Chicago Poetry Books
There have been many poetry books big and small, successful and unsuccessful published in the Chicago area over the years. Some of these have been self published, some have been published by well-known publishers. We are trying to make a simple list of poetry books by Chicago area poets, or other non-poetry books written by Chicago area poets.
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Books are listed alphabetically by authors last name.
List of Chicago Poetry Books
Adams, Lance, Forgotten Screams, (World Eye Press), 1997
Adams, Lance, Through The Clouded Mirror, (Lance Adams), 1999
Allegrezza, William and Bianchi, editors, The City Visible, (Cracked Slab Books), 2007
Allen, Jeffery Renard, Harbors and Spirits, (Moyer Bell), 1999
Allen, Jeffery Renard, Stellar Places, (Moyer Bell), 2007
Amberg, Jay, 52 Poems For Men,(Amika Press), 2001
Anania, Michael, Riversongs, (University of Illinois Press), 1978
Anania, Michael, The Color of Dust, (Swallow Press), 1970
Anderson, Carol, Ordinary, (The Puddin’head Press), 2005
Anderson, Tim, Jet Plane, (A & B Press), 1987
Anderson, Victoria, This Country or That, (Mid-American Press), 2001
Alvarado, Margaret, Getting Down
Badikian, Beatriz, Akewa is a Woman, (MARCH/Abrazo Press), 1982
Badikian, Beatriz, Mapmaker Revisited, (Gladsome Books), 1999
Baumgaertner, Jill Pelaez, Leaving Eden, (White Eagle Coffee Store Press), 1987
Barr, David, Woman of My Dreams, (Weinberg Press), 2006
Barnidge, Mary Shen, Parties And Poets In Whitewater, Milwaukee, DeKalb, Philadelphia, Okinawa And Chicago, 1977
Barnidge, Mary Shen, Piano Player At The Dionysia, 1984
Amberg, Jay, 52 Poems For Men,(Amika Press), 2001
Bell, Marvin, A Probable Volume of Dreams, (Atheneum), 1969
Bell, Marvin, Poems for Nathan and Saul, (Hillside Press), 1966
Bell, Marvin, Residue of Song, (Antheneum), 1974
Bell, Marvin, Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See, (Antheneum), 1977
Bell, Marvin, The Escape Into You, (Atheneum), 1971
Bell, Marvin, These Green-Going-to-Yellow, (Antheneum), 1981
Bell, Marvin, Things We Dreamt We Died For, (Stonewall Press), 1966
Bell, Marvin, Two Poems, (Hundred Pound Press), 1965
Bell, Marvin, Woo Havoc, (Barn Dream Press), 1071
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #01, (Neutral Turf), 1992
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #02, (Neutral Turf), 1993
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #03, (Neutral Turf), 1994
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #04, (Neutral Turf), 1995
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #05, (Neutral Turf), 1996
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #06, (Neutral Turf), 1997
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #07, (Neutral Turf), 1998
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #08, (Neutral Turf), 1999
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #09, (Neutral Turf), 2000
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #10, (Neutral Turf), 2001
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #11, (Neutral Turf), 2002
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #12, (Neutral Turf), 2003
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #13, (Neutral Turf), 2004
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #14, (Neutral Turf), 2005
Berez, Kim, editor, StarWallpaper #15, (Neutral Turf), 2006
Berrigan, Ted, A Lily for My Love
Berrigan, Ted, Bean Spasms
Berrigan, Ted, Doubletalk
Berrigan, Ted, In the Early Morning Rain
Berrigan, Ted, Living With Chris
Berrigan, Ted, Red Wagon, (Yellow Press)
Berrigan, Ted, Selected Poems, (Penguin Poets), 1994
Berrigan, Ted, Seventeen
Berrigan, Ted, The Sonnets
Berrigan, Ted, Yo-Yo’s With Money
Betts, Tara, 7×7: Kwansabas, (Backbone Press), 2017
Betts, Tara, Arc and Hue, (Aquarius Books), 2009
Betts, Tara, Break the Habit, (Trio House Press), 2016
Betts, Tara, Can I Hang,(Tara Betts), 1999
Betts, Tara, Switch, 2003
Betts, Tara, The Greatest: An Homage to Muhommad Ali, (Winged City Chapbook Press), 2013
Beyond The MC, Black On White, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Bianchi, Raymond, The American Master, (Moria Books), 2006
Bianchi, Raymond and Allegrezza, editors, The City Visible, (Cracked Slab Books), 2007
Bitts, Shelia, Colected Poems (1988-2008), (Trafford Publishing), 2008
Blechman, Sam, Through My Eyes, (The Puddin’head Press),
Blinn, Lucia, Navigating The Night, ( ),
Blinn, Lucia, Passing For Normal, ( ),
Blinn, Lucia, Sounds Like Lucia CD, ( ),
Bono, Jose, Very Chicago, (Jose Bono), 1998
Bottiglieri, Jan, A Place Beyond Luck, (Moon Journal Press), 2004
Bottiglieri, Jan, Eeverything Seems Significant, (BlazeVox), 2019
Bowen, Kristy, belladonna, (Wicked Pen Publications), 2004
Bowen, Kristy, Bloody Mary, (Dancing Girl Press), 2004
Bowen, Kristy, Girl Show, (Ghost Road Press), 2009
Bowen, Kristy, In The Bird Museum, (Dusie Press Books), 2008
Bowen, Kristy, The Fever Almanac, (Ghost Road Press), 2006
Brashler, Anne, The Talking Poems: A Family Legend, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Brooks, Gwendolyn, Blacks, (Third World Press), 1994
Brooks, Gwendolyn, Primer For Blacks, (Third World Press), 1991
Brooks, Gwendolyn, The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems,(Third World Press), 1986
Brown, Anna F., All of It and Everywhere, 2021
Brown, Glen, Yes, No, Maybe, (Lake Shore Pubishing),
Brown, Michael R., Falling Wallendas, (Tia Chucha Press), 1994
Brownstein, Michael, Drum Poems, ( ),
Brownstein, Michael, Drum Stories, ( ),
Brownstein, Michael, Period of Trees, (Snark Publishing), 2004
Brownstein, Michael, Poems From The Body Bag, (Ommation Press), 1989
Brownstein, Michael, The Shooting Gallery, (Samisdat Press), 1987
Brownstein, Michael, What Stone Is, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
Buddha 309 AKA David Hargarten, …Among These Weeds, (Exact Change Press), 2009
Burckhardt & Katz, New York Hello, (Ommation Press),
Burleigh, Robert, The Triumph of Mittens, (Boardwell-Kloner Press), 1979
Burroughs, C.M., Master Suffering
Burroughs, C.M., The Vital System
Buscani, Lisa, Jangle, (Tia Chucha Press), 1990
Calhoun, Andrew, Hay, (The Paper Airplane Press), 2005
