| Title | Author/Editor | Published | Categories | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
You And I: Poems |
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe link |
1914 | Pt |
| 2. |
Spoon River Anthology |
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters link |
1915 | Pt |
| 3. |
“Fish Crier” Published in Chicago Poems. |
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg link |
1916 | Pt |
| 4. |
“The Right to Grief” First published in Sandburg's collection Chicago Poems. |
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg link |
1916 | Pt |
| 5. |
Chicago Poems |
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg link |
1916 | Pt |
| 6. |
The Road of a Naturalist |
Donald Culross Peattie | 1941 | NFMAPt |
| 7. |
A Street in Bronzeville |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1945 | Pt |
| 8. |
47th Street |
Frank Marshall Davis
Frank Marshall Davis link |
1948 | Pt |
| 9. |
Cycle for Mother Cabrini |
John Logan
John Logan link |
1955 | Pt |
| 10. |
“The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock” |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1957 | Pt |
| 11. |
“A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon” |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1960 | Pt |
| 12. |
“The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till” Published in The Bean Eaters collection of poetry. |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1960 | Pt |
| 13. |
In the Mecca |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1968 | Pt |
| 14. |
What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black |
Margaret T. Burroughs
Margaret T. Burroughs link |
1968 | NovPt |
| 15. |
Don’t Cry, Scream |
Haki R. Madhubuti
Haki Madhubuti link |
1969 | Pt |
| 16. |
Paper Soul |
Carolyn Rodgers
Carolyn Rodgers link |
1969 | Pt |
| 17. |
Songs of a Blackbird |
Carolyn Rodgers
Carolyn Rodgers link |
1969 | Pt |
| 18. |
Brass Knuckles |
Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek link |
1979 | Pt |
| 19. |
Primer for Blacks |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1980 | Pt |
| 20. |
To Disembark |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1981 | SSMAPt |
| 21. |
The Aragon Ballroom A poem included in TriQuarterly (#60) and Dickson’s 1986 anthology, Waving at Trains. |
John Dickson
John Dickson link |
1984 | Pt |
| 22. |
Clark Street Lullabye |
Julie Parson Nesbitt
Julie Parson Nesbitt link |
1985 | Pt |
| 23. |
The Neighborhood |
Tony Fitzpatrick
Tony Fitzpatrick link |
1985 | Pt |
| 24. |
Blacks |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1987 | FNFMAPt |
| 25. |
Rooftop Piper |
David Hernandez
David Hernandez link |
1991 | Pt |
| 26. |
Wicked City Chicago |
Craig R. Sautter | 1994 | Pt |
| 27. |
Hornman |
Sterling Plumpp
Sterling Plumpp link |
1995 | NFBioPt |
| 28. |
Chicago in Adagio |
Curtiss Mortimer | 1996 | Pt |
| 29. |
Crowdpleaser |
Marc Kelly Smith
Marc Kelly Smith link |
1996 | CSPt |
| 30. |
Very Chicago |
Jose Bono | 1998 | Pt |
| 31. |
Bum Town |
Tony Fitzpatrick
Tony Fitzpatrick link |
2001 | Pt |
| 32. |
Chicago Cantata |
Larry Jankowski | 2002 | Pt |
| 33. |
Lake Michigan Scrolls |
John Dickson
John Dickson link |
2002 | Pt |
| 34. |
Streets in Their Own Ink |
Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek link |
2004 | Pt |
| 35. |
The Urban Poems |
David Hernandez
David Hernandez link |
2004 | Pt |
| 36. |
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 |
Haki R. Madhubuti
Haki Madhubuti link |
2009 | FCSMAPt |
| 37. |
Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories |
Reginald Gibbons
Reginald Gibbons link |
2010 | FSSPt |
| 38. |
City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry |
Ryan G. Van Cleave (Ed.) | 2012 | Pt |
| 39. |
The Truth About Dolls |
Jamila Woods
Jamila Woods link |
2012 | Pt |
| 40. |
Wild Hundreds |
Nate Marshall
Nate Marshall link |
2015 | Pt |
| 41. |
“Narrative: Ali” Published in the collection Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin. |
Elizabeth Alexander | 2016 | Pt |
| 42. |
“Hog Butcher for the World” Published in A People's History of Chicago. |
Kevin Coval | 2017 | Pt |
| 43. |
A People’s History of Chicago |
Kevin Coval
Kevin Coval link |
2017 | Pt |
| 44. |
Electric Arches |
Eve L. Ewing
Eve L. Ewing link |
2017 | Pt |
| 45. |
Hey Black Child |
Useni Eugene Perkins
Useni Eugene Perkins, link |
2017 | SSPt |
| 46. |
“Children Listen” |
Roger Reeves
Roger Reeves link |
2018 | Pt |
| 47. |
Citizen Illegal |
José Olivarez
José Olivarez link |
2018 | FNFSSMAPt |
| 48. |
1919 |
Eve L. Ewing
Eve L. Ewing link |
2019 | Pt |
| 49. |
American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans |
Chris Green (Ed.)
Chris Green link |
2020 | Pt |
| 50. |
Ground Zero: A Collection of Chicago Poems |
Marc Kelly Smith
Marc Kelly Smith link |
2020 | Pt |
| 51. |
Asked What Has Changed |
Ed Roberson
Ed Roberson link |
2021 | Pt |
| 52. |
Doppelgangbanger |
Cortney Lamar Charleston
Cortney Lamar Charleston link |
2021 | Pt |
| 53. |
Wolf Lamb Bomb |
Aviya Kushner
Aviya Kushner link |
2021 | Pt |
| 54. |
More Than Meat and Raiment |
Angela Jackson
Angela Jackson link |
2022 | Pt |
| 55. |
Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry |
Donald G. Evans
Donald G. Evans link |
2022 | Pt |
| 56. |
Pocho Love: Pilsen Heart Beats to Chicago Streets |
Pablo E. Ramirez
Pablo E. Ramirez link |
2023 | Pt |
| 57. |
What It Is: Poems and Opinions of Oscar Brown, Jr. |
Oscar Brown Jr.
Oscar Brown Jr. link |
2025 | SSPt |