CHICAGO POEMS: POETRY VIDEO consists of 20 short videos, all on characters and places associated with Chicago. Each video is based on a poem read by the author as he celebrates the sights, sounds, and sensations of Chicago, ranging from pizza to Michael Jordan to Al Capone.
The DVD is forty minutes:
Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza
Otis Spann's South Side Piano
Demon Dogs
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
The Water Tower
Soldier Field
Buckingham Fountain
Lincoln Park
Michael Jordan
Introit
Dick Butkus
The Roma Restaurant
The Art Institute
Hyde Park
Carl Sandburg,1878-1967
Richard J. Daley
Frank Lloyd Wright
Four Chicago Windy City Songs
Al Capone - for Wind
Four Chicago Bus Stops: haiku
About the Author
Robert Kirschten, PhD, is the author of James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy of Earth: A Reading of the Poems;“Approaching Prayer”: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A.R. Ammons and James Dickey; and five books of poems, Old Family Movies, Nighthawks and Irises: Poems about Paintings, Chicago Poems, Looney Tunes: A Comic Book of Poems, and Fribble and Wheeze: a post postmodern Book of Poems.
Kirschten is the editor of Critical Essays on James Dickey, “Struggling for Wings”: The Art of James Dickey, James Dickey: The Selected Poems, and Critical Essays on A.R. Ammons.
He is Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing
at Prairie View A&M University.