Calish, Richard, I’ve Been Away So Many Lives, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Calish, Richard, Somehow These Things Are All Connected, (Lake Shore Publishing), 1988
Carbo, Nick, El Grupo McDonald’s, (Tia Chucha Press), 1998
Carli, Vittorio, A Passion for Apathy, (Press of the Third Mind), 2012
Carli, Vittorio, Tape Worn Salad with Olive Oil For Extra Flavor, (Press of the Third Mind), 2018
Carroll, Jim, Living At The Movies, (Grossman Pub.), 1971
Carroll, Jim, Living At The Movies, (Penguin Books), 1981
Chamberlin, Gay Guard, Red Thread Through A Rusty Needle, (New World Publishing), 2019
Chapman, Harley Anastasia, Smiling with Teeth (Finishing Line Press), 2020
Cherry, Susan, Breaking Into The Safe Of Life, (Chicago Spectrum Press), 2003
Cherry, Susan, Hole to Whole, ,
Cherry, Susan, I Am The Pools’s Parameter, (Chicago Spectrum Press), 2008
Cherry, Susan, Reflecting Pool, (Chicago Spectrum Press), 2006
Cintron, Ralph, Maria, Maria Look!, (Erie Street Press), 1982
Cherry, Susan, Sonata in the Key of Being,
Cisneros, Sandra, Bad Boys, (Mango Press), 1980
Cisneros, Sandra, Loose Woman, (Knopf), 1995
Cisneros, Sandra, My Wicked Wicked Ways, (Third Woman Press), 1987
Cleary, Daniel, Elegy For James Gerard And Other Poems For The Larger Voice, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
Cleary, Daniel, Root River Trail, (Daniel Cleary), 2004
Cleary, Daniel, The Green Ribbon, (Enright House),
Cohen, Helen Degen, Habry, (The Puddin’head Press), 2009
Cohen, Helen Degen, On A Good Day One Discovers Another Poet, (Finishing Line Press), 2009
Cohen, Mark, Moving with Them, (A Fool and His Folly Press), 1998
Colon, Esteban, Between Blue Lines, (Exact Change Press), 2010
Colon, Esteban, Things I Learned the Hard Way, (Plain View Press), 2013
Colon, Esteban, This Frankenstein Union, (Chrisis Chronicles Press), 2015
Colon, Kristiana, Pieces of Shedu, (Ice Box Press), 2008
Cookie Supehstah, Hymns From Suburban America, (Josh Colky), 2002
Coppoc, Jim, Blood, Sex and Prayer, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
Cortez, Carlos, Crystal Gazing the Amber Fluid: & Other Wobbly Poems
Cortez, Carlos, de KANSAS a CALIFAS & back to CHICAGO, (MARCH/Abrazo), 1992
Corwin, Nina, Conversations With Friendly Demons And Tainted Saints, (The Puddin’head Press), 1999
Corwin, Nina, Dear Future, (Glass Lyre Press), 2017
Corwin, Nina, editor, Inhabiting The Body, (Moon Journal Press),
Cumpian, Carlos, Armadillo Charm, (Tia Chucha Press), 1996
Cumpian, Carlos, Coyote Sun, (MARCH/Abrazo Press),
Curry, Gregory, Artificial Horizon, (Generationless Pubications),
Curry, Gregory, Gently Broken, (The Puddin’head Press), 2014
Danner, Margaret, African Art Forms in Poetry, 1962
Danner, Margaret, Iron Lace, 1968
Danner, Margaret, and Randall, Poem, Counterpoem, 1966
Danner, Margaret, To Flower, 1962
Darlington, Kris, I’m Not Tonight, (The Puddin’head Press),
Dean, Larry O., I Am Spam, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Dean, Larry O., Identity Theft For Dummies, (Zenith Beast Books), 2004
DeGenova, Al, Black Perl, (Purple Flag), 2016
DeGenova, Al, The Blueing Hours, (Virtual Artists Collective), 2008
DeGenova, Al, Postcards To Jack, (Naked Mannekin), 2010
DeGenova, Al and Rossiter, Back Beat, (Crossroads Press), 2001
DeGenova, Al and Rossitor, Back Beat, Second Edition, (Fractal Edge Press),
DeKatch, Scott, Oceans And Landmass, (Scott Dekatch), 2004
DeKatch, Scott, Talking Around Reason, (Scott DeKatch), 2004
Deubel, Jeannine, M & M’s and Other Obsessions, (Jeannine Deubel), 1994
DeWoskin, Rachel, Two Menus, (University of Chicago Press), 2020
Diamond, Olivia, Women at the Well, (American Studies Press), 1991
Di Prima, Diane, The Poetry Deal, (City Lights)
Di Prima, Diane, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward
Dickson, John, Lake Michigan Scrolls, (The Puddin’head Press), 2002
Dickson, John, The Music of Solid Objects, (Thorntree Press), 1997
Dickson, John, Victoria Hotel, ( ), 1980
Dickson, John, Waving At Trains, (Thorntree Press), 1986
Diggs, Alfred, Naturally Black
Donahue, Shelia, Avalanche Expert, ( ),
Donovan, Shelia, A Suitcase Packed With Poems, (Shelia Donovan)
Dotson, Jennifer, Late Night Talk Show Fantasy & Other Poems (Kelsay Books), 2020
Duffey, Richard, Brother Earth Sister Sky, (Erie Street Press), 1981
Dybek, Stuart, Brass Knuckles, (Carnegie Mellon Press),
Dybek, Stuart, Streets in Their Own Ink, (FSG),
Eady, Cornelius, Victims Of The Latest Dance Craze, (Ommation Press), 1986
Eiden, William, Cook County Forest Preserves, (William Eiden),
Eleveld, Mark, The Spoken Word Revolution with Audio CD, (Sourcebooks Media Fusion), 2005
Eleveld, Mark, The Spoken Word Revolution Redux, (Sourcebooks Media Fusion), 2007
Engler, Robert Klein, Departures, (Alphbeta Press),
Engler, Robert Klein, Empty Chair By Moonlight, (Alphabeta Press),
Engler, Robert Klein, One Hundred Poems, (Alphabeta Press),
Engler, Robert Klein, Shoreline, (Alphbeta Press),
Engler, Robert Klein, Stations of the Heart: A Book of Sonnets
Engler, Robert Klein, The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering, (Headwaters Press), 2004
Equi, Elaine, The Cloud of Knowable Things
Fammaree, Richard, Lessons of Water and Thirst, (Puddin’head Press & Collage Press),
Field, Eugene, A Little Book of Western Verse, 1889
Field, Eugene, Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse, (Charles Scribner’s), 1912
Field, Eugene, Hoosier Lyrics, (MA Donohue & Co.), 1905
Field, Eugene, Love-Songs of Childhood, 1894
Field, Eugene, Lullaby-Land, (Charles Scribner’s), 1897
Field, Eugene, Songs and Other Verse, (Charles Scribner’s), 1911
Field, Eugene, The Muse and the Moonbeam, (Charles Scribner’s), 1912
Field, Eugene, Three Poems
Field, Eugene, With Trumpet and Drum, (Charles Scribner’s), 1897
Fink, Eloise Bradley, Girl In The Empty Nightgown, (Thorntree Press),
Fink, Eloise Bradley, editor, Going 60 In Chicago, (Poets Club Of Chicago), 1998
Fishman, Lisa, Dear Read, (Ahsahta), 2002
Fishman, Lisa, Kabba Loom, (Wyrd Press)
Fishman, Lisa, The Deep Heart’s Core is a Suitcase, (New Issues Press), 1998
Fishman, Lisa, The Happiness Experiment, (Ahsahta Press), 2007
Fitzpatrick, Tony, Bum Town, (Tia Chucha Press), 2001
