Tarnynon Onumonu is a South Side poet who hopes to facilitate positive change for others through autobiographical artistic expression. She’s currently the poet in residence at the Chicago Poetry Society. This is what her Chicago sounds like.
Northwestern's "A Site of Struggle" takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical.