Fatimah Asghar (poet and filmmaker): Pet by Akwaeke Emezi, Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman, 1919 by Eve L. Ewing, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
John Corbett (writer, record producer, and gallery owner): Tell Them of Battles, Kings, & Elephants by Mathias Énard, Keith Rowe: The Room Extended by Brian Olewnick, Ideal Suggestions: Essays on Divinatory Poetics by Selah Saterstrom, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh, Songs for Schizoid Siblings by Lionel Ziprin
Nate Marshall (poet and educator): The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan, 1919 by Eve L. Ewing, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr, An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz, We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Bill Savage (professor at Northwestern University): American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes, Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks by Ron Rapoport, The World is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood by Carlo Rotella