Fitzpatrick, Tony, The Neighborhood, (Society for Mad Poets Press), 1985
Flannery, Maureen Tolman, A Fine Line, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Flannery, Maureen Tolman, Ancestors In The Landscape, (John Gordan Burke Publisher, Inc.), 2004
Flannery, Maureen Tolman, Conversations for the Road, (tmpoetry.com)
Flannery, Maureen Tolman, Destiny Whispers to the Beloved, (John Gordon Burke Publisher),
Flannery, Maureen Tolman, Remembered into Life, (New Song Press), 2001
Flannery, Maureen Tolman, Secret Of The Rising Up, (John Gordon Burke Publisher),
Flannery, Maureen Tolman, Snow and Roses: Traute Lafrenz among the White Rose Resistance, (Fine Line Press),
Flannery, Maureen Tolman, Tunnel Into Morning, (The Puddin’head Press), 2011
Flaxman, Eileen, What’s Been on My Mind
Forbes, Calvin, Blue Monday, (Wesleyan University Press), 1974
Forbes, Calvin, From The Book Of Shine, (Burning Deck Press), 1979
Foreman, Aricka, Salt Body Shimmer
Freund, Edith, Sit By Me, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Fuller, William, Aether, (Gaz), 1998
Fuller, William, Avoiding Activity, 2003
Fuller, William, byt, (O Books), 1989
Fuller, William, Coal Jealosies, 1987
Fuller, William, Daybreak, (Flood Editions), 2020
Fuller, William, Dry Land, (Equipage), 2007
Fuller, William, Hallucination, (Flood Editions), 2011
Fuller, William, Playtime, (Flood Editions) 2015
Fuller, William, Roll, 2000
Fuller, William, Quorum, (Seagull Books), 2012
Fuller, William, Sadly, (Flood Editions), 2003
Fuller, William, The Central Reader, 1998
Fuller, William, The Sugar Borders, (O Books), 1993
Fuller, William, Three Poems, 2000
Fuller, William, Three Replies, (Barque), 2009
Fuller, William, Watchword, (Flood Editions), 2006
Gabbert, Elisa, & Rooney, Kathleen, Don’t ever stay the same, keep changing, (Spooky Girlfrind Press), 2009
Gabbert, Elisa, & Rooney, Kathleen, The Kind of Beauty that Has Nowhere to Go, (Hyacinth Girl Press), 2013
Gallaher, Cynthia, Earth Elegance, (MARCH/Abrazo Press), 2000
Gallaher, Cynthia, Night Ribbons, (Polar Bear Press), 1989
Gallaher, Cynthia, Private On Purpose, (Mulberry Press), 1993
Gallaher, Cynthia, Swimmer’s Prayer, (Missing Spoke Press), 1999
Gamble, Hannah Rebecca, Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, 2012
Gangas, Patricia, editor, A Taste Of Poetry… Chicago Style, (Poets & Patrons), 1996
Gautier, James, Standing Up Straight, (Saltines Press), 1992
Gautier, James, The Money Speaks, (Saltines Press), 1992
Gecic, David, w. Gecic, Gorecki, & Pinkowski, Four Star Daydream, (The Puddin’head Press), 1985
Gecic, Karen, w. Gecic, Gorecki, & Pinkowski, Four Star Daydream, (The Puddin’head Press), 1985
Gibbons, Reginald, Five Pears or Peaches
Gibbons, Reginold, In The Warhouse, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Gibbons, Reginald, Maybe It Was So, (University of Chicago Press), 1991
Gibbons, Reginold, Roofs Voices Roads
Gibbons, Reginold, Saints
Gibbins, Reginold, The Ruined Motel
Gibson, Regie, Storms Beneath The Skin, (EM Press),
Giese, Marilyn Huntman, Nursey Rhymes Your Mother Never Taught You, Xlibris
Gillette, Ron, Hardware and Variety, (Erie Street Press), 1984
Glabman, Steven, Mindclock Lubricant, (One Day Productions), 1998
Glynn, Pam & Tapley, editors, Silent Holler, (Chicago BOE), 2006
Goepfert, Gail, A Mind on Pain, 2015
Goepfert, Gail, Get Up Said The World, (Cervena Barva Press), 2020
Goepfert, Gail, Tapping Roots, (Aldrich Press), 2018
Goldman, Batya, and Weinman, I Grabbed Her Tits, (Then, Press), 1993
Goldsmith, Sandy, Imaging Center, (The Puddin’head Press), 2007
Gordon, C. (Rogue), Rogue Logic, (Reptile House Press), 1995
Gordon, C. (Rogue), Rodue Poetry #4, (Reptile House Press), 1995
Gorecki, George, w. Gecic, Gecic, & Pinkowski, Four Star Daydream, (The Puddin’head Press), 1985
Goring, Ruth, Soap Is Political, (Glass Lyre Press), 2015
Goring, Ruth, Yellow Doors, (WordFarm), 2003
Goode, John, Graduating from Eternity, (Rain Mountain Press), 2013
Goode, John, Beauty and the Unrequited Landscape, (Rain Mountain Press), 2018
Graham, William, Interlude: Poetical Works
Green, Chris, Conceptual Animals, (Sheltering Poems Press), 2006
Green, Chris, Epiphany School
Green, Chris, Everywhere West
Green, Chris, The Sky Over Walgreens, (Mayapple Press), 2007
Greenberg-Bywater, Arielle, Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials, (New Michigan), 2003
Greenberg-Bywater, Arielle, Given, (Verse), 2002
Greenberg-Bywater, Arielle, My Kafka Century, (Action Books), 2003
Hahn, Susan, Harriet Rubin’s Mother’s Wooden Head, 1991
Hahn, Susan, Holiday, 2001
Hahn, Susan, Incontinence, 1993
Hahn, Susan, Mother In Summer, 2002
Hahn, Susan, The Scarlet Ibis, 2007
Hammond, Steven, P, Anyone, (BookSurge, LLC), 2005
Hanrahan, Dan, Building 17, ( ),
Hanrahan, Dan, Sermon of the Mouth – Tape, ( ),
Hargarten, David AKA Buddha 309, …Among These Weeds, (Exact Change Press), 2009
Hargraves, Don, How The Bee Gees Destroyed Communism, (Don Hargraves)
Harper, Elizabeth, A Mercinary Girdler, (Chicago), 2016
Harper, Elizabeth, Fairy Tales Gone Awry, (Elizabeth Harper), 2006
Harper, Elizabeth, Know Your Rights, (chapbook), 2016
Harper, Elizabeth, Love Songs from Psychopaths, (Elizabeth Harper), 2006
Harper, Elizabeth, No Solace in Memory, (chapbook)
Harper, Elizabeth, Tender Bonbons, (chapbook), 2014
Harper, Elizabeth, Why I (Do Not) Write Poetry, (chapbook), 2017
Harr, Barbara, The Mortgaged Wife, (Swallow Press), 1970
Hawley, Mary Kathleen, Double Tongues, (Tia Chucha Press), 1993
Heldt, Todd, Card Tricks for the Starving, (Ghost Road Press), 2009
Heldt, Todd, The Science Of Broken People, (Little Poem Press), 2004
Helgeson, Jeff, Fall From Grace, (The Puddin’head Press), 2010
Helgeson, Jeff, Sign of the Times, (The Puddin’head Press), 2010
Herbst, Bill, Still Breathing
Heringer, LeeAnn, Picture Postcards, (A Small Garlic Press), 1995
Hernandez, David, Despertando (Waking Up), 1971
Hernandez, David, The Urban Poems, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Hernandez, David, Rooftop Piper, (Tia Chucha Press), 1991
Hernandez, David, Satin-City Lullaby, (David Hernandez), 1985
Hernandez, David & Streetsounds, Satin City Serenade – CD,
Hillila, Bernhard, a fly on the swatter
