The end of Chiraq : a literary mixtape / edited by Javon Johnson and Kevin Coval ; with writers from Young Chicago Authors & Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival.
Publication
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Preface / Javon Johnson and Kevin Coval -- Intro / Javon Johnson -- Welcome to Chiraq -- On hearing King Louie / Andrew Barber -- When King Louie first heard the word Chiraq / Kevin Coval -- To live and die in "Chiraq" / Mariame Kaba -- Rome wasn't built in a day / Malcolm London -- Memories / Aneko Jackson -- Windowpain : Bryce Thomas / Nile Lansa -- My grandmother tells me and my cousins why she hates the word Chiraq ... / Demetrius Amparan -- Do we even need to be understood to get free? / Page May -- 9 of disks / Fatimah Ashgar -- Frank Bradely : interview / by Aneko Jackson -- How America loves Chicago's ghosts more than the people still living in the city : an erasure poem / Jacqui Germain -- A tale of two & many cities -- I am Windy City / Patricia Frazier -- If you aren't from Chicago / Tim "Toaster" Henderson -- Concrete flowers / Aneko Jackson -- Chicago is the world's Harold's Chicken box / Kara Jackson -- When asked about Chicago : a confession / Alfonzo Kahlil -- History, as written by the victors / Krista Franklin -- Ye though I walk through Chi / Naudia j. Williams -- Ghazal for White Hen Pantry / Jamila Woods -- Holy hermosa / Sara Geiger -- Corn man on every corner / Sammy Ortega -- Into a white neighborhood / Melinda Hernandez -- Poem for Cal City : confession / Jose Olivarez -- In the Bridgeport row house / Natalie Richardson -- I'm from Chicago, but not really / Michael Cuaresma -- Daughter / Claire DeRosa -- Damon / Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep Louder Than a Bomb Team.
Flatline / Raymesha Henry -- Dboy black : a poem for Briyae / Brittney Kapri -- Black boy dreams / Aneko Jackson -- Ode to North Lawndale / Anton Charles Sanders -- Contesting the narrative -- Drill / Breanna Bonslater -- Why is the Chicago Police Department targeting Chief Keef? / Jake Krez -- We real / Kevin Coval -- Why do black boys smoke so much weed? / Demetrius Amparan -- Kill the noise(y) / Tara C. Mahadevan -- Windowpain : Raymond a.k.a. Lil' Ray / Nile Lansa -- The go / Marwin "Stark of HUEY" Williams -- Notes for Mars Blackmon on the making of Spike Lee's film Chi-raq / Kevin Coval -- Spike Lee's Chi-raq isn't strong enough to hold the city it exploits / Brittney Kapri -- Why I'm bootlegging Chi-raq / A Nate Marshall Joint -- The culture is the art -- Rethinking revolution : creating space for the black body through the spoken word / Alfonzo Kahlil -- Hip hop poet / Marvin Tate -- Woop wop de bam / Nate Marshall -- Search / KZ -- The stoop / Jalen Kobayashi -- Slay / KZ -- Speak / E'mon Lauren -- I tag CTA / Sammy Ortega -- Flower breaking through the concrete : an interview with Liz Lazdins / Leah Love -- In the business : a manifesto / Miguel Aguilar -- On afro-futurism : a roundtable with D. Denenge Akpem, Damon Locks, and Ytasha L. Womack / Leah Love -- Captives public showing / Matthew Wilbourn -- The future of Chicago -- Ghost town / Idris Goodwin -- Mama Emily tells the story / Sarah McKee -- Out the trap : building with the elephant rebellion / Grace Jones -- Paradise on fire / Jahnari Pruitt -- How to win reparations / Sarah Macaraeg and Yana Kunichoff -- By & by / Jamila Woods -- Somewhere, upcoming / Kara Jackson -- Toward the unreasonable / Page May and Nate Marshall -- Water pressure / Sammy Ortega -- #blacklivesmatter and ... the six unconditionals / Dr. Haki Madhubuti -- Ode to dawn / Gellila Asmanmaw -- Outro / Kevin Coval.