Madeleine

  1. NWA Wench Virtual Book Club, Part 2
  2. “The opportunity to express myself in a safe environment”: Meet the Philosophers with Barbara Banks
  3. Raw Voices Recap
  4. JOT Celebrates Mother’s Day
  5. The NWA Virtual Wench Book Club, Part One!
  6. When you participate in JOT, you participate in American grassroots democracy”: Meet the Philosophers with Larry Ambrose
  7. “I Believed Every Word,” JOT Winter 2012 Release Reading Recap
  8. The Ballad of Joseph Laroche: Guest post by NWA Writer Sharon F. Warner
  9. A Dispatch from the Odyssey Project: Guest Post by Sylvia Taylor
  10. Live Blog From Raw Voices Conference
  11. The Missing Project Workshop Recap
  12. On the Front Porch with “A Different Trip”
  13. Earth Day and “Along the Shores of the Acidic River”
  14. Urban Legends and Sexual Assault
  15. “I believed every word”: On the Front Porch with “Soup Anyone?” by Barbara Banks
  16. Urban Legends and Humor
  17. Sometimes You Need a Little Folklore to Enforce the Rules: JOT Writers Define Urban Legends
  18. Defend Our Libraries! The Chicago People’s Library Movement celebrates National Library Week this Saturday
  19. On the front porch with “Relentlessly Pursue It” by Baba Tony Brown
  20. “Finishing does not have to be a daunting task”: Meet the Philosophers with NWA Writer Zena Babette
  21. Faith and a Flower
  22. Stop. Drop. Move On.
  23. The False Death of the Peace Movement
  24. “You can’t imagine how fun that was”: On the front porch with “Airplanes”
  25. Performance Poetry: A Guest Post by David Nekimken
  26. “It’s been so long I forgot my name”: On the front porch with “Homeless”
  27. “I learn not to be afraid of what I might find”: Meet the Philosophers with Tinamaria Penn
  28. Back At It…with NWA Intern Linley Thomas
  29. “The heights where goddesses thrive:” Celebrating International Women’s Day with JOT writing
  30. On the Front Porch with “…too many dates”
  31. Celebrating 175 Years of Chicago the NWA Way
  32. “I have an egg of ideas in my stomach:” Meet the Philosophers with Mayi Ojisua
  33. Tagging the City: A Guest Post from NWA Intern Krystin Gollihue
  34. On the Front Porch with “Unneeded Motherland”
  35. Meet the Philosophers with Dee Johnson, Emerging Artist
  36. On the front porch with “The Saddest Thing I Owned”
  37. Freedom as a Verb: One Evening with the Chicago Bee Workshop
  38. “There are stories that need to be heard” Meet the Philosophers with Veronda
  39. On the Front Porch at our “Favorite Time of Day”
  40. On the Front Porch: Standing with Home Health Care Workers
  41. Save Chicago Libraries Call-in Day!
  42. LGBTQ Affirmative Poetry at NWA’s Workshop Leader Training Retreat
  43. “I believe that we should write our own histories”: On the Front Porch with “Our Story”
  44. Writing with total exuberance: Meet the Philosophers with Glodean Champion
  45. Personal Freedom Writing Prompt
  46. On the Front Porch with “Classically Free”
  47. “Writing can be the art of collaboration,” Meet the Philosophers with Allen McNair
  48. Radical Vulnerability Workshop Recap
  49. “Young Googlestein” and Freedom of the Internet
  50. Theme Launch: Liberation and Freedom!
  51. What Hall Branch Library Means to Me by Doris Arrington
  52. On the Front Porch with “To Give List”
  53. Happy New Year!
  54. “A Great Big Kiss!”: On the Front Porch with “Attachment!”
  55. “You’re Angry. Me too.” – Protest in 2011
  56. Meet the Philosophers: Cristina Rutter
  57. “Whether things are good or bad”: On the Front Porch with “Momma: In Her Purest Form”
  58. The Microphone in the Audience: NWA Audio Intern Gabriel Recaps “If These Blocks Could Talk”
  59. “I Am Here” Release Reading Recap
  60. On the Front Porch with “Drums” by Charlene K. Smith
  61. Every Person is a Photographer
  62. “I Am Here” Release Reading TONIGHT!
  63. “They hardly know I am here”: On the Front Porch with “The Beach in Six Views”
  64. Workshop Profile: Mabel Manning Branch Library Writing Workshop
  65. If These Blocks Could Talk: The Stories I Heard Them Say
  66. Thanksgiving From All Angles
  67. On the Front Porch with “Thanksgiving Dinner at My Apartment”
  68. “I have always been eclectic”: Meet the Philosophers with Sylvia Taylor
  69. Internship Update, guest post by amazing intern Linley Thomas!
  70. On the Front Porch with “The Sixties (1960-1970)”
  71. Disability in Chicago, Part 2: Isolation and Disability
  72. Home Cures: On the Front Porch with “Warm 7-UP”
  73. Ol’ 47th Street: Guest post by CCAP/NWA intern Jeff Jackson
  74. November is National Novel Writing Month!
  75. “After the Celebration” on the Front Porch three years later
  76. “Impact used as a verb is widely considered a solecism”: Meet the Philosophers with Theresa Rothschadl
  77. A Visit to Graceland Cemetery
  78. A Year of Community Partners
  79. “Drink, My Daughter”
  80. It Makes Sense that I Can Touch History: Meet the Philosophers with Anna
  81. Occupy Chicago
  82. On the Front Porch: Why I Like Chicago
  83. Meet the Philosophers: Mark Kaplan, Bezazian Branch Library Manager
  84. Taking Hyper-local to the Next Level at the Block by Block Conference
  85. World Teachers’ Day: Students Test Us
  86. Getting Ready for Banned Books Week
  87. I Can Change ( + Release Reading TONIGHT)