Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.

Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, artist, and educator from Chicago. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic, and many other venues. She is a sociologist at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.

true stories

Arrival Day
the first time [a re-telling]
The Device
four boys on Ellis [a re-telling]
Sestina with Matthew Henson's Fur Suit
true stories about Koko Taylor
another time [a re-telling]
Note from LeBron James to LeBron James
Excerpts from an interview with Ron Artest
how i arrived

oil and water

Shea Butter Manifesto
why you cannot touch my hair
appletree [on blackwomanhood, from and to Erykah Badu]
what I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knife
To Stacey, as you were
Ode to Luster's Pink Oil
one thousand and one ways to touch your own face
to the notebook kid
Thursday Morning, Newbury Street

letters from the flat lands

On Prince
Origin Story
fragment
Sonnet
Chicago is a chorus of barking dogs
at the salon
montage in a car
The Discount Mega Mall (In Memoriam)
I come from the fire city
Hood Run
One Good Time for Marilyn Mosby
Columbus Hospital
What I Talk About When I Talk About Black Jesus
at work with my father
Fullerton Avenue
Requiem for Fifth Period and the Things That Went On Then
untitled anti-elegy
I wish for them a mundane life
Affirmation