Emma Morris

We have know your rights and Migra Watch literature in English and Spanish at the store 7 days a week. We’re open M-F 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm and have water, a public restroom, and climate control.

Donate to Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund, organized by Maria Orozco Support Chicago’s Street Vendors We are the Street Vendors Association of Chicago… Maria Orozco needs your support for Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund

Just donated here. Gotta support our street vendors while their own government terrorizes them.
www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st...

A ROSE SHOULDERS UP

Don't ever be surprised
to see a rose shoulder up
among the ruins of the house:
This is how we survived.

by Mosab Abu Toha

Check out this new teaching resource/essay I worked on that’s finally published! www.analulopez.com/exploring-th...

Three Field Notes notebooks lined up to showcase floral designs.

A floral palate cleanser. My designs for Field Notes’ fall flowers edition, inspired by publishers bindings. Thanks, librarians!

masked and armed men marching in camo with badges that say "Border Patrol" and "Police" in front of a sunny Chicago building that is recognizable as the Newberry Library

marching in front of the Newberry Library, shamelessly hospitable to people who really love genealogical research and Renaissance partbooks & like there's a park across the street that people just hang out in and the El is super scary b/c like everyone takes it www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/i...

Building a living, Black literary archive - Chicago Reader Celebrating their 58th anniversary this month, Third World Press Foundation seeks to inspire a new generation to build upon the radical roots of its founding.

Third World Press Foundation and the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection build upon the legacy of Chicago’s south side as “a hub of Black creativity, scholarship, and political imagination.” https://bit.ly/3Kulyol

Chicago! I'll be at Roman Susan at 1224 W. Loyola Ave this Sunday, 9/28 from 1-5 PM with a full table of Public Collectors publications for sale. Others will join me in presenting their publications too. It should be a wonderful day. Hope to see you!

Pink background with white text about applying for funding from the BSA for a book-related events by 3 November.

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🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨

📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

The devaluing of infrastructural labor all kinds, the ceding of the ground of human truth to machines, its definitely part of it.

A stack of ENEMY OF THE SUN displayed in the bookstore next to a broadside of the poem "Enemy of the Sun"

Happy pub day ENEMY OF THE SUN, the reissue of the iconic 1970 collection of Palestinian poetry originally published by Drum & Spear (the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). Great work, @sevenstories.bsky.social!
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/kJGRmM40Tbc2Acap_id6Nw

I've said it before but people in the future are going to have a better understanding of the 17th-19th centuries than the 20th-21st centuries. Why? PAPER [the most durable technology invented by humans]

📚 Registration for Fall adult education classes at the Newberry Library is open! So many rad classes to choose from. Many are virtual! 📚

www.newberry.org/learn/adult-...

RBMS Mentoring Program The Mentoring Program, administered by the Membership and Professional Development Committee, is designed to facilitate communication between RBMS members and to support their professional developm…

I attended a talk from a museum professional last night who praised librarians for their organized systems of mentorship for new members of the profession.
RBMS is in need of new mentors! THAT MEANS YOU. Invest the time to make that praise true! 📜
rbms.info/committees/m...

Raise your ✋ if you believe libraries are for everyone!

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Are you a journalist, podcaster, producer or someone else who covers books?

Would you like an advance copy of my book on the Jewish labor Bund

Email your address and a bit about what you do to molly@mollycrabapple.com

Typed black text in all caps on an orange slip of paper that reads: "Please leave in book. Due Date [blank]. [Image of a bold exclamation mark within a circle]. Important Notice Please Read. This item belongs to another library. For your protection please avoid: highlighting, writing, underlining, pencil marking, pen marking, spilling, staining, dog earring pages, ripping. Doing so may incur fines from the lending library."

Yep, still library week.

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists, or get in touch via email chicagojournalists@protonmail.com.

There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt @haymarketbooks.org

#poetry #transpoetry

The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU is BACK! With old friends and new laureates, mathematicians and performance artists, we are here to demand, to insist, that poetry is a living thing! (See the following posts for a complete rundown of events)

The Hotwife of Hyde Park (demos), by David Safran 15 track album

davidsafran.bandcamp.com/album/the-ho... :)

An old time-y illustration of a Lemons.

Today is Sextidi the 16th of Fructidor in the year 233.
Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness.
Today we celebrate lemons. #JacobinDay

More information on lemons

The musical that kinda almost was.

Vegetables woodblock print by Japanese artist Utagawa Shigenobu, 1866.

This and other books are available from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social. All proceeds from the following titles go to The Sameer Project: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

With health agencies collapsing, it's never been more important for all of us to play active roles in protecting each other's health.

A couple of easy things you can do:
1️⃣ Wear a well-fitting mask and distribute them to others
2️⃣ Spread word about updated vaccines and help others make appointments

A black, red and green flyer with a happy bug in the center for ZineMercado created by CHema Skandal! for the event on Sunday, August 31st, 2025, 11 AM - 6 PM at Hairpin Arts Center, 2810 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60618.

Chicago! I'll be repping Temporary Services / Half Letter Press at ZineMercado on Sunday, August 31st, 2025, 11 AM - 6 PM at Hairpin Arts Center, 2810 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60618. I'll have recent Public Collectors publications too, including a brand new set of Morning Walks booklets. Come!

The Newberry Writing Contemporar Fairy Tales Taught by Anca L. Szilagyi Tuesdays, 9/30-10/21 6-7:30 pm Virtual 4 Sessions There is a sweet vintage drawing of fairy with a green and yellow plant hat and green and yellow outfit crouched in profile apparently counting leaves.

I'm happy to teach Writing Contemporary Fairy Tales for The Newberry Library this fall. Class runs Tuesday evenings, 9/30-10/21 and registration is open: www.newberry.org/calendar/wri...