| Title | Links | Published | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
You And I: Poems |
Harriet Monroe |
1914 |
| 2. |
Spoon River Anthology |
Edgar Lee Masters |
1915 |
| 3. |
“Fish Crier” Published in Chicago Poems. |
Carl Sandburg |
1916 |
| 4. |
“The Right to Grief” First published in Sandburg's collection Chicago Poems. |
Carl Sandburg |
1916 |
| 5. |
Carl Sandburg |
1916 | |
| 6. |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
1945 | |
| 7. |
47th Street |
Frank Marshall Davis |
1948 |
| 8. |
John Logan |
1955 | |
| 9. |
“The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock” |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
1957 |
| 10. |
“A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon” |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
1960 |
| 11. |
“The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till” Published in The Bean Eaters collection of poetry. |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
1960 |
| 12. |
In the Mecca |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
1968 |
| 13. |
Stuart Dybek |
1979 | |
| 14. |
The Aragon Ballroom A poem included in TriQuarterly (#60) and Dickson’s 1986 anthology, Waving at Trains. |
John Dickson |
1984 |
| 15. |
Clark Street Lullabye |
Julie Parson Nesbitt |
1985 |
| 16. |
The Neighborhood |
Tony Fitzpatrick |
1985 |
| 17. |
David Hernandez |
1991 | |
| 18. |
Wicked City Chicago |
Craig R. Sautter |
1994 |
| 19. |
Chicago in Adagio |
Curtiss Mortimer |
1996 |
| 20. |
Very Chicago |
Jose Bono |
1998 |
| 21. |
Tony Fitzpatrick |
2001 | |
| 22. |
Chicago Cantata |
Larry Jankowski |
2002 |
| 23. |
John Dickson |
2002 | |
| 24. |
Stuart Dybek |
2004 | |
| 25. |
The Urban Poems |
David Hernandez |
2004 |
| 26. |
Reginald Gibbons |
2010 | |
| 27. |
City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry |
Ryan G. Van Cleave (Ed.) |
2012 |
| 28. |
Nate Marshall |
2015 | |
| 29. |
“Narrative: Ali” Published in the collection Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin. |
Elizabeth Alexander |
2016 |
| 30. |
“Hog Butcher for the World” Published in A People's History of Chicago. |
Kevin Coval |
2017 |
| 31. |
Kevin Coval |
2017 | |
| 32. |
Eve L. Ewing |
2017 | |
| 33. |
“Children Listen” |
Roger Reeves |
2018 |
| 34. |
1919 |
Eve L. Ewing |
2019 |
| 35. |
Chris Green (Ed.) |
2020 | |
| 36. |
Marc Kelly Smith |
2020 | |
| 37. |
Ed Roberson |
2021 | |
| 38. |
Cortney Lamar Charleston |
2021 | |
| 39. |
Aviya Kushner |
2021 | |
| 40. |
Angela Jackson |
2022 | |
| 41. |
Donald G. Evans |
2022 | |
| 42. |
Pablo E. Ramirez |
2023 |
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