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Save The Date
2010 Every Person Is a Philosopher Annual Benefit
May 26th, 5:30 - 8:00pm
A dialogue between critically-acclaimed novelist and poet Achy Obejas and a personality from Chicago Public Radio, as well as our own acclaimed JOT writers.

I’M FROM
an excerpt

I’m from WTTW Channel 11.
Mr. Rogers was my
pixilated stepfather
and I learned
patience from the pledge
drives.

I’m from home
grown tomatoes.
Plump slices
on a white porcelain plate
offered themselves up
like the juiciest steaks.

Erin Moore
Albany Park Branch Library

The Neighborhood Writing Alliance (NWA) provokes dialogue and promotes change by creating opportunities for adults in low-income Chicago neighborhoods to write, publish, and perform works about their lives. These works are published in the award-winning Journal of Ordinary Thought.