Hillila, Bernhard, Cutting Edge, (Chimney Hill Press), 1996
Hillila, Bernhard, The Haven: New Poetry, (The Haven Vol 4 #2), 1988
Hirsch, Edward, Earthly Measures, (Alfred A. Knopf), 1994
Hirsch, Edward, For the Sleepwalkers, (Alfred A. Knopf), 1981
Hirsch, Edward, Gabriel: A Poem, (Alfred A. Knopf), 2014
Hirsch, Edward, Lay Back the Darkness, (Alfred A. Knopf), 2003
Hirsch, Edward, On Love, (Alfred A. Knopf), 1998
Hirsch, Edward, Special Orders, (Alfred A. Knopf), 2008
Hirsch, Edward, The Living Fire, (Alfred A. Knopf), 2010
Hirsch, Edward, The Night Parade, (Alfred A. Knopf), 1989
Hirsch, Edward, Wild Gratitude, (Alfred A. Knopf), 1986
Hogan, Louise Mae, So I Wrote It Down, (Louise Mae Hogan), 1951
Holinger, Richard, North of Crivitz, 2020
Holtkanp, Nissa, Tinterchange, ( ), 2006
Hoover, Paul, Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert
Hoover, Paul, Somebody Talks A Lot, (Yellow Press), 1982
Howard, Jean, Dancing in Your Mother’s Skin, (Tia Chucha Press), 1991
Hunt, William, Oceans and Corridors of Orpheus, (Elpnor Press), 1979
Hunt, William, Of the Map that Changes, (Swallow Press), 1973
Jameson, JJ AKA Norman Porter, Lady Rutherfurd’s Cauliflower, (The Puddin’head Press), 1999
Jablonovec, Ida Therese, editor, Stray Bullets, (Tia Chucha Press), 1990
Jackson, Angela, And All These Roads By Luminous, 1998
Jackson, Angela, Dark Legs and Silk Kisses, (Northwestern University Press), 1994
Jackson, Angela, Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E, 1985
Jackson, Angela, The Man With The White Liver, 1987
Jackson, Angela, Voodoo/Love Magic, 1974
Jackson, Angela, Where I Must Go, 2009
Jackson, Rachel, Even the Saints Audition, (Button Poetry), 2019
Jackson, Lorri, My Mouth Is A Hole In My Face, (Oyster Publications)
Jacobus, Terry, The Poet Never Loses His Girl
Janik, Phyllis, An Advent Calendar, (Grassfield Writers Collective), 1976
Janik, Phyllis, Fuse, (Another Chicago Press), 1989
Janik, Phyllis, No Dancing/No Acts of Dancing, (University of Missouri Press), 1982
Janik, Phyllis, Red Shoes, (Morgan Press), 1974
Janik, Phyllis, The Disaster Expert, (Basilisk Press), 1971
Janowski, Larry, BrotherKeeper, (The Puddin’head Press), 2007
Janowski, Larry, Chicago Cantata, (Namiste Press), 2002
Johnson, Caroline, My Mother’s Artwork, 2011 (Art by Gladys Muller)
Johnson, Caroline, The Caregiver, (Holy Cow! Press), 2018
Johnson, Caroline, Where the Street Ends, 2010 (Art by Darleen Norton)
Johnson, Priscilla A., From The Foxes Den, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Jones, Richard, Apropos of Nothing, (Copper Canyon Press), 2006
Jones, Richard, Correct Spelling, (Copper Canyon Press), 2009
Jones, Wayne Allen, Decades of Rehersal, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Jones, Wayne Allen, Stone Works, (Fractal Edge Press), 2002
Jones, Wayne Allen & McCabe, The A Poems, (Fractal Edge Press), 2003
Kanter, Carol N., Out of Southern Africa, (Finishing Line Press), 2005
Kaplan, Felicia, and Miripol, and Mark, editorsSeparate Pleasures Anthology, (Omega Press), 1982
Katz & Burckhardt, New York Hello, (Ommation Press),
Karchmar, Irving, It Was Mostly You, (Irving Karchmar), 1986
Kendrick, Monica, Chicago Cherry: Wicker Park Erotica, (Mary Kuntz Press)
Kimmet, Gene, In Fee Simple, (Stormline Press), 1986
Kingsbury, Lonna, Her Mountain Bears Fruit, ( ),
Kingsbury, Lonna, In Varient Motif, ( ),
Kitzis, Lee, editor, Big Pen, ( ),
Kitzis, Lee, editor, Big Pen 2, ( ),
Kitzis, Lee, & Sznajder, editorsBig Pen 3, ( ), 2004
Kitzis, Lee, Eight Dollars An Hour, (The Puddin’head Press), 2008
Kitzis, Lee, Jazzman, (Big Pen Press), 2002
Kitzis, Lee, Poems From Prauge and Follies, (Writer’s Club Press), 2000
Kitzis, Lee, The Laudromat Girl, (The Puddin’head Press),
Kitzis, Lee, editor, The Anti-Mensch, (The Puddin’head Press), 1996
Kitzis, Lee, editor, The Anti-Mensch II, (The Puddin’head Press), 1997
Kloman, Blanche Whitney, Why Horses, Mrs. K., (Lake Shore Publishing),
Knott, Bill, Selected Poems Volume One: 1968-1988, (Bill Knott), 2001
Knott, Bill, Aurealism: A Study, (Salt Mound), 1970
Knott, Bill, Auto-Necrophilia, (Big Table), 1971
Knott, Bill, For Anne and Other Poems, (Munich Editions), 1977
Knott, Bill, Homages, (Bill Knott), 2001
Knott, Bill, Love Poems to Myself, (Barn Dream Press), 1974
Knott, Bill, Rome in Rome, (Release Press), 1976
Knott, Bill, Nights of Naomi (Plus 2 Songs), (Barn Dream Press), 1971
Knott, Bill, Plaza De Loco New Poems 1995-1999, (Bill Knott), 2001
Knott, Bill, Selected and Collected Poems, (Sun Books), 1977
Knott, Bill, Selected Poems Volume Two 1989-1999, (Bill Knot), 2001
Knott, Bill, The Naomi Poems: Book One, (Big Table), 1968
Knott, Bill, The Season On Our Sleeve Short Poems 1960-2000, (Bill Knott), 2001
Koester, Anita Olivia, Apples and Pomegranates
Kramer, Chuck, ed., Step Into The Light, (Great Lakes Poetry Press), 1992
Kubik, Kathy, Songs In Red, (Lulu Press),
Kubik, Kathy, The Pilgrim Soul, (Lulu Press),
Kubik, Kathy, The Secret of Ivory Vows, (Lulu Press),
Kubik, Kathy, Universal, (Moon Journal Press), 2006
Kuypers, Janet, Autumn Reason, (Scars Publications), 1997
Kuypers, Janet, Change/Rearrange, (Scars Publications), 2005
Kuypers, Janet, Death Comes in Threes, (Scars Publications), 2003
Kuypers, Janet, Layers of Creation, (Scars Publications), 2008
Kuypers, Janet, Rising to the Surface, (Scars Publications), 2008
Kuypers, Janet, Seeing Things Differently, (Scars Publications), 2005
Kuypers, Janet, The Messenger, (Scars Publications), 2007
Kuypers, Janet, Tick Tock, (Scars Publications), 2007
Kuypers, Janet, (woman), (Scars Publications), 1997
Laity, C. J., editor, Chicago Poetry Fest 2004 Anthology, (Chicagopoetry.com Press), 2004
Laity, C. J., editor, Chicago Poetry Fest 2005 Anthology, (Chicagopoetry.com Press), 2005
Laity, C. J., editor, Cram 1, (ChicagoPoetry.com Press)
Laity, C. J., editor, Cram 2, (ChicagoPoetry.com Press)
Laity, C. J., editor, Cram 3, (ChicagoPoetry.com Press)
Laity, C. J., editor, Cram 4, (ChicagoPoetry.com Press)
Laity, C. J., editor, Cram 5, (ChicagoPoetry.com Press), 2009
Laity, C. J., License To Quill, (Chicagopoetry.com Press), 2004
Laity, C. J., editor, Best Of Chicago Poetry, (ChicagoPoetry.com Press), 2006
Laity, C.J., Plastic Love, (A Laity Publication), 1990
