Notable Chicago: 9/21–9/27
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Posts Tagged: Amy Strauss Friedman
All of the Facts and None of the Truth: Fox Frazier-Foley’s Like Ash in the Air after Something Has Burned
While these women are physically gone, they gain agency after their deaths through Frazier-Foley’s poems.
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Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Three Poems by Amy Strauss Friedman
I thought that hearts were meant to function as uteri, / to grow linings that bleed clotty when life won’t adhere, / to stall like rusty engines in barren winters, / unprepared for the seasonal shift.
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First, in the Saturday Essay, Terese Marie Mailhot considers the strange and tragic ways life wounds Native American women. She remembers running away from her home, the reservation. “Native women walk alone from the dances of their youth into homes they don’t know for the chance to be away,” she writes. Meanwhile, Brandon Hicks considers alternative […]
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The History of Great Things by Elizabeth Crane
Amy Strauss Friedman reviews Elizabeth Crane’s The History of Great Things today in Rumpus Books.
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