There have been many poetry books big and small, sucessful 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.

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
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Amberg, Jay, 52 Poems For Men,(Amika Press), 2001
Anderson, Carol, Ordinary, (The Puddin'head Press), 2005
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Anderson, Victoria, This Country or That, (Mid-American Press), 2001
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Badikian, Beatriz, Akewa is a Woman, (MARCH/Abrazo Press),
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Badikian, Beatriz, Mapmaker Revisited, (Gladsome Books), 1999
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Badikian, Beatriz, et al., editors, Naming The Daytime Noon, 1987
Barr, David, Woman of My Dreams, (Weinberg Press), 2006
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Barnidge, Mary Shen, Parties And Poets In Whitewater, Milwaukee, DeKalb, Philadelphia, Okinawa And Chicago, 1977
Barnidge, Mary Shen, Piano Player At The Dionysia, 1984
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
Betts, Tara, Switch, 2003
Beyond The MC, Black On White, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Bianchi, Raymond, The American Master, (Moria Books), 2006
Bianchi, Raymond and Allegrezza, editors, The City Visible, (Cracked Slab Books), 2007
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Bitts, Shelia, Colected Poems (1988-2008), (Trafford Publishing), 2008
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Blechman, Sam, Through My Eyes, (The Puddin'head Press),
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Blinn, Lucia, Navigating The Night, ( ),
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Blinn, Lucia, Passing For Normal, ( ),
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Blinn, Lucia, Sounds Like Lucia CD, ( ),
Bono, Jose, Very Chicago, (Jose Bono), 1998
Bottiglieri, Jan, A Place Beyond Luck, (Moon Journal Press), 2004
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), 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
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Brooks, Gwendolyn, Primer For Blacks, (Third World Press), 1991
Brown, Glen, Yes, No, Maybe, (Lake Shore Pubishing),
Brown, Michael R., Falling Wallendas, (Tia Chucha Press), 1994
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Brownstein, Michael, Drum Poems, ( ),
Brownstein, Michael, Drum Stories, ( ),
Brownstein, Michael, Period of Trees, (Snark Publishing), 2004
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Brownstein, Michael, Poems From The Body Bag, (Ommation Press), 1989
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Brownstein, Michael, What Stone Is, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
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Burckhardt & Katz, New York Hello, (Ommation Press),
Buscani, Lisa, Jangle, (Tia Chucha Press), 1990
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Calish, Richard, I've Been Away So Many Lives, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Carbo, Nick, El Grupo McDonald's, (Tia Chucha Press), 1998
Carroll, Jim, Living At The Movies, (Grossman Pub.), 1971
Carroll, Jim, Living At The Movies, (Penguin Books), 1981
Cherry, Susan, Breaking Into The Safe Of Life, (Chicago Spectrum Press), 2003
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Cherry, Susan, Hole to Whole, ,
Cherry, Susan, I Am The Pools's Parameter, (Chicago Spectrum Press), 2008
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Cherry, Susan, Reflecting Pool, (Chicago Spectrum Press), 2006
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Cherry, Susan, Sonata in the Key of Being,
Cisneros, Sandra, Bad Boys, (Mango Press), 1980
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
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Cleary, Daniel, Root River Trail, (Daniel Cleary), 2004
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Cleary, Daniel, The Green Ribbon, (Enright House),
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Coppoc, Jim, Blood, Sex and Prayer, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
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Corwin, Nina, Conversations With Friendly Demons And Tainted Saints, (The Puddin'head Press), 1999
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Corwin, Nina, editor, Inhabiting The Body, (Moon Journal Press),
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Cumpian, Carlos, Armadillo Charm, (Tia Chucha Press), 1996
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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),
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Dean, Larry O., I Am Spam, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Dean, Larry O., Identity Theft For Dummies, (Zenith Beast Books), 2004
DeGenova, Al, The Blueing Hours, (Virtual Artists Collective), 2008
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DeGenova, Al and Rossiter, Back Beat, (Crossroads Press), 2001
