“Mouths From the South:
A black poetry slam finds an unlikely home”
By Benjamin Ortiz, for “Our Town” in the Chicago Reader
August 28, 1997
Category: Features
“Poetic Justice:
No performance without representation!”
By Benjamin Ortiz, for “Our Town” in the Chicago Reader
January 08, 1998
“Reading Out:
D-Knowledge pushes poetry into the light”
By Benjamin Ortiz, for the Chicago Reader Calendar Section
January 29, 1998
“Young Poets Society:
The students in Sandra Cap’s class use what they’ve read to write about their own realities”
By Benjamin Ortiz, for “Our Town” in the Chicago Reader
February 12, 1998
“Colombian Exposition”
By Benjamin Ortiz, for Café Latino Lifestyle Magazine
February/March 2010
“Making It Personal”
By Benjamin Ortiz, for Café Latino Lifestyle Magazine
February/March 2010
“Christmas, the Acculturated Way”
By Benjamin Ortiz, for Café Latino Lifestyle Magazine
November/December 2009
Feature and sidebar:
“Live rock, warts and all:
Catch local bands as they get their shot onstage and on camera with ‘E > N > E Chicago Rocks'”
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Chicago Tribune
Section: On the Town
Date: November 6, 2009
“2012: The End or a New Dawn?”
By Benjamin Ortiz, for Café Latino Lifestyle Magazine
September/October 2009
“Humboldt Park Nouveau-Rican”
By Benjamin Ortiz, for Café Latino Lifestyle Magazine
May/June 2009