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South Side Community Arts Center
Oct 19, 2010
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Oct 5, 2010
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Sep 21, 2010
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 10/19/10 | South Side Community Arts Center | Established in 1940 by the WPA's Federal Art Project, the South Side Community Art Center has provided a second home for the city's African-American artists. Haki Madhubuti, founding editor of Third World Press, reads. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 10/5/10 | Hall Library | One of the 20th century's most significant poets, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about race in America, often from the perspective of her Bronzeville neighborhood. | — | ||||||
| 9/21/10 | Bronzeville | Margaret Walker's signature poem "For My People" encompasses the strengths and struggles of Blacks not only in Chicago but throughout America. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 9/7/10 | DuSable Museum | The DuSable Museum is one of the nation's premier institutions dedicated to the history, art, and culture of the African diaspora. Quraysh Ali Lansana reads from his collection They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 8/24/10 | Pilsen | Pilsen was a diverse neighborhood in Chicago long before anybody used the word “diversity.” Stuart Dybek and Ana Castillo read poems inspired by their childhoods there. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 8/10/10 | The Green Mill | Marc Smith conceived the worldwide phenomenon of slam poetry at the Green Mill in the 1980s. Audience participation encouraged. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 7/27/10 | Danny's Tavern | The neighborhood of Bucktown is home to Danny's Tavern and Myopic Books, two hot spots in the local poetry scene. Srikanth Reddy and Peter O'Leary read. | — | ||||||
| 7/13/10 | The Newberry Library | The Newberry Library is an independent research library, and has twice served as the home for Poetry magazine during its prestigious and often surprising past. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 6/29/10 | New Chinatown | Li-Young Lee grew up in this immigrant neighborhood, and his poem "The Cleaving" depicts his struggles with identity, violence, and universality. | — | ||||||
| 6/15/10 | Graceland Cemetery | This tour stop includes poetry addressed to graves in Chicago's ritzy Graceland Cemetery. Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, and Harriet Monroe meditate on mortality and what should, or should not, be memorialized. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
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| 6/1/10 | Maxwell Street | Home to street venders and musicians alike, Maxwell Street was one of Chicago's most vibrant gathering places. Michael Anania pays homage with a poem and a touch of the blues. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 5/18/10 | The Velvet Lounge | Sterling Plumpp dubs the Velvet Lounge a "shrine to jazz," and explains how jazz fuels his sense of poetic craft. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 5/4/10 | Chess Records | The Great Migration gave birth to a new brand of blues in Chicago, and Chess Records helped make it famous. Sterling Plumpp and Tyehimba Jess read their bluesy poetry. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 4/20/10 | Stock Yard Gate | Union Stock Yard Gate is all that remains of the mile-wide livestock market that provided Carl Sandburg with his famous epithet for Chicago, “Hog Butcher for the World.” Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 4/6/10 | Haymarket Monument | Featuring Bucky Halker, Wobblies, and Studs Terkel, this segment explores the dynamic poetry and songs reflecting Chicago’s industrial labor movements. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 3/23/10 | The El Train | The El, or the elevated train system, is one of Chicago’s most distinctive features, “the sound of the city.” Reginald Gibbons and members of the Speak Easy Ensemble share their El-inspired poetry. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 3/9/10 | Harold Washington Library | Harold Washington was elected as Chicago’s first African American mayor in 1983. Gwendolyn Brooks, Edward Hirsch, and Albert Goldbarth read an array of poems celebrating progress and the pleasures of reading. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 2/23/10 | Walking to Harold Washington Library | In 1912, Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine as a forum for modernist poetry. Featured are poems by George Dillon and John Frederick Nims, former editors of Poetry. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 2/9/10 | Fine Arts Building | Renovated in 1898 to create studios for musicians, artists, and writers, the Fine Arts Building was a hotbed of artistic activity, home to magazines such as the Dial and the Little Review, and the offices of Frank Lloyd Wright and Edgar Lee Masters. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 1/26/10 | Cliff Dwellers Club | In the early 20th century, the Cliff Dwellers Club hosted poets at all stages of their careers, from the towering figures of Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats to young unknown Carl Sandburg. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 1/12/10 | Art Institute of Chicago | The Art Institute was surrounded by railyards when it was first built, emblematic of Chicago’s roots in industry and the arts. Stuart Dybek, Lisel Mueller, W.S. Di Piero, and others read. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 12/29/09 | Chicago Cultural Center | Originally the Chicago Public Library, the Cultural Center provides an ideal atmosphere for this brief history of Chicago poetry, featuring a variety of the city’s poets. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. | — | ||||||
| 2/22/08 | Confronting the Warpland | Black poets of Chicago: a radio documentary. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.