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Neighborhood Writing

Where I'm From Neighborhood Writing Alliance

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  • ABOUT Glenda Zahra Baker

    Glenda Zahra Baker is an acclaimed vocalist, musician, performer, and teacher. For the past 13 years she and storyteller Emily Hooper Lansana have collaborated as In the Spirit, weaving stories, songs, rhythms, role-plays, chants, and poetry into interactive lessons on black history. Baker has also worked with the ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Old Town School of Folk Music, Ravinia Festival, Albany Park Theater, and Chicago Public Schools.

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  • ABOUT Neighborhood Writing Alliance

    Founded in 1996, the Neighborhood Writing Alliance runs eight to twelve free weekly writing workshops for adults in low-income neighborhoods throughout Chicago. The organization also publishes selected pieces from those workshops in its award-winning quarterly, The Journal of Ordinary Thought, and present the writers and their work in more than thirty events each year. Profile
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The Neighborhood Writing Alliance, publisher of The Journal of Ordinary Thought, facilitates opportunities for adults in low-income Chicago neighborhoods to write, publish, and perform works about their lives. This is your chance to hear their vivid, original, and thought-provoking stories about laughter and humor across Chicago. Performer and vocalist Glenda Zahra Baker directs accompanying percussion, song, and movement.

Above: Performance by the Neighborhood Writing Alliance at the 2009 Chicago Humanities Festival.

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Chicago, laughter, childhood, urban folk stories

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Author Interview Jonathan Lethem with Victoria Lautman

Novelist Jonathan Lethem discusses Chronic City and chronicling Gen X angst with interviewer Victoria Lautman, host and producer of WFMT’s Writers on the Record.

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Michael Salinger: Well-Defined An Irreverent Poke at Vocabulary Definitions

Michael Salinger delivers his playful poems and discusses his work on stage and in the classroom as a literary advocate and poetry champion.

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