Tag Archives: Carolyn Rodgers

All Things Baldwin

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Richard Guzman

This post serves as an index for everything James Baldwin on this site.  Along with Ray Charles, James Baldwin has forever, it seems, guided me along my professional life as an English professor, and both have done at least as … Continue reading →

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Carolyn Rodgers Reads “Prodigal Objects”

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Richard Guzman

What a treat for Carolyn Rodgers fans. Below hear the great poet read her poem “Prodigal Objects,” September 1999, in a show at North Central College, Naperville, Illinois.  It was held to celebrate the release a few months earlier of … Continue reading →

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The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Richard Guzman

In mid-2009 Donald Evans, a Chicago writer, called me with an idea: a hall of fame for Chicago’s literary greats.  Because of two of my books—Smokestacks and Skyscrapers (with David Starkey) and Black Writing from Chicago—Don wanted me to be in the … Continue reading →

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