Notable Guests
- Edward Auer, International Chopin Piano Competition pianist
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize poet
- Peter Brötzmann, free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
- David Cromer, MacArthur Fellows Program director
- John Cusack, actor and film producer
- Chuck D, rapper and author
- Stuart Dybek, MacArthur Fellows Program author
- Kurt Elling, jazz vocalist
- Von Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist
- Aleksander Hemon, MacArthur Fellows Program author
- Malalai Joya, politician
- Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize musician
- Yuri Lane, beatboxer
- Haki Madhubuti, author
- Sara Paretsky, author
- Jeremy Piven, actor and film producer
- Luis J. Rodriguez, poet
- Art Shay, photographer
- Marc Smith, 60 Minutes creator, founder Poetry Slam movement
- Zadie Smith, TIME Magazine novelist (100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005)
- Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize author
- Bronisław Wildstein, journalist
- Adam Zagajewski, poet
- Howard Zinn, historian, author and activist
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