An Interview with Chicago’s Inaugural Poet Laureate avery r. young – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Chicago’s Inaugural Poet Laureate avery r. young – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate avery r. young is as remarkable, and multitudinous, and mesmerizing, as the city itself. His poetry is equally generative and multifaceted, and extends far beyond specific boundaries of language, music, performance, and visual art. At an essential level, young is both a remarkable individual, impassioned creator, and committed collaborator whose … Read more

Seminary Offsets Honors the Literary History of Chicago’s South Side with the Reissue of “Divine Days” – Chicago Review of Books

Seminary Offsets Honors the Literary History of Chicago’s South Side with the Reissue of “Divine Days” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] I am not so audacious as to claim there’s a single quality that weaves together all of us who love literature—readers, writers, booksellers, publishers, librarians, to name just a few. But whatever list of qualities we may come up with to describe everyone under the umbrella of books, high on that list would be … Read more