A Very Rust Belt Reading 2021
Watch the full video of our December 16 event "A Very Rust Belt Reading" with Ed Simon, Vivian Gibson, and Gretchen Kalwinski.
Protected: “Shifting Sands”: An Interview with Natalie Tomlin
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Protected: “Unintended Consequences”: An Interview with Yanick Rice Lamb
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Jessica Hopper’s Regional Sensibility
The Chicago writer's "no bullshit" approach shines through in the revised edition of "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic."
Centering Community Narratives in the Rust Belt
Watch the full video of our March 31 event "Documenting Home," in partnership with PEN America.
Documenting Home
Meet the panelists for our March 31 event in partnership with PEN America.
“As Though It Is Everywhere”: An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib
"I feel close to my roots in a way that I don't know that I've ever felt."
Remembering the Kent State Shootings, Fifty Years Later
Survivor Chic Canfora reflects on life then and now.
Development in Black and White
An interview with Jason Hackworth, author of "Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt."
Urban Ecology and Animism in the Landscape of the Great Lakes
An interview with Matt Stansberry and Gavin Van Horn.
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: A Conversation
Black families in Chicago are far more likely than their white counterparts to have zero wealth. What are area organizations doing about it?
Tracy K. Smith’s Civic Vision
The U.S. poet laureate on her new edited collection and how literature can mend a fractured civic culture.