José Olivarez & Calumet City—maps might make the world legible, but poetry reveals “the little cracks in the totality.” Literary Landscapes by Ava Tomasula y Garcia.
José Olivarez – Calumet City, Illinois
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Section: Illinois
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Marika Josephson, 2023 Artist
“My art follows a similar tack to [my brewery], exploring what is unique about southern Illinois utilizing found materials natural to our environment.”
Lisel Mueller – Forest Haven, Illinois
Lisel Mueller 27240 N. Longwood Dr. Forest Haven, Illinois By Jenny Mueller “Our trees are aspens, but people / mistake them for birches” — so begins Lisel Mueller’s “Another Version,” set in 1970s Midwestern suburbia. This proves to be a territory of error. After...
Hugo Martinez-Serros – Chicago, Illinois
Hugo Martinez-Serros & South Chicago City Dump—Depression-era salvage in a “a great raw sore on the landscape.”
Elijah Lovejoy – Alton, IL
The publisher of an abolitionist newspaper, killed by a mob in 1837 after calling for “hearty and zealous efforts” to end slavery.
Mary Hunter Austin – Carlinville, Illinois
Mary Hunter Austin & Blackburn College—a kinship in the desire to walk about unhampered and forge meaningful connections. #LiteraryLandscapes by Karen Dillon & Naomi Crummey.
Gwendolyn Brooks – Chicago, Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks & South Side Community Art Center—looking back toward Bronzeville: Brooks’s voice above the hum. #LiteraryLandscapes
Sandra Cisneros – Chicago, Illinois
Humboldt Park—where the condo that replaced the house on Mango Street “has an attenuated look, seeming to both belong and not belong.”
Willa Cather – Chicago, Illinois
Willa Cather & the Fine Arts Building—a respite from the “blur of smoke and wind and noise” in the capital of the Middle Empire.
Edgar Lee Masters – Petersburg, Illinois
Ann Rutledge’s Grave—Jason Stacy on lost love, Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, and exhuming the legends of Petersburg, Illinois.