Three Generations in the 70’s: Memoir of a Chicago Po-Renaissance

We noticed that Bob Holman’s 1997 memoir of several generations of poets cooking up their potent poetic brews in the cauldron of Chicago in the 1970’s was showing up among our most-often-read past articles -- so we updated it for you with brand-new links & book-browsing lists. The first two generations of Chicago Po-Renaissance poets have had a far-reaching influence on American poetry since the 1970’s: Paul Carroll, Andrei Codrescu, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Bill Knott.... Many of the later generations moved from Chicago to Iowa or San Francisco or New York and remain generative poetic forces: Richard Friedman, Darlene Pearlstein, Bob Rosenthal, Shelley Kraut, Peter Kostakis, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Hoover, Allan and Cinda Kornblum, Terry Jacobus... But life in Chicago is still rich with poetic movers & shakers: Marc Smith, Jean Howard, Kurt Heintz, Lisa Buscani, Cin Salach, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind...