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Tag Archives: Chicago
Reading the Environment: Book Artist Melissa Jay Craig
It’s a digital age, but we’re still mad for paper! Even as readers embrace the connectivity and convenience offered by iPads and Kindles, there are still many good reasons to celebrate a book’s physicality. In Ploughshares’ Book Arts series, we’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Ploughshares Bloggers
Tagged Artist, Artists' Books, Book Arts, Chicago, Deaf, Environment, Handmade paper, Melissa Jay Craig, Nature
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Binding Community: North Branch Projects Turns Pizza Boxes into Books
It’s a digital age, but we’re still mad for paper! Even as readers embrace the connectivity and convenience offered by iPads and Kindles, there are still many good reasons to celebrate a book’s physicality. In Ploughshares’ Book Arts series, we’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Ploughshares Bloggers
Tagged Book Arts, bookbinding, Chicago, Regin Igloria
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A Day in the Life at 826CHI
This post was contributed by Julia Ventola. Tucked away in the heart of Chicago’s Wicker Park, 826CHI is a thriving non-profit writing and tutoring center, dedicated to Chicago’s six- to eighteen-year-old students. It is a member of Dave Eggers’ national … Continue reading
Literary Boroughs #31: Chicago
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Boroughs
Tagged After Hours, Chicago, Chicago Review, Chicago State University, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, Literary Boroughs, Loyola University, Make Magazine, Myopic Books, poetry, RHINO Magazine, Roosevelt University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Armadillo's Pillow, University of Chicago
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Following Tommy
Following Tommy Bob Hartley Cervena Barva Press, July 2012 104 pages $17.00 I was asked to review “Following Tommy” in part because I’m a Chicagoan. Bob Hartley’s first novel is set in the West side of the Windy City, and … Continue reading
Literary Boroughs #29: Evanston, IL
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?
At my job working the early morning Hydration Stations along the lakefront path serving Gatorade to Chicago-area runners, I work with a 19 year old who also works at the duty-free at the airport (she’s the one who looks at … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged Chicago, David Stuart MacLean, fact, Guest Bloggers, nonfiction, personal narrative
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The Ploughshares AWP Book Review Competition
There won’t be any book reviews on the blog this week, mostly because we think you should all be at AWP in Chicago instead, buying—and attending readings of—as many books as you can. More importantly, though, if you happen to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Andrew Ladd, AWP, Blog Book Review Competition, Book Reviews, Chicago, Competition
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A Ploughshares Guide to #AWP12 Chicago
AWP 2012 in Chicago is fast approaching, and boy, are we excited! AWP is an annual conference organized by Associated Writing Programs where writers, small and big presses, literary magazines, and writing programs gather to talk about writing, reading, and … Continue reading
Posted in Events, News, Ploughshares News
Tagged 2012, AWP, Chicago, conference, Events, panel, Ploughshares
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