Continue reading →

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