S7 Ep. 10: Chicago in Verse: Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

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Poet Taylor Byas joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss writing about Chicago, which she does in her Maya Angelou Book Award-winning collection of poetry, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times. She talks about growing up in the country’s most segregated city, and considers its long traditions of Black, working-class, and ethnic literature, including writers like Nate Marshall, Lorraine Hansberry, Patricia Smith, and Jose Olivarez. She explains how moving away has given her a new perspective on Chicago’s politics, history, crime, and beauty. She reads a poem (“You from “Chiraq”?”) addressing how outsiders view the city, as well as from a crown of sonnets about the South Side.

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This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Taylor Byas

Others:

Richard Wright
Saul Bellow
Gwendolyn Brooks
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Nelson Algren
Stuart Dybek
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Nate Marshall
1919 — Eve L. Ewing
Patricia Smith
Promises of Gold by Jose Olivarez
Carl Sandburg
Chi-Raq (film, dir. Spike Lee)
Gordon Parks
Brandon Johnson

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