Prose and Poetry

Breaking up is hard to do — and that's just the beginning. Jose Nateras confesses about not being able to move on from a relationship.

Some self-aware filler text for your next big project proposal.

An interview with Avant-Garde Japanese Poetry Translator David Michael Ramirez II.

The Everyday World of Robert Walser.

A poem by Katie Wall.

What do we really know about the ground we walk on?

The subtle wisdom of the dreamy jellyfish.

Swiss sound poets Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras to perform at ESS this Saturday.

Chicago's very own Louder Than A Bomb is the country's largest youth poetry slam festival, and was just chronicled in a documentary by filmmakers Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel.

Our educators are, in fact, the gangsters, the “do-gooders” and the artists — and many of our citizens embody aspects of all three.

Chicago has a long history of tension between the broader arts community and city officials — both before and after Mayor Daley’s establishment of The Graffiti Blasters in 1993. Two recent events have highlighted this relationship: the “bombing” of the east wall of the Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing on February 23 and the death of Jason “SOLE” Kitchekeg while being pursued by Chicago police on March 9.

In Tiburon, on a Wednesday, I saw a seabird with my father’s face. “Why don’t you get yourself a decent boyfriend?” it cawed...

At the heart of A Hirsute Affair are the myriad cultural meanings and representations of hair.

I stood with dull scissors The equivalent of a woman’s tweezers But used, I think, to trim a man’s beard.

My father, a pseudo Beach Boy whose mane in every baby photo is the color of a lemon tart, is the true pioneer of all great hairstyles. His junior high class photos prove that he was wearing his hair straight and at shoulder-length long before Hanson was even conceived.