DeGenova, Al and Rossitor, Back Beat, Second Edition, (Fractal Edge Press),
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DeKatch, Scott, Oceans And Landmass, (Scott Dekatch), 2004
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DeKatch, Scott, Talking Around Reason, (Scott DeKatch), 2004
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Dickson, John, Lake Michigan Scrolls, (The Puddin'head Press), 2002
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Dickson, John, The Music of Solid Objects, (Thorntree Press), 1997
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Dickson, John, Victoria Hotel, ( ), 1980
Dickson, John, Waving At Trains, (Thorntree Press), 1986
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Diggs, Alfred, Naturally Black
Donahue, Shelia, Avalanche Expert, ( ),
Eady, Cornelius, Victims Of The Latest Dance Craze, (Ommation Press), 1986
Eiden, William, Cook County Forest Preserves, ( ),
Eleveld, Mark, The Spoken Word Revolution with Audio CD, (Sourcebooks Media Fusion), 2005
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Eleveld, Mark, The Spoken Word Revolution Redux, (Sourcebooks Media Fusion), 2007
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Engler, Robert Klein, Departures, (Alphbeta Press),
Engler, Robert Klein, Empty Chair By Moonlight, (Alphabeta Press),
Engler, Robert Klein, One Hundred Poems, (Alphabeta Press),
Equi, Elaine, The Cloud of Knowable Things
Fammaree, Richard, Lessons of Water and Thirst, (Puddin'head Press & Collage Press),
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
Flannery, Maureen Tolman, A Fine Line, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Flannery, Maureen Tolman, Ancestors In The Landscape, (John Gordan Burke Publisher, Inc.), 2004
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Flannery, Maureen Tolman, Secret Of The Rising Up, ( ),
Freund, Edith, Sit By Me, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Gallaher, Cynthia, Night Ribbons, (Polar Bear Press), 1989
Gallaher, Cynthia, Swimmer's Prayer, (Missing Spoke Press), 1999
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Gangas, Patricia, editor, A Taste Of Poetry... Chicago Style, (Poets & Patrons), 1996
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, Reginold, In The Warhouse, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Gibson, Regie, Storms Beneath The Skin, (EM Press),
Glynn, Pam & Tapley, editors, Silent Holler, (Chicago BOE), 2006
Goldsmith, Sandy, Imaging Center, (The Puddin'head Press), 2007
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Gorecki, George, w. Gecic, Gecic, & Pinkowski, Four Star Daydream, (The Puddin'head Press), 1985
Green, Chris, Conceptual Animals, (Sheltering Poems Press), 2006
Green, Chris, The Sky Over Walgreens, (Mayapple Press), 2007
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Greenberg-Bywater, Arielle, Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials, (New Michigan), 2003
Greenberg-Bywater, Arielle, Given, (Verse), 2002
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Greenberg-Bywater, Arielle, My Kafka Century, (Action Books), 2003
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Hammond, Steven, P, Anyone, (BookSurge, LLC), 2005
Hanrahan, Dan, Building 17, ( ),
Hanrahan, Dan, Sermon of the Mouth - Tape, ( ),
Harper, Elizabeth, Fairy Tales Gone Awry, (Elizabeth Harper), 2006
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Harper, Elizabeth, Love Songs from Psychopaths, (Elizabeth Harper), 2006
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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
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Hernandez, David, The Urban Poems, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Hernandez, David, Rooftop Piper, (Tia Chucha Press), 1991
Hernandez, David & Streetsounds, Satin City Serenade - CD,
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Hogan, Louise Mae, So I Wrote It Down, (Louise Mae Hogan), 1951
Holtkanp, Nissa, Tinterchange, ( ), 2006
Hoover, Paul, Somebody Talks A Lot, (Yellow Press), 1982
Howard, Jean, Dancing in Your Mother's Skin, (Tia Chucha Press), 1991
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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
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Jablonovec, Ida Therese, editor, Stray Bullets, (Tia Chucha Press), 1990
Janowski, Larry, BrotherKeeper, (The Puddin'head Press), 2007
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Janowski, Larry, Chicago Cantata, (Namiste Press), 2002
Johnson, Priscilla A., From The Foxes Den, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Jones, Wayne Allen, Decades of Rehersal, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Jones, Wayne Allen, Stone Works, (Fractal Edge Press), 2002
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Jones, Wayne Allen & McCabe, The A Poems, (Fractal Edge Press), 2003
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Kanter, Carol, And Baby Makes Three: Self Care for New Parents, (Apocryphile Press), 2005
