Chicago Literature Index — Poetry

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 1.  You And I: Poems
Harriet Monroe
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1914 Pt
 2.  Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
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1915 Pt
 3.  “Fish Crier”

Published in Chicago Poems.

Carl Sandburg
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1916 Pt
 4.  “The Right to Grief”

First published in Sandburg's collection Chicago Poems.

Carl Sandburg
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1916 Pt
 5.  Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg
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1916 Pt
 6.  A Street in Bronzeville
Gwendolyn Brooks
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1945 Pt
 7.  47th Street
Frank Marshall Davis
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1948 Pt
 8.  Cycle for Mother Cabrini
John Logan
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1955 Pt
 9.  “The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock”
Gwendolyn Brooks
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1957 Pt
 10.  “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon”
Gwendolyn Brooks
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1960 Pt
 11.  “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till”

Published in The Bean Eaters collection of poetry. 

Gwendolyn Brooks
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1960 Pt
 12.  In the Mecca
Gwendolyn Brooks
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1968 Pt
 13.  Brass Knuckles
Stuart Dybek
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1979 Pt
 14.  The Aragon Ballroom

A poem included in TriQuarterly (#60) and Dickson’s 1986 anthology, Waving at Trains

John Dickson
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1984 Pt
 15.  Clark Street Lullabye
Julie Parson Nesbitt
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1985 Pt
 16.  The Neighborhood
Tony Fitzpatrick
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1985 Pt
 17.  Rooftop Piper
David Hernandez
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1991 Pt
 18.  Wicked City Chicago
Craig R. Sautter 1994 Pt
 19.  Chicago in Adagio
Curtiss Mortimer 1996 Pt
 20.  Very Chicago
Jose Bono 1998 Pt
 21.  Bum Town
Tony Fitzpatrick
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2001 Pt
 22.  Chicago Cantata
Larry Jankowski 2002 Pt
 23.  Lake Michigan Scrolls
John Dickson
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2002 Pt
 24.  Streets in Their Own Ink
Stuart Dybek
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2004 Pt
 25.  The Urban Poems
David Hernandez
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2004 Pt
 26.  Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories
Reginald Gibbons
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2010 FSSPt
 27.  City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
Ryan G. Van Cleave (Ed.) 2012 Pt
 28.  Wild Hundreds
Nate Marshall
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2015 Pt
 29.  “Narrative: Ali”

Published in the collection Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin.

Elizabeth Alexander 2016 Pt
 30.  “Hog Butcher for the World”

Published in A People's History of Chicago.

Kevin Coval 2017 Pt
 31.  A People’s History of Chicago
Kevin Coval
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2017 Pt
 32.  Electric Arches
Eve L. Ewing
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2017 Pt
 33.  “Children Listen”
Roger Reeves
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2018 Pt
 34.  1919
Eve L. Ewing
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2019 Pt
 35.  American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans
Chris Green (Ed.)
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2020 Pt
 36.  Ground Zero: A Collection of Chicago Poems
Marc Kelly Smith
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2020 Pt
 37.  Asked What Has Changed
Ed Roberson
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2021 Pt
 38.  Doppelgangbanger
Cortney Lamar Charleston
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2021 Pt
 39.  Wolf Lamb Bomb
Aviya Kushner
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2021 Pt
 40.  More Than Meat and Raiment
Angela Jackson
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2022 Pt
 41.  Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
Donald G. Evans
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2022 Pt
 42.  Pocho Love: Pilsen Heart Beats to Chicago Streets
Pablo E. Ramirez
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2023 Pt