Writing

Eve Ewing is an essayist and poet. Currently, she is an editor and staff writer for Seven Scribes. Her work has appeared in venues such as Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Union Station, the anthology The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and many other outlets. Currently, she is an editor and staff writer for Seven Scribes. Eve is proud to be one-half of the poetry duo Echo Hotel, alongside Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. Formerly, she has served as managing editor for Kinfolks: a journal of black expression, and an editor and co-chair of the Harvard Educational Review. She is also an organizer of the Louder Than A Bomb Massachusetts youth poetry slam. She has been a nominee for the Pushcart Prize, a recipient of a scholarship from the New Harmony Writers Workshop, and a semi-finalist for the Pamet River Prize.

Essays & Articles

• "We Shall Not Be Moved": A Hunger Strike, Education, and Housing in Chicago // The New Yorker 
• Phantoms Playing Double-Dutch: Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing // Seven Scribes
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Black Jesus: A Lyric Essay // Seven Scribes
• RT if You Believe in Post-Modernism // Seven Scribes
• In Defense of the Public // In These Times
• Dinner with Dale: An afternoon in the company of South Side Artists // Chicago Weekly
• Misadventures in America: The Chronicles of Keith Knight // Say What Magazine

Poems

• "why you cannot touch my hair" // HEArt [includes audio]
• "to the guest critic in my studio art course who said my work looked like graffiti" // The Collapsar
• "excerpts from an interview with Metta World Peace aka Ron Artest aka the Pandas Friend" // The Collapsar
• "to the notebook kid" // Poetry [also appears in The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop]
• "Peach Trees and Gasoline: An Obituary" // Union Station
• "what was found when the Ewing children left home, 1964 – 1993" // Union Station
• "Requiem for Fifth Period and the Things that Went on Then" // Bird's Thumb [includes audio]
• "how i arrived" // Blackberry
• "Essaouira" // Blackberry
• "Rules" // Blackberry

Blog Posts

• Talking to Black Teens about Baltimore // Black Youth Project
• CPS Suspensions: Breaking the Cycle // A Just Chicago