Adjacent: Oak Park’s Place in the Chicago Poetic Landscape

Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry features a large variety of artists from throughout the Chicago area. The poems move around, from Hyde Park to the West Side to the Gold Coast to Evanston, etc. Perhaps no neighborhood, or adjacent suburb, boasts better representation than Oak Park. The village boasts an enormously talented artistic community and heritage, some transplants, some natives. On Thursday, April 27, we celebrated Poetry Month at the Oak Park Public Library's main branch with a discussion about Oak Park and the poetic arts. Al DeGenova, Patricia McMillen, Rebecca Morgan Frank and Samina Hadi-Tabassum each read some poems before joining anthology editor Donald G. Evans in a discussion.