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  2. Chicago (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "Chicago" is a poem by Carl Sandburg about the city of Chicago that became his adopted home. It first appeared in Poetry , March 1914, the first of nine poems collectively titled "Chicago Poems". It was republished in 1916 in Sandburg's first mainstream collection of poems, also titled Chicago Poems .

  3. Chicago (album) - Wikipedia

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    Chicago (retroactively known as Chicago II) is the second studio album by the American rock band Chicago, released on January 26, 1970, by Columbia Records. Like their debut album, Chicago Transit Authority , it is a double album.

  4. Chicago Poems - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Poems established Sandburg as a major figure in contemporary literature. [5] Chicago Poems , and its follow-up volumes of verse, Cornhuskers (1918) and Smoke and Steel (1920) represent Sandburg's attempts to found an American version of social realism, writing expansive verse in praise of American agriculture and industry.

  5. Carl Sandburg - Wikipedia

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    Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

  6. Chicago literature - Wikipedia

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    James Atlas, in his biography of Chicago writer Saul Bellow, suggests that "the city's reputation for nurturing literary and intellectual talent can be traced to the same geographical centrality that made it a great industrial power." [1] When Chicago was incorporated in 1837, it was a frontier outpost with about 4,000 people. The population ...

  7. Margaret Walker - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance.

  8. Young Chicago Authors - Wikipedia

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    Young Chicago Authors is a non-profit organization that promotes young writers and performers in the greater Chicagoland area. They are known for their Rooted & Radical (R&R) youth poetry festival which was previously called Louder Than a Bomb (LTAB).

  9. Patricia Smith (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Smith (born 1955) is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist.She has published poems in literary magazines and journals including TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, and in anthologies including American Voices and The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. [1]