Iasalle wrote it down wrong --
The father is a black man --
Hog butcher for the world --
Albert Parsons can hang --
Eugene Debs reads Marx in prison --
Reversing the flow of the Chicago river --
The murder of Eugene Williams --
Society for human rights (America's first gay rights organization) --
Thomas Dorsey, gospel's daddy --
Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the mecca --
Muddy waters goes electric --
Nelson Algren meets Simone de Beauvior at the palmer house --
Pickle with a peppermint stick --
Sun Ra becomes a synthesizer --
Hugh Hefner, a play boy --
Mamie Till bears the movement --
King Daley unfurls his burnham plan --
The division street riots --
Martin Luther King prays in marquette park --
Studs Terkel drops a mixtape --
Carl Sandburg village (where my parents met) --
The Assassination of chairman Fred Hampton --
Don L. Lee becomes Haki Madhubuti --
Mayor Byrne moves into & out of cabrini green --
Ron Hardy plays the record backwards --
The assassination of Rudy Lozano --
Marc Smith invents the poetry slam --
Graffiti blasters: an erasure (A buff) --
The violent crime control & law enforcement act --
The etymology of Chicago Joe --
The supreme court makes color illegal --
Ida B. Wells testifies in the ghost town --
How to teach poetry in Chicago public schools --
Lenard Clark pedals for air --
Baby come on: an ode to footwork --
A moratorium on the death penalty --
Praise the house party --
Kanye says what's on everybody's mind --
I wasn't in Grant Park when Obama was elected --
Republic windows workers sit in --
The night the modern wing was bombed --
When King Louie first heard the word chiraq --
An elegy for Dr. Margaret Burroughs --
A dedication to the inaugural poet. --
Chief Keef's epiphany at Lollapalooza --
Teachers' strike in Chicago tradition --
During ramadan the gates of heaven are open --
Ms. Devine explains the meaning of modern art: --
Two cities celebrate Independence Day --
Atoning for the neoliberal in all --
Or Rahm Emanuel as the chicken on kapparot --
The night the Cubs win the world series --