Playlist National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month
The World's Largest Youth Poetry Festival Goes Virtual
Daniel HautzingerChicago's Louder Than A Bomb is meant in part to "create bridges between communities that might not talk," and while it might lose some of communal energy from being forced online by the coronavirus, it can connect more students than ever.
The Chicago Magazine That Has Helped Define Poetry for the Past Century
Daniel HautzingerPoetry magazine has published most major poets of the last century and given many of them early breaks, from T.S. Eliot to Gwendolyn Brooks, Ocean Vuong, and Danez Smith. "Chicago," excerpts from Claudia Rankine's Citizen, and "anyone lived in a pretty how town" were first published in its pages.
