Electric Arches. Then he became Yi-Fen Chou", "First-ever Chicago Poetry Block Party offers live performances, music in Bronzeville", "Willis-Abdurraqib to speak at COA commencement – Mount Desert Islander", "Everyday Magic in Eve Ewing's 'Electric Arches, "34 Poets Of Color Summarize 2017 In Verse", "How sociologist and poet Eve Ewing uses fiction to study race and education", "The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2017", "Staff Picks: Eve Ewing, Giudo Morselli, Hernan Diaz", "Here Are the Winners of the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Awards", "Winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award", "Eve L. Ewing to write new comic for Marvel's young hero Ironheart", "Books of 2019: 11 notable Chicago reads", "The Poetry Shortlist for the 2019 Chicago Review of Books Award", "Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of Summer", "In Kansas City, a lesson in transforming closed schools", "Nonfiction Book Review: Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing. In tandem with the transition to handwriting, the story takes a turn into the magical. Her book on school closures, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, was released in October 2018 University of Chicago Press. [5], Ewing serves on the editorial board for In These Times,[19] as co-director of arts organization Crescendo Literary,[20][21] and as co-founder of the Echo Hotel poetry collective with Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. One example of this are the three “re-telling” narrative prose poems that deal with racism of the toxically everyday and systemic kind. '"[27] Writing in the Pacific Standard, Elizabeth King described Electric Arches as "at once a portrait of [Ewing's Chicago] home, a tender letter to black youth, and a call to her audience to think beyond the confines of systemic racism. [44] Her installation "A Map Home" explored place and childhood exploration. [24] Ewing has stated the entire book is based on real incidents that have happened to her. "[28] The book won a 2018 Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association, the Chicago Review of Books 2017 poetry award, and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award.[29][30][31]. Her academic research in the sociology of education includes the 2018 book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, a study of school closures in Chicago. ", "Episode 36: What It Means to Lose a School", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eve_Ewing&oldid=979988715#Electric_Arches, Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.