The end of Chiraq
Subtitle: a literary mixtape
By: edited by Javon Johnson and Kevin Coval ; with writers from Young Chicago Authors & Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival
Contributors: Young Chicago Authors (Organization); Louder Than a Bomb (Poetry slam)
Series: Second to none: Chicago stories; Second to none: Chicago stories
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780810137189
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Social conditions; High school students' writings, American; Literary collections; African American youth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Javon Johnson and Kevin Coval; title: Intro  -- Javon Johnson; title: Welcome to Chiraq --; title: On hearing King Louie  -- Andrew Barber; title: When King Louie first heard the word Chiraq  -- Kevin Coval; title: To live and die in "Chiraq"  -- Mariame Kaba; title: Rome wasn't built in a day  -- Malcolm London; title: Memories  -- Aneko Jackson; title: Windowpain : Bryce Thomas  -- Nile Lansa; title: My grandmother tells me and my cousins why she hates the word Chiraq ...  -- Demetrius Amparan; title: Do we even need to be understood to get free?  -- Page May; title: 9 of disks  -- Fatimah Ashgar; title: Frank Bradely : interview  -- by Aneko Jackson; title: How America loves Chicago's ghosts more than the people still living in the city : an erasure poem  -- Jacqui Germain; title: A tale of two & many cities --; title: I am Windy City  -- Patricia Frazier; title: If you aren't from Chicago  -- Tim "Toaster" Henderson; title: Concrete flowers  -- Aneko Jackson; title: Chicago is the world's Harold's Chicken box  -- Kara Jackson; title: When asked about Chicago : a confession  -- Alfonzo Kahlil; title: History, as written by the victors  -- Krista Franklin; title: Ye though I walk through Chi  -- Naudia j. Williams; title: Ghazal for White Hen Pantry  -- Jamila Woods; title: Holy hermosa  -- Sara Geiger; title: Corn man on every corner  -- Sammy Ortega; title: Into a white neighborhood  -- Melinda Hernandez; title: Poem for Cal City : confession  -- Jose Olivarez; title: In the Bridgeport row house  -- Natalie Richardson; title: I'm from Chicago, but not really  -- Michael Cuaresma; title: Daughter  -- Claire DeRosa; title: Damon -- Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep Louder Than a Bomb Team.; title: Flatline  -- Raymesha Henry; title: Dboy black : a poem for Briyae  -- Brittney Kapri; title: Black boy dreams  -- Aneko Jackson; title: Ode to North Lawndale  -- Anton Charles Sanders; title: Contesting the narrative --; title: Drill  -- Breanna Bonslater; title: Why is the Chicago Police Department targeting Chief Keef?  -- Jake Krez; title: We real  -- Kevin Coval; title: Why do black boys smoke so much weed?  -- Demetrius Amparan; title: Kill the noise(y)  -- Tara C. Mahadevan; title: Windowpain : Raymond a.k.a. Lil' Ray  -- Nile Lansa; title: The go  -- Marwin "Stark of HUEY" Williams; title: Notes for Mars Blackmon on the making of Spike Lee's film Chi-raq  -- Kevin Coval; title: Spike Lee's Chi-raq isn't strong enough to hold the city it exploits  -- Brittney Kapri; title: Why I'm bootlegging Chi-raq  -- A Nate Marshall Joint; title: The culture is the art --; title: Rethinking revolution : creating space for the black body through the spoken word  -- Alfonzo Kahlil; title: Hip hop poet  -- Marvin Tate; title: Woop wop de bam  -- Nate Marshall; title: Search  -- KZ; title: The stoop  -- Jalen Kobayashi; title: Slay  -- KZ; title: Speak  -- E'mon Lauren; title: I tag CTA  -- Sammy Ortega; title: Flower breaking through the concrete : an interview with Liz Lazdins  -- Leah Love; title: In the business : a manifesto  -- Miguel Aguilar; title: On afro-futurism : a roundtable with D. Denenge Akpem, Damon Locks, and Ytasha L. Womack  -- Leah Love; title: Captives public showing  -- Matthew Wilbourn; title: The future of Chicago --; title: Ghost town  -- Idris Goodwin; title: Mama Emily tells the story  -- Sarah McKee; title: Out the trap : building with the elephant rebellion  -- Grace Jones; title: Paradise on fire  -- Jahnari Pruitt; title: How to win reparations  -- Sarah Macaraeg and Yana Kunichoff; title: By & by  -- Jamila Woods; title: Somewhere, upcoming  -- Kara Jackson; title: Toward the unreasonable  -- Page May and Nate Marshall; title: Water pressure  -- Sammy Ortega; title: #blacklivesmatter and ... the six unconditionals  -- Dr. Haki Madhubuti; title: Ode to dawn  -- Gellila Asmanmaw; title: Outro -- Kevin Coval.