With the inauguration behind us and Amanda Gorman’s words ringing in our ears, Matt decided to call upon two guests to give us a look into poetry, the impact and importance it can have, as well as a live reading of one of their poems
CM Burroughs is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of two poetry collections: The Vital System (Tupelo Press, 2012) and the just-released Master Suffering (Tupelo Press, 2021.) Her books can be found here
https://www.tupelopress.org/?s=cm+burroughs
Kevin Coval is an Emmy-nominated, award-winning poet and author of Everything Must Go: The Life & Death of an American Neighborhood, A People’s History of Chicago. Also founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival. His latest book can be found here
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1352-everything-must-go
Other Chicago poetry resources can be found here
https://www.poetryfoundation.org
https://americanwritersmuseum.org
https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com
