Chicago Poetry Tour Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis
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Chicago Poetry Tour Podcast
Poetry Foundation
Frequency: 1 episode/44d. Total Eps: 23
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South Side Community Arts Center
Episode 22
mardi 19 octobre 2010 • Duration 09:13
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.
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Hall Library
Episode 21
mardi 5 octobre 2010 • Duration 24:28
One of the 20th century's most significant poets, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about race in America, often from the perspective of her Bronzeville neighborhood.
Maxwell Street
Episode 12
mardi 1 juin 2010 • Duration 07:36
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.
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The Velvet Lounge
Episode 11
mardi 18 mai 2010 • Duration 09:10
Sterling Plumpp dubs the Velvet Lounge a "shrine to jazz," and explains how jazz fuels his sense of poetic craft.
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Chess Records
Episode 10
mardi 4 mai 2010 • Duration 07:16
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.
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Stock Yard Gate
Episode 9
mardi 20 avril 2010 • Duration 06:11
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.”
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Haymarket Monument
Episode 8
mardi 6 avril 2010 • Duration 10:21
Featuring Bucky Halker, Wobblies, and Studs Terkel, this segment explores the dynamic poetry and songs reflecting Chicago’s industrial labor movements.
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The El Train
Episode 7
mardi 23 mars 2010 • Duration 07:17
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.
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Harold Washington Library
Episode 6
mardi 9 mars 2010 • Duration 09:14
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.
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Walking to Harold Washington Library
Episode 5
mardi 23 février 2010 • Duration 06:02
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.
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