Laity, C.J., San Freedom, (Chicagopoetry.com Press), 2005
Lang, Susanna, Even Now (Backwaters Press), 2008
Lang, Susanna, Self-Portraits, (Blue Lyra Press), 2020
Lang, Susanna, Tracing the Lines (Brick Road Poetry Press), 2013
Lang, Susanna, Travel Notes from the River Styx (Terrapin Books), 2017
Lang, Susanna, Two by Two (Finishing Line Press), 2011
Lansana, Quraysh Ali, & Lightfoot, editors, Dream Of A Word, (Tia Chucha Press), 2006
Lansana, Quraysh Ali, editor, I Represent, (Tia Chucha Press), 1996
Lansana, Quraysh Ali, They Shall Run:Harriet Tubman Poems, (3rd World Press), 2004
Lastname, Bradley, Bela TArr HAs Feathered His Nest, (The Press of the Third Mind), 2007
Lastname, Bradley, Eraserhead Visits Wittgenstein
Lastname, Bradley, Malcom and Madame X
Lastname, Bradley, Oracle Whip
Lastname, Bradley, The Cultivation of Peas in a No-Crop Economy
Lastname, Bradley, The Secret Presidential Diary of William Henry Harrison, (The Press of the Third Mind), 1986
Lastname, Bradley, The Squeaky Fromme Gets The Grease
Lastname, Bradley, What I learned About Ancient Roman History from MAdalyn Murry O’Hair’s Rare Coin Collection, (The Press of the Third Mind)
Lastname, Bradley, Your Pretty Typeface is Going 2 Hell, (The Press of the Third Mind), 2008
Latimore, Jewel, Black Essence
Latimore, Jewel, Images in Black
Latimore, Jewel, Let’s Go Somewhere
LaTour, Kristin, Town Limits, (Puddin House Publications), 2007
Lawrence, Robert, Rock ‘N Roll Dreams, (Naked Mannekin), 2009
LeBlanc, Liz, Cheap Entertainment, (Ommation Press), 1986
LeBlanc, Liz, No Mean Feet, (Ommation Press), 1986
Lee, Don Luther, AKA Haki Hadhubuti, Think Black
Lee, Li-Young, Behind My Eyes, (WW Norton), 2008
Lee, Li-Young, Book of My Nights, (BOA Editions), 2001
Lee, Li-Young, Rose, (BOA Editions), 1986
Lee, Li-Young, The City in Which I Love You, (BOA Editions). 1991
Lee, Li-Young, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, (Simon & Schuster), 1995
Leer, Norman, Slightly Crumpled Survival Flower, (Spoon River Poetry Press), 1985
Levato, Francesco, Marginal State, (Fractal Edge Press), 2007
Levato, Lauren, Marriage Bones, (Fractal Edge Press), 2007
Lifshin, Lyn, 35 Sundays, (Ommation Press), 1979
Lifshin, Lyn, Old House Poems, (Capra Press), 1975
Lightfoot, Toni Asante, and Lansana, editors, Dream Of A Word, (Tia Chucha Press), 2006
Liljendahl, Eva, Explosion and Other Poems, (All-Out Publishing), 1994
Lilly, Gary Copeland, The Reprehensibles, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Lindsay, Vachel, General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, 1913
Logan, John, Cycle for Mother Cabrini, (Grove Press), 1955
Logan, John, Ghosts of the Heart: New Poems, (University of Chicago Press), 1960
Logan, John, Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream, (Ecco Press), 1981
Logan, John, Poem in Progress: Poem, (Dryad Press), 1975
Logan, John, Spring of the Thief: Poems, 1960-1962,(Knopf), 1963
Logan, John, The Anonymous Lover: New Poems, (Liveright), 1973
Logan, John, The Bridge of Change, (Boa Editions), 1981
Logan, John, The House that Jack Built…, (Abbaton Editions), 1974
Logan, John, The Zigzag Walk: Poems 1963-1968, (Dutton), 1969
Lugowski, Marek, Selamat jalan, mate, (A Small Garlic Press), 1996
Lugowski, Marek, Utah Poems, (A Small GArlic Press), 1995
Macaluso, Nicole Aimee, Verbal Paint, (The New Venue Chicago Art Press), 2002
Macaluso, Nicole Aimee, editor, Urbanations, (The New Venue Chicago Art Press), 2004
Macaluso, Nicole Aimee, editor, Urbanations: Volume 2, (The New Venue Chicago Art Press), 2004
Madhubuti, Haki, editor, Describe the Moment, (Gallery 37), 2000
Madhubuti, Haki, Freedom to Self-Destruct
Madhubuti, Haki, Groundwork: New and Selected Poems 1966-1996, 1996
Madhubuti, Haki, Heart Love: Wedding and Love Poems, 1998
Madhubuto, Haki, Run Toward Fear
Madhubuti, Haki, editor, The Spirit, (Gallery 37), 1998
Madhubuti, Haki, AKA Don Lee, Think Black
Madhubuti, Haki, Yellow Black
Mahns, Norma, Paper Plague, (SPICE), 1988
Marcusann, Mihaela, Grains of Light, (Lulu), 2007
Marcusann, Mihaela, Standing in Open Doors, (Lulu), 2006
Marino, Liz, Asylum, (Vagabond), 2020
Marino, Liz, Ceremonies, (dancing girl press), 2016
Marino, Liz, Debris, (Moon Journal Press), 2005
Marino, Liz, Debris, (The Puddin’head Press), 2011
Mark, Ellen, and Miripol, and Kaplan, editors, Separate Pleasures Anthology, (Omega Press), 1982
Marr, Bill, Autumn Window
Marshall, Joanna, I’m Noy Your Bitch, (Scars Publications), 1999
Marshall, Nate, Finna, (One World), 2020
Martin, Nathan, A Poemlet, (Nathan Martin), 2004
Martinez, John, Quiet Sulfur Night, (MFP Productions), 1999
Martinez, John, Street Preachers, Hookers, And Other Martyrs, (MFP Productions), 1998
Masiulewicz, Johnny, Happy Tapir #1: the first apartment, (Happy Tapir Press), 2016
Masiulewicz, Johnny, Happy Tapir #2: Wenatchee WA, (Happy Tapir Press), 2017
Masiulewicz, Johnny, Happy Tapir #3: A Cup of Holiday Fear, (Happy Tapir Press), 2017
Masiulewicz, Johnny, Happy Tapir #4: Tom Cruise…, (Happy Tapir Press), 2018
Masiulewicz, Johnny, Happy Tapir #5: Unstuck in [4/4} Time, (Happy Tapir Press), 2019
Masiulewicz, Johnny, professional cemetery, (The Puddin’head Press), 1997
McCabe, Bernard, & Jones, The A Poems, (Fractal Edge Press), 2003
McCarrell, Stuart, A Wild Serenity, (Xenia Press),
McCarrell, Stuart, New York, Visions, Struggles, Voices, ( ),
McCarrell, Stuart, Voices, Insistent Voices, (Xenia Press),
McConnell, Marty, When the say you can’t go home again…, (Southern Indiana University Press), 2018
McCray, Maria, Growth 2, (Maria McCray),
McGrath, Campbell, Capitalism, (Wesleyan University Press), 1992
McMillan, Patricia, Knife Lake Anthology, (Pudding House), 2006
McNiece, Ray, Dis: Voices From A Shelter, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
McNiece, Ray, Us? Talking Across America, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
McCormick, Gene, Rain On The Sun, (Outskirts Press), 2008
Melt, H., There Are Trans People Here
Messer, E.C., Gastrobestiary, (Ice Box Press), 2009
Muench, Simone, and White, Jackie K., Hex and Howl
Mihopoulos, Effie, Dancers & Stories, (Ommation Press),
Mihopoulos, Effie, Languid Love Lyrics, (Ommation Press), 1993
