Eve L. Ewing, page 28 from Electric Arches, Haymarket Books, 2017
This collection of poems is meant as a small offering, an entry point into a conversation about a part of our history that I think is worth talking about much more than we do. Almost every poem in this collection is in conversation with a passage from The Negro in Chicago. You’ll see those passages written in italics at the top of the page. The page number in parentheses represents the place where you can find the passage in The Negro in Chicago. The report is a publicly available document.
—Eve L. Ewing, excerpt from “This book is a story,” Introduction to 1919
Eve L. Ewing, pages 41–42 from 1919, Haymarket Books, 2019
Eve L. Ewing, pages 56–58 from 1919, Haymarket Books, 2019
Eve L. Ewing, pages 65–67 from 1919, Haymarket Books, 2019
Eve L. Ewing, page 28 from Electric Arches, Haymarket Books, 2017
Eve L. Ewing, pages 41–42; 56–58; 65–67 from 1919, Haymarket Books, 2019
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This collection of poems is meant as a small offering, an entry point into a conversation about a part of our history that I think is worth talking about much more than we do. Almost every poem in this collection is in conversation with a passage from The Negro in Chicago. You’ll see those passages written in italics at the top of the page. The page number in parentheses represents the place where you can find the passage in The Negro in Chicago. The report is a publicly available document.
—Eve L. Ewing, excerpt from “This book is a story,” Introduction to 1919