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Race, Class, Gender, and the Imperial Body

As a visiting teaching artist for the Poetry Foundation, I facilitated a workshop titled “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry.” We created graphic poems and also explored how visual elements...

Reading the visual in the Chicago Daily Tribune

Architecture and Planning in Chicago

Modernism at the 1913 Armory Show

Harriet Monroe on the Artist’s Audience

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” —James BaldwinWriting poems can be the articulation of a kind of listening. We listen to the poems we’ve dog-eared in...

Read or listen to Kimiko Hahn’s poem, “Likeness: A Self-Portrait,” several times. A few questions you might consider, either in writing or in conversation with others: The title instructs us to...