Mihopoulos, Effie, The Moon Cycle, (Ommation Press), 1991
Miller, Pamela, Fast Little Shoes, (Erie Street Press), 1986
Miller, Pamela, Miss Unthinkable, (Mayapple Press), 2013
Miller, Pamela, Myterious Coleslaw, (Ridgeway Press), 1993
Miller, Pamela, Recipe For Disaster, (May Apple Press), 2003
Miripol, Jerilyn, and Mark, and Kaplan, editors, Separate Pleasures Anthology, (Omega Press), 1982
Monroe, Harriet, Chosen Poems, a Selection from My Book of Verse, (), 1935
Monroe, Harriet, The Difference and Other Poems, (), 1924
Monroe, Harriet, The Passing Show-Five Modern Plays in Verse, (), 1903
Monroe, Harriet, Valeria and Other Poems, (), 1892
Monroe, Harriet, You and I, (), 1914
Morris, Wilda, Pequod Poems: Gamming with Mody Dick, (Kelsey Books), 2019
Morris, Wilda, Szechwan Shrimp & Fortune Cookies, (Rockford Writers’ Guild), 2008
Mortimer, Curtiss, Chicago in Adagio, (Cornerstone Press), 1996
Mosenson, Sandra Frank, Earth Day Lessons From the Planet Mars
Moss, Susan T., From The Dark, (Antrim Press), 2014
Moss, Susan T., Keep Moving ’til The Music Stops, (Lily Pool Press), 2006
Mueller, Leah, Cocktails at Denny’s
Mueller, Leah, Death and Heartbreak
Mueller, Leah, Misguided Behavior
Mueller, Lisel, Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, 1996
Mueller, Lisel, Life of A Queen
Mueller, Lisel, The Need To Hold Still, 1980
Mueller, Lisel, The Private Life, 1975
Muench, Simone, Trace, (Black Lawrence Press), 2014
Muench, Simone, Wolf Centos, (Sarabande), 2014
Murray, G.E., Oils Of Evening, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Newman, Charlie, Dead Machine City, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
Newman, Charlie, Words, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Nino, Raul, Breathing Light, (MARCH/Abrazo Press)
Nino, Raul, A Book of Morning, (MARCH/Abrazo Press), 2007
Offen, Ron, Off-Target, (d’cypher Press),
Okita, Dwight, Crossing With The Light, (Tia Chucha Press), 1995
Olsen, Elder, American Lyric Poems, 1963
Olsen, Elder, Collected Poems, 1963
Olsen, Elder, Last Poems, 1984
Olsen, Elder, Olsen’s Penny Arcade, 1975
Olsen, Elder, Plays and Poems 1948-58, 1958
Olsen, Elder, The Cock of Heaven, 1940
Olsen, Elder, The Scarecrow Christ, 1954
Olsen, Elder, Thing of Sorrow, 1934
Olszewska, Daniela, The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe, (Dancing Girl Press), 2008
O’Neil, Daniel X., Boilerplate, (Juggernaut Press), 1994
O’Neil, Daniel X., Bricks, (Juggernaut Press), 1992
O’Neil, Daniel X., Economics, (Juggernaut Press), 2003
O’Neil, Daniel X., Memo To All Employees, (Juggernaut Press), 1995
Otis, Arthur Frederick, A Little Book of Casual Verse, (Normandie House), 1941
Otis, Arthur Frederick, Company for Dinner and Other Casual Verse, 1943
Otis, Arthur Frederick, Digit Figets and Other Reckless Rhymes, 1963
Otis, Arthur Frederick, Forever Nineteen, (Normandie Press), 1945
Otis, Arthur Frederick, Hither and Yon, 1951
Otis, Arthur Frederick, Pay-Off and Other Verse, (self published), 1960
Overton, Harvey, Being Here, (Hidkey Press), 2003
Overton, Harvey, Hanging Out in Space,
Overton, Harvey, How We Measure Fourteen and Other Poems,
Overton, Harvey, Notes of a Stargazer,
Parisi, Joseph, editor, 100 Essential Modern Poems, (Ivan R. Dee), 2005
Parisi, Joseph, editor, 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women, (Ivan R. Dee), 2008
Parisi, Joseph & Young, editors, The Poetry Anthology (1912-2002), (Ivan R. Dee), 2002
Parson, Julie, Clark Street Lullabye, (Society for Mad Poets Press), 1985
Parson-Nesbitt, Julie, Finders, (West End Press), 1996
Parson-Nesbitt, Julie, The Teeth In The Iris, (Arroyo-Shelden Publishers), 1994
Parson, Julie, et. al., editors, Naming The Daytime Noon, (Feminist Writers Guild), 1997
Pendell, Ryan, Say to These Bones, Live, (Enright House), 2008
Peretti, Marilyn, Crack the Rifle in Two
Peretti, Marilyn, Deep In A Woman, (Splendid Press),
Peretti, Marilyn, Let Wings Take You, (Splendid Press), 2003
Peretti, Marilyn, Poems of a Woman
Peretti, Marilyn, To Love Cranes, 2000
Perkins, Eugene, An Apology To My African Brother
Perkins, Eugene, Black is Beautiful
Perlberg, Mark, The Burning Field, (Apollo), 1970
Perlberg, Mark, The Feel of the Sun, (Swallow), 1981
Perlberg, Mark, The Impossible Toystore, (LSU Press), 2000
Phillips, Xandria, Hull, (Nightbeat Books), 2019
Pinkowski, Edward, w. Gecic, Gecic, & Gorecki, Four Star Daydream, (The Puddin’head Press), 1985
Pintonelli, Deborah, Meat and Memory
Pitts, Kwame Lynn, Dancing With The Ancestors, (Chicagopoetry.com & Fractal Edge Presses), 2005
Plumpp, Sterling, Blues Narratives, (Tia Chucha Press), 1999
Plumpp, Sterling, Half-Black, Half-Blacker
Plumpp, Sterling, Johannesburg and Other Poems, (Another Chicago Press), 1993
Plumpp, Sterling, Portable Soul
Poisson, Bette J., Etcetera, Etcetera…, (Evanston Publishing), 1994
Poisson, Bette J., Life’s Reflections: Dreams and Memories, (Evanston Publishing)
PolyRhythmic Collective, Hosts At Trace, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Porter, Kayleah Jewel, Faith 2 Talk, (Kayleah Jewel Porter),
Porter, Norman AKA JJ Jameson, Lady Rutherfurd’s Cauliflower, (The Puddin’head Press), 1999
Potrafka, Brian, Poems, (Everyvillage Pub. Co.), 1992
Price, C. Russell, Oh, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems
Price, C. Russell, Tonight, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other, (Sibling Rivalry Press), 2016
Pucciani, Donna, Jumping Off The Train, (Windstorm Creative), 2008
Pucciani, Donna, The Other Side of Thunder, (Flarestack Press), 2006
Pugh, Christina, Grains of the Voice, (Northwestern University Press), 2013
Pugh, Christina, Restoration, (Northwestern University Press), 2008
Pugh, Christina, Rotory, (Word Press), 2004
Puican, Mike, 39 Seconds, (Tia Chucha)
Puican, Mike, Central Air, (TriQuarterly Books), 2020
Quade, Helen A., Where Undulating Hills Meet, (Moon Journal Press),
Ravesloot, Jenene, Loot: Stolen Memories & Tales Out of School, (First Flight Books), 2008
Randall, Dudley, with Danner, Poem, Counterpoem, 1966
Redd, Jim, editor, The Word Salad Anthology, (Black Dog Press), 1997
Reddy, Srikanth, Facts for Visitors
Reddy, Srikanth, Voyager
Reynard, Charles, The Utility of Heartbreak, (Pikestaff Press), 2010