Katz & Burckhardt, New York Hello, (Ommation Press),
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
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Kitzis, Lee, The Laudromat Girl, (The Puddin'head Press),
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Kitzis, Lee, editor, The Anti-Mensch, (The Puddin'head Press), 1996
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Kitzis, Lee, editor, The Anti-Mensch II, (The Puddin'head Press), 1997
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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, 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, 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
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
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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., License To Quill, (Chicagopoetry.com Press), 2004
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Laity, C. J., editor, Best Of Chicago Poetry, (ChicagoPoetry.com Press), 2006
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, 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
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LeBlanc, Liz, Cheap Entertainment, (Ommation Press), 1986
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LeBlanc, Liz, No Mean Feet, (Ommation Press), 1986
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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 Youe, (BOA Editions). 1991
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Lee, Li-Young, The Winged Seed: A Rememberance, (Simon & Schuster), 1995
Levato, Francesco, Marginal State, (Fractal Edge Press), 2007
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Levato, Lauren, Marriage Bones, (Fractal Edge Press), 2007
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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
Lilly, Gary Copeland, The Reprehensibles, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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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
Macaluso, Nicole Aimee, Verbal Paint, (The New Venue Chicago Art Press), 2002
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Macaluso, Nicole Aimee, editor, Urbanations, (The New Venue Chicago Art Press), 2004
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Macaluso, Nicole Aimee, editor, Urbanations: Volume 2, (The New Venue Chicago Art Press), 2004
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Marino, Liz, Debris, (Moon Journal Press), 2005
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Martinez, John, Quiet Sulfur Night, ( ),
Martinez, John, Street Preachers, Hookers, And Other Martyrs, (MFP Productions), 1998
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Masiulewicz, Johnny, professional cemetery, (The Puddin'head Press), 1997
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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),
McCray, Maria, Growth 2, (Maria McCray),
McMillan, Patricia, Knife Lake Anthology, (Pudding House), 2006
McNiece, Ray, Dis: Voices From A Shelter, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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McNiece, Ray, Us? Talking Across America, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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McCormick, Gene, Rain On The Sun, (Outskirts Press), 2008
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Mihopoulos, Effie, Dancers & Stories, (Ommation Press),
Mihopoulos, Effie, Languid Love Lyrics, (Ommation Press), 1993
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Mihopoulos, Effie, The Moon Cycle, (Ommation Press), 1991
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Miller, Pamela, Recipe For Disaster, (May Apple Press), 2003
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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
Mortimer, Curtiss, Chicago in Adagio, (Cornerstone Press), 1996
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Moss, Susan T., Keep Moving 'til The Music Stops, (Lily Pool Press), 2006
Murray, G.E., Oils Of Evening, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Newman, Charlie, Dead Machine City, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
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Newman, Charlie, Words, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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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
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
Overton, Harvey, Being Here, (Hidkey Press), 2003
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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
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Parisi, Joseph, editor, 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women, (Ivan R. Dee), 2008
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Parisi, Joseph & Young, editors, The Poetry Anthology (1912-2002), (Ivan R. Dee), 2002
