The Chicago Culture Issue
ISBN 0-9719742-0-9
ISSN 1540-3130
8 x 10 perfect bound
164 pages
The issue contains a limited edition CD from Midnight Mind/Aware Records. The CD features two songs from five Chicago bands.
Coming online soon:
– An article in the Chicago Reader regarding Midnight Mind Number Four.
– Photos from the Schuba’s release party (11-13-02).
– Photos from the release party at Quimby’s
– Photos from the release party at Barbara’s Bookstore
– Read Seven Questions with David Starkey
– Read Seven Questions with Tim Kahl
Charles Baxter’s Chicago Memories
Things overheard in Grant Park — An observational poem by Tom Short
View: Chicago by William D. Moser
James “Super Chikan” Johnson and Robert “Bilbo” Walker at Rosa’s Blues Lounge by Charles K. Cowdery
Walter Kirn’s Chicago Memories
Mark Bowden’s Chicago Memories
DuSable Park — A story told in plates by Martin Gantman
Tim Dorsey’s Chicago Memories
Chicago Issue #3 — The New Music of Chicago
Chicago Candy Counter Culture: A Report by Leigh Adams
POETRY
The Poem “Chicago Bound” by Susan Terris
Poetry by Deborah Schakel
The Monet Exhibit — Chicago
On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt – 1868
Poetry by by Ryan G. Van Cleave
Dear Carl Sandburg
The Chicago Swinger with Repressed Emotional Trauma from his Childhood
Suddenly Realizes He Needs Viagra (with apologies to A.R. Ammons)
The poem “Outside the Loop” by Marion Boyer
The poem “Lunt Street in July” by David Starkey
The poem “Chicago Welfare Department” by David Ray
The poem “Look Under ‘Minnows’ in the Kinsey Report” by Tim Kahl
FICTION & NON-FICTION
The Street Corner by Vanitha Sankaran
Mission of Burma Broke My Heart, Prologue
Mission of Burma Broke My Heart, Part One
Mission of Burma Broke My Heart, Part Two
Mission of Burma Broke My Heart, Part Three
Mission of Burma Broke My Heart, Part Four
by Andy Eley
Gangway: The Space between Two Houses by Eileen Favorite
Touching Picasso by Kathryn Hughes
Back to Normal (A Discursive Essay with Excursions and Digressions) by Kathleen Kirk
The Definition of Far by Alissa Schwarz
Even the Dead Vote Here by Ben Tanzer
PHOTOGRAPHY
The Photography of Robert Klein Engler
JOURNAL ENTRIES
Editor’s note
Letters & Emails
Ten things of note
In praise of . . .
Things we have learned since the last issue
Mistakes we made in the last issue
Possible Taglines for Midnight Mind Magazine
Overlooked art: Match Booklets
Aspects of Culture
Book Reviews
Michael Connelly’s Chasing the Dime
Olivia Diamond’s The Pluperfect Phantom
Gabe Hudson’s Dear Mr. President
Richard Russo’s The Whore’s Child and Other Stories
CD information: The CD comes with the purchase of Midnight Mind Number Four and is packaged into the back of the issue. It features songs from the following Chicago bands:
Verbow
Julie Korman
Exo
Starch Martins
Giant Step