City of the big shoulders: an anthology of Chicago poetry

Acknowledgments

Editors Note

Routes / Kathryn Almy

At the Crawford Coal-Fired Rower Plant / Nin Andrews

Time Travel / Dori Appel

Chicago Deep Dish / Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz

Chicago's Monuments / Rane Arroyo

Hancock O'Hare / Michael Austin

Yes, We Can / Marvin Bell

Ted Stone Morning / Mary Grace Bertulfo

Postcard from Buddy Guy's Legends: Bar and Grill, Chicago / Allen Braden

I Saw You / John Bradley

The Last Fortune Teller of Chicago / John F. Buckley / Martin Ott

Sixteen / Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

Everything Is / Karen Carcia

Jean Baptiste / James E. Cherry

Sleeping with Carl / Susan Deer Cloud

Hotel Dana / James Conroy

Low Ride Elegy / Timothy Cook

Campus Taxi / Nina Corwin

Michael Jordan / Curtis L. Crisler

summer news / Mary Cross

Still Life with Zeno and File Footage / James D'agostino

Ravenswood / Stuart Dybek

Hibernation / Bart Edelman

Chicago Union Stockyards Circa 1957 / Susan Elbe

150 Years of Chicago Architecture / Dina Elenbogen

Cheo Saw an Angel on Division Street / Martín Espada

Loop / John W. Evans

Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field / Beth Ann Fennelly

Radar Ghosts / Michael Filimowicz

With My Blue Flowered Dress / Jennifer S. Flescher

Republic Steel Chicago South Works / Renny Golden

The Horses Run Back to Their Stalls / Linda Gregerson

38 Easy Steps to Carlyle's Everlasting Yea / John Guzlowski

Bible Belt / Terry Hamilton-Poore

The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window / Joy Harjo

Uncle Danny Brags about Playing Special Teams for the '85 Bears / Derrick Harriell

Dearborn North Apartments / Lola Haskins

In Michael Robins's class minus one / Bob Hicok

American Apocalypse / Edward Hirsch

Dear John Dillinger, / John Wesley Horton

on the other end. right there / Randall Horton

My Great-Grandfather Takes a Business Trip, c. 1912 / Ann Hudson

Road Trip / Donald Illich

Luminaria / Larry Janowski

Dear Chicago- / Philip Jenks / Simone Muench

One likes to think Chicago / Thomas L. Johnson

The Jewel / Richard Jones

Chicago Noise (Love Letter to Steve Albini) / Jarret Keene

Miniature Church / Susan Kelly-Dewitt

Under the Terrible Burden of Destiny Laughing as a Young Man Laughs / Becca Klaver

The Rainiest Day in Recorded Chicago History / Susanna Lang

At the Palmer House Hilton / Elizabeth Langemak

dead dead / Quraysh Alilansana

At the Sea Lion Pool / Anna Leahy

Chicago: City of Neighborhoods / Viola Lee

Emerald Ash / Brenna Lemieux

Seasonality of Violence / Francesco Levato

Chicago Noir / Gary Copeland Lilley

Too Much to Take In / Moira Linehan

How Should Chicago Be Governed? / Rachel Loden

Fermata Chicago / Marty Mcconnell

Sandburg Variations / Campbell McGrath

How to Hear Chicago / Paul Martínez Pompa

Jack Johnson Comes to Chicago / Adrian Matejka

Chicago / Erika Mikkalo

Noon outside the Music Mart: A Sestina / Wilda Morris

Ferris wheel at Navy Pier / Julie Parson Nesbitt

Lee Smith / Joey Nicoletti

Joumey / Barbra Nightingale

Chancing Upon the Manatees / Elise Paschen

A World of Our Own / Johanny Vázquez Paz

Tracks on the Ground, Tracks in the Sky / Todd James Pierce

Plattdeutsch / James Plath

The Chicago Daily Blues / Chad Prevost

Walk through Chicago's Loop, Winter, 2009 / Mark Prudowsky

Windy City / Christina Pugh

Second Sister Terrorizes Second City / Maya Quintero

At Shedd Aquarium / Robyn Schiff

Pigeon Lady / Teresa Scollon

Wishbone / Don Share

And Still, a Bird Is in Me / Vivian Shipley

Huck, with Music and Guns / Barry Silesky

Chicago / Patricia Smith

Meditation on a Shorewalk with Old Emil in the "Windy City" of My Youth / Dan Stryk

A Sheaf for Chicago / Lucien Stryk

Wall Painting in Chicago Bar: "Richard J. Daley, Mayor" / Richard Terrill

In the Intersection, Jackson and State / Tony Trigilio

Tourists and Bum, Art Institute of Chicago / Alpay Ulku

Run for Your Life / Judith Valente

Adagio Villanelle / Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody

Nighthawks Transfixed / Gale Renée Walden

Inheritance / Nicole Walker

Cloud Gate / Ellen Wehle

TheFacts as I Know Them / Scott Wiggerman

Blueaille / Katherine Williams

Fields / Martin Willitts

At the Library / Janet Wondra

Chicago Chronicle / Stephen Caldwell Wright

Chicago, / Brenda Yates

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