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Parson, Julie, Clark Street Lullabye, (Society for Mad Poets Press), 1985
Parson-Nesbitt, Julie, Finders, (West End Press), 1996
Parson, Julie, et. al., editors, Naming The Daytime Noon, (Feminist Writers Guild), 1997
Peretti, Marilyn, Deep In A Woman, (Splendid Press),
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Peretti, Marilyn, Let Wings Take You, (Splendid Press), 2003
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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
Pinkowski, Edward, w. Gecic, Gecic, & Gorecki, Four Star Daydream, (The Puddin'head Press), 1985
Pitts, Kwame Lynn, Dancing With The Ancestors, (Chicagopoetry.com & Fractal Edge Presses), 2005
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Plumpp, Sterling, Blues Narratives, (Tia Chucha Press), 1999
Plumpp, Sterling, Half-Black, Half-Blacker
Plumpp, Sterling, Portable Soul
PolyRhythmic Collective, Hosts At Trace, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Porter, Kayleah Jewel, Faith 2 Talk, (Kayleah Jewel Porter),
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Porter, Norman AKA JJ Jameson, Lady Rutherfurd's Cauliflower, (The Puddin'head Press), 1999
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Pucciani, Donna, Jumping Off The Train, (Windstorm Creative), 2008
Pucciani, Donna, The Other Side of Thunder, (Flarestack Press), 2006
Quade, Helen A., Where Undulating Hills Meet, (Moon Journal Press),
Randall, Dudley, with Danner, Poem, Counterpoem, 1966
Roarty, Joe, Choruses I, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Roarty, Joe, Horn, ( ),
Roby, Tom, Griever's Circuit, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Roby, Tom, Shape Shifter, (The Puddin'head Press), 2008
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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
Rose, Emily, Cigarette Love Songs and Nicotine Kisses, (Cross+Roads Press), 2004
Rossiter, Charles, The Night We Danced With The Raelettes, (FootHills Publishing),
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
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Rubin, Gertrude, The Passover Poems, ( ),
Rubin, Maggie, Wanderlust, (Chicagopoetry.com Press), 2004
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Rutlidge, Frank, Tiny Lanterns, ( ),
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
Schandelmeier, Cathleen, Chicago Phoenix, (The Puddin'head Press),
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Severin, Melissa, Brute Fact, (Dancing Girl Press), 2008
Shafer, Anthony, and Stagg, Light Pollution, ( ),
Sheehan, John, Leaving Gary, (Tia Chucha Press),
Smith, Jared, Controlled By Ghosts - CD, (Practical Music Studio), 2007
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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
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Smith, Jared, Seven Minutes Before The Bombs Drop - CD, (Artvilla), 2006
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Smith, Jared, Song Of The Blood: An Epic (The Smith Press), 1983
Smith, Jared, The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations, (Higganum Hill Books), 2008
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Smith, Jared, Walking The Perimeters Of The Plate Glass Window Factory (Birch Brook Press), 2001
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Smith, Jared, Where Images Become Imbued With Time, (The Puddin'head Press), 2007
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Smith, Marc, Cat On A Coffin, ( ),
Smith, Marc, Crowdpleaser, (Collage Press), 1996
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Smith, Patricia, Big Town, Big Talk, (Zoland Books), 2002
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Smith, Patricia, Blood Dazzler, (Coffee House Press), 2008
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Smith, Patricia, Close To Death, (Zoland Books), 1998
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Smith, Patricia, Life According To Motown, (Tia Chucha Press), 1991
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Smith, Patricia, Teahouse of the Almighty, (Coffee House Press), 2006
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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
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Stewart, Marydale, Inheritance, (The Puddin'head Press), 2008
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Swinford-Wasum, Adam, Seeing My Mother Off and Other Poems, (NVCAP), 2003
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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),
Trigilio, Tony, The Llama's English Lesson, (Three Candles Press), 2006
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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
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Two-Rivers, E. Donald, A Dozen Cold Ones, (March Abrazo),
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Two-Rivers, E. Donald, Pow Wows, Fat Cats, And Other Indian Tales, (Mammoth Publications), 2003
