Oct 6, 2021 | Author Houses, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 5, Writers of Color
SANDRA CISNEROS 1525 N. Campbell Ave.Chicago, Illinois By Olga L. Herrera I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s in the Little Village neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago. At the time, the area was in transition between Eastern Europeans leaving for the suburbs...
Oct 5, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Poets, Volume 3, Writers of Color
ROBERT HAYDEN Paradise ValleyDetroit, Michigan By Ayesha K. Hardison Robert Hayden’s poems are artifacts from a long-gone yet storied neighborhood in Detroit. He grew up in Paradise Valley, the near east side commercial district adjacent to the more residential...