Riley, Kwyn Townsend, And She Worthy
Roarty, Joe, Choruses I, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Roarty, Joe, Horn, ( ),
Roberson, Ed, Asked What Changed, (Wesleyan University Press), 2021
Roberson, Ed, MPH and Other Road Poems, (Verge Books)
Roby, Tom, Griever’s Circuit, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Roby, Tom, Shape Shifter, (The Puddin’head Press), 2008
Rodgers, Carolyn M., Paper Soul
Rodgers, Carolyn M., Songs of a Black Bird
Rodgers, Carolyn M., Two Love Raps
Rodriguez, Luis, Poems Across The Pavement, (Tia Chucha Press),
Rodriguez, Luis, editor, Powerlines, (Tia Chucha Press), 1999
Rodriguiz, Luis, The Concrete River, (Curbstone Press), 1991
Rodriguez, Luis, The Republic of East L.A., (Tia Chucha Press), 1999
Rogue (C. Gordon), Rogue Logic, (Reptile House Press), 1995
Rogue (C. Gordon), Rodue Poetry #4, (Reptile House Press), 1995
Rollings, Alane, In Your Own Sweet Time, 1989
Rollings, Alane, The Struggle to Adore, (Story Line Press), 1994
Rollings, Alane, Transparent Landscapes, 1984
Rooney, Kathleen, Robinson Alone, (Gold Wake Press), 2012
Rooney, Kathleen, & Gabbert, Elisa, Don’t ever stay the same, keep changing, (Spooky Girlfrind Press), 2009
Rooney, Kathleen, & Gabbert, Elisa, The Kind of Beauty that Has Nowhere to Go, (Hyacinth Girl Press), 2013
Rose, Emily, Cigarette Love Songs and Nicotine Kisses, (Cross+Roads Press), 2004
Rossiter, Charles, All Over America: Road Poems, (FootHills Publishing), 2009
Rossiter, Charles, The Night We Danced With The Raelettes, (FootHills Publishing), 2007
Rossiter, Charles and DeGenova, Back Beat, (Crossroads Press),
Rossitor, Charles and Degenova, Back Beat, Second Edition, (Fractal Edge Press),
Rubin, Gertrude, A Beating Of Wings, (Lake Shore Publishing), 1997
Rubin, Gertrude, The Passover Poems, ( ),
Rubin, Maggie, Wanderlust, (Chicagopoetry.com Press), 2004
Rundell-Holmes, Mary, Fireflies on the Lawn, (Odyssey Books), 2002
Rutlidge, Frank, Tiny Lanterns, ( ),
Sala, Jerome, Raw Deal: New and Selected Poems, 1980-1994, (Another Chicago Press), 1994
Sala, Jerome, Spaz Attack, (Stave Press), 1980
Salach, Cin, Looking for a Soft Place to Land, (Tia Chucaha Press), 1996
Sandburg, Carl, Chicago Poems, 1916
Sandburg, Carl, Cornhuskers, 1918
Sandburg, Carl, Good Morning, America, 1928
Sandburg, Carl, In Reckless Ecstasy, 1904
Sandburg, Carl, Selected Poems, 1926
Sandburg, Carl, Slabs of the Sunburnt West, 1922
Sandburg, Carl, Smoke and Steel, 1920
Sandburg, Carl, The People, Yes, 1936
Sanchez, Erika L., Lessons on Explusion, (Graywolf Press), 2007
Sautter, R. Craig, 26 Martyrs for These Latter Perilous Days, (December Press), 2005
Sautter, R. Craig, Expresslanes Through the Inevitable City, (December Press), 1990
Sautter, R. Criag, Inside the Wigwam, (Loyola Press), 1996
Sautter, R. Criag, The Sound of One Hand Typing, (Anaphora Press), 2020
Sautter, R. Craig, Wicked City Chicago, (December Press), 1994
Schandelmeier, Cathleen, Chicago Phoenix, (The Puddin’head Press),
Schandelmeier, Cathleen, Scream and I’ll Believe You, (Cuchetto Publishing), 1994
Schooner, Amy Jo, A New Page, (chapbook)
Schoonover, Amy Jo, A Sonnet Sampler, (chapbook)
Schoonover, Amy Jo, Echoes of New England, (chapbook)
Schoonover, Amy Jo, New And Used Poems, (Lake Shore Publishing), 1988
Schroeder, Steven, Six Stops South, (Cherry Grove Collections), 2009
Schwartz, Charles, Between the Sheets
Schwartz, Charles, Poetry Moments
Schwartz, Charles, Under My Skin
Seasholtz, Shappy, Spoken Nerd Revolution
Severin, Melissa, Brute Fact, (Dancing Girl Press), 2008
Shafer, Anthony, and Stagg, Light Pollution, ( ),
Sheehan, John, Elsewhere Indiana, ( A & B Press), 1992
Sheehan, John, Leaving Gary, (Tia Chucha Press),
Siegel, Barry, Echoes of the Heart: Passionate Declarations
Siegel, Barry, Yellow Sun, Blue Moon
Silesky, Barry, The New Tenants, (Eye of the Comet Press), 1992
Slatton, Iniesha, Buried In Me, (Self Published), 2020
Smith, Jared, Controlled By Ghosts – CD, (Practical Music Studio), 2007
Smith, Jared, Dark Wing (Charred Norton Publishing), 1984
Smith, Jared, Keeping The Outlaw Alive (Erie Street Press), 1988
Smith, Jared, Lake Michigan And Other Poems, (The Puddin’head Press), 2005
Smith, Jared, Seven Minutes Before The Bombs Drop – CD, (Artvilla), 2006
Smith, Jared, Song Of The Blood: An Epic (The Smith Press), 1983
Smith, Jared, That’s How It Is, (Stubbon Mule Press), 2020
Smith, Jared, The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations, (Higganum Hill Books), 2008
Smith, Jared, Walking The Perimeters Of The Plate Glass Window Factory (Birch Brook Press), 2001
Smith, Jared, Where Images Become Imbued With Time, (The Puddin’head Press), 2007
Smith, Marc, Cat On A Coffin, ( ),
Smith, Marc, Crowdpleaser, (Collage Press), 1996
Smith, Patricia, Big Town, Big Talk, (Zoland Books), 2002
Smith, Patricia, Blood Dazzler, (Coffee House Press), 2008
Smith, Patricia, Close To Death, (Zoland Books), 1998
Smith, Patricia, Life According To Motown, (Tia Chucha Press), 1991
Smith, Patricia, Teahouse of the Almighty, (Coffee House Press), 2006
Solis, Daniel S., The Other Thing, (Trouble Child Press), 1994
Spelius, Carol, Aqueous & Other Tales, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Spelius, Carol, I, Mancha, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Spelius, Carol, Soundings: A Poetry Anthology, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Stagg, Anthony, & Schafer, Light Pollution, ( ),
Starrs, John, The Suburban Poems, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Steele, Jennifer, A House in its Hunger, (Central Square Press), 2018
Stewart, Marydale, Inheritance, (The Puddin’head Press), 2008
Swanberg, Christine, Bread Upon The Waters, (UW: Whitewater), 1990
Swanberg, Christine, Invisible String, (Erie Street Press), 1990
Swanberg, Christine, Slow Miracle, (Lake Shore), 1992
Swanberg, Christine, The Alleluia Tree, (The Puddin’head Press), 2012
Swanberg, Christine, The Red Lacquer Room, (Chiron Press), 2001
Swanberg, Christine, Tonight on This Late Road, (Erie Street Press), 1984
Swanberg, Christine, Wild Fruition, (The Puddin’head Press), 2017
Swanberg, Christine, Who Walks Among the Trees with Charity, (Wind Publications), 2005
