The Poetry Foundation announces the 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows: Bhion Achimba, Roda Avelar, Ariana Benson, Chrysanthemum, and Willie Lee Kinard III.
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.
At Printers Row Lit Fest on September 10 at 1:30 p.m. CT, host Brett Chase will be joined by guests Cheryl Johnson, Tarnynon Onumonu and Luis Carranza to pay homage to Hazel Johnson’s life and legacy.