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Tyler, Lawrence, Prophecies, (The Puddin'head Press), 1990
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Verela, Frank, Bitter Coffee, (MARCH/Abrazo), 2001
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Vertreace, Martha M., Cinnabar, (Flume Press), 1995
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Vertreace, Martha M., Dragon Lady: Tsukimi, (Riverstone), 1999
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Vertreace, Martha M., Glacier Fire, (Word Press), 2004
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Vertreace, Martha M., Light Caught Bending, (Diehard Publishing), 1995
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Vertreace, Martha M., Maafa: When Night Becomes A Lion, (Ion Books), 1996
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Vertreace, Martha M., Oracle Bones, (White Eagle Coffee Store Press), 1998
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Vertreace, Martha M., Second House From The Corner, (Kennedy-King College), 1986
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Vertreace, Martha M., Second Mourning, (Diehard Publishers), 1998
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Vertreace, Martha M., Smokeless Flame, (Firth Press), 1998
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Vitkauskas, Lina Ramona, Shooting Dead Films With Poets, (Fractal Edge Press), 2004
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Vogel, Constance, Caged Birds, (Lake Shore Publishing), 1994
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Vogel, Constance, The Mulberry, (Finishing Line Press), 2004
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Warr, Michael, You Are The Black Boy, (Tia Chucha Press),
Winfield, Larry, Erzuli, ( ),
Winfield, Larry, Rosedust, (12.23 Press), 1999
Winters, Eileen M., On The Streets of Chicago, ( ),
YCA, "Untitled" & Other poetic works with names, (YCA), 1998
Young, Steven & Parisi, editors, The Poetry Anthology (1912-2002), (Ivan R. Dee), 2002
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Anthology, Emergency Tacos (MARCH/Abrazo)
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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
Badikian, Beatriz, Old Gloves, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
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Boone, Robert, Hack, (Highland Press), 1978
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Boone, Robert, Inside Job, (The Puddin'head Press), 2003
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Brooks, Gwendolyn, Maud Martha, (Third World Press), 1992
Cisneros, Sandra, The House on Mango Street, (Arte Publico Press),
Greenberg-Bywater, Arielle, & Zucker, Women Poets on Mentorship, Efforts and Affections
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Helgeson, Jeff, Thresholds, (The Puddin'head Press and Collage Press), 1999
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Huebner, Jeff, Murals: The Great Works of Joliet, (Friends of Community Public Art), 2001
Hullinger, Louise Liffengren, Next Year Country, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Knott, Bill, & Tate, Lucky Darryl, (Release Press), 1977
Logan, John, Tom Savage: A Boy of Early Virginia, (Encyclopedia Britannica Press), 1962
McCarrell, Stuart, Bettina, (Xenia Press), 1992
McCarrell, Stuart, Charlotte, (Xenia Press), 1992
McCarrell, Stuart, Christiane, (Xenia Press), 1992
McCarrell, Stuart, Faust, (Xenia Press), 1992
McCarrell, Stuart, Lili, (Xenia Press), 1993
McCarrell, Stuart, Other Summer (Emily Dickinson), (Xenia Press), 1995
Monroe, Harriet, John Wilborn Root-A Memoir, (), 1896
Monroe, Harriet, Poets and Their Art, (), 1926
Parisi, Joseph & Young, Between The Lines: A History Of Poetry in Letters, (Ivan R. Dee), 2006
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Sandburg, Carl, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 1939
Sandburg, Carl, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume 1, 1926
Sandburg, Carl, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume 2, 1926
Sandburg, Carl, Lincoln Collector, 1948
Sandburg, Carl, Potato Face, 1930
Sandburg, Carl, The American Songbag, 1927
Sandburg, Carl, The Chicago Race Riots, 1919
Sandburg, Carl, Rootabaga Pigeons, 1923
Sandburg, Carl, Rootabaga Stories, 1922
Sandburg, Carl, Storm Over The Land, 1942
Spelius, Carol, How We Got There From Here, (Lake Shore Publishing),
Tate, James, & Knott, Lucky Darryl, (Release Press), 1977
Trigilio, Tony, Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics, (SIU Press), 2007
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Trigilio, Tony, Strange Prophecies Anew: Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg, (Fairleigh Dickson U Press), 2001
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Young, Stephen & Parisi, Between The Lines: A History Of Poetry in Letters, (Ivan R. Dee), 2006
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Zucker, Rachel, & Greenberg-Bywater, Women Poets on Mentorship, Efforts and Affections
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