Stray Bullets: A Celebration of Chicago Saloon Poetry

CHICAGO, the city where the likes of Carl Sandburg, Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks and Studs Terkel have found the stuff of poetry, stories, and oral histories. Chicago, the city where out bars, cafes, blues and jazz clubs come the cadences of the spoken word, poetry afraid of nothing, like stray bullets in the dark.

It's proof that Chicago is at the heart of a literary awakening in America-from the street level on up.