Swinford-Wasum, Adam, Seeing My Mother Off and Other Poems, (NVCAP), 2003
Sznajder, Ariel, & Kitzis, editorsBig Pen 3, ( ), 2004
Tapley, Natasha, & Glynn, editors, Silent Holler, (Chicago BOA), 2006
Tate, Bruce, Shakespeare’s Funky Love Cats, (Nayla Publishing),
Tate, Marvin, Schoolyard of Broken Dreams, (Tia Chucha Press),
Thordarson, Alyssa, Bare Bones and Letters to Lovers, 2020
Tindall, J.J., Joe the Dream, (Bagman Press), 1990
Torgersen, Don Arthur, editor, Port Chicago Poets, (Chicago International Manuscripts), 1966
Tretheway, Natasha, Bellocqs Ophelia, (Graywolf Press), 2002
Tretheway, Natasha, Domestic Work, (Graywolf Press), 2000
Tretheway, Natasha, Monument, (Houghton Mifflin), 2008
Tretheway, Natasha, Native Guard, (Houghton Mifflin), 2006
Tretheway, Natasha, Thrall, (Houghton Mifflin), 2012
Trigilio, Tony, The Llama’s English Lesson, (Three Candles Press), 2006
Trinidad, David, Answer Song, (High Risk/Serpent’s Tail), 1994
Trinidad, David, Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988, (Amethyst Press), 1991
Trinidad, David, Pavane, (Sherwood Press), 1981
Trinidad, David, Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse, (Turtle Point Press), 2003
Trinidad, David, Plasticville, (Turtle Point Press), 2000
Trinidad, David, The Late Show, (Turtle Point Press), 2007
Tuggle, Billy, Conscience Under Pressure, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Tuggle, Billy, The Way of the B-Boy, (self-published), 2012
Turcotte, Mark, Exploding Chippewas
Turcotte, Mark, The Feathered Heart, (MARCH Abrazo), 1995
Two-Rivers, E. Donald, A Dozen Cold Ones, (March Abrazo),
Two-Rivers, E. Donald, Pow Wows, Fat Cats, And Other Indian Tales, (Mammoth Publications), 2003
Tyler, Lawrence, Prophecies, (The Puddin’head Press), 1990
Valente, Judith, Discovering Moons, (Virtual Artists Collective), 2009
Verela, Frank, Bitter Coffee, (MARCH/Abrazo), 2001
Verela, Frank, Serpent Underfoot,
Vertreace, Martha M., Cinnabar, (Flume Press), 1995
Vertreace, Martha M., Dragon Lady: Tsukimi, (Riverstone), 1999
Vertreace, Martha M., Glacier Fire, (Word Press), 2004
Vertreace, Martha M., Light Caught Bending, (Diehard Publishing), 1995
Vertreace, Martha M., Maafa: When Night Becomes A Lion, (Ion Books), 1996
Vertreace, Martha M., Oracle Bones, (White Eagle Coffee Store Press), 1998
Vertreace, Martha M., Second House From The Corner, (Kennedy-King College), 1986
Vertreace, Martha M., Second Mourning, (Diehard Publishers), 1998
Vertreace, Martha M., Smokeless Flame, (Firth Press), 1998
Vevang, Curt B, A Scant Bagatelle, (Create Space), 2016
Vevang, Curt B, Poetry As We Like It, (Create Space), 2020
Vevang, Curt B, Poetry of the Engineer, (Curt B. Vevang), 2021
Vevang, Curt B, The Prince, and the Elf Too (Create Space), 2014
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, A Neon Tryst, (Shearsman Press), 2013
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star, (dancing girl press), 2006
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, Honey Is A She, (Plastique Press), 2012
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, Professional Poetry, (White Hole Press), 2013
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, Shooting Dead Films With Poets, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, Spiny Retinas, (Notable Sound), 2014
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, Shooting Dead Films With Poets, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, The Range of Your Amazing Nothing, (Revenna Press), 2010
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, these are my dreams (ebook), (White Hole Press), 2013
Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, White Stockings, (White Hole Press), 2015, 2019, 2019
Vogel, Constance, Caged Birds, (Lake Shore Publishing), 1994
Vogel, Constance, The Mulberry, (Finishing Line Press), 2004
Vorreyer, Donna, To Everything There Is, (Sundress Publications), 2020
Walker, Michelle, Mercury, (Inertia Press), 1995
Walker, Tara, Sewn Into the Nest, (Ice Box Press), 2009
Warr, Michael, You Are The Black Boy, (Tia Chucha Press),
Webster, Rachel Jamison, Blue Grotto, (dancing girl press)
Webster, Rachel Jamison, Hazel and the Mirror, (dancing girl press)
Webster, Rachel Jamison, September Poems
Weinman, Paul and Goldman, I Grabbed Her Tits, (Then, Press), 1993
White, Jackie K, and Muench, Simone, Hex and Howl
Winfield, Larry, Erzuli, ( ),
Winfield, Larry, Rosedust, (12.23 Press), 1999
Winters, Eileen M., On The Streets of Chicago, ( ),
Yarrow, Bill, Accelerant, (Nixes Mate Books) 2019
Yarrow, Bill, Against Prompts, (Lit Fest Press), 2018
Yarrow, Bill, Blasphemer, (Lit Fest Press), 2015
Yarrow, Bill, Critique of Pure Dreaming, (academia.edu), 2023
Yarrow, Bill, Fourteen, (Naked Mannekin Press), 2011
Yarrow, Bill, Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku, (Cervena Barva Press), 2013
Yarrow, Bill, Pointed Sentences, (BlazeVOX), 2012
Yarrow, Bill, The Lice of Christ, (MadHat Press), 2014
Yarrow, Bill, The Vig of Love, (Glass Lyre Press), 2016
Yarrow, Bill, We All Saw It Coming, (Locofo Chaps, Moria Books), 2017
Yarrow, Bill, Wrench, (erbacce press), 2009
YCA, “Untitled” & Other poetic works with names, (YCA), 1998
Young, Steven & Parisi, editors, The Poetry Anthology (1912-2002), (Ivan R. Dee), 2002
Anthology, Emergency Tacos (MARCH/Abrazo)
Non-Poetry Books Associated with Chicago Poets
NON-POETRY BOOKS AT LEAST SLIGHTLY ASSOCIATED WITH CHICAGO POETRY
Adams,Lance, Euphoric, (Lance Adams), 1998
Adams, Lance, Green Haired Boy, (Hunger and Dread), 2004
Allen, Jeffrey Renard, Holding Pattern, (Graywolf Press), 2008
Allen, Jeffery Renard, Rails UNder My Back, (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), 2000
Allen, Jeffrey Renard, Song of the Shank, 2014
Badikian, Beatriz, Old Gloves, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
Boone, Robert, Hack, (Highland Press), 1978
Boone, Robert, Inside Job, (The Puddin’head Press), 2003
Brooks, Gwendolyn, Maud Martha, (Third World Press), 1992
Brown, Tim, On Sagamon, (Depth Charge Press), 1994
Cisneros, Sandra, The House on Mango Street, (Arte Publico Press),
Di Prima, Diane, Dinners and Nightmares
Farmer, Marylynn, Pressed, 2018
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