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For Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School's Spoken Word Club, there is one phrase that reigns supreme: Respect the Mic. It's been the club's call to arms since its inception in 1999. As its founder Peter Kahn says, "It's a call of pride and history and tradition and hope." This vivid new collection of poetry and prose - curated by award-winning and bestselling poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Peter Kahn, and Dan "Sully" Sullivan - illuminates just that, uplifting the incredible legacy this community has cultivated.

He woke up that morning with a price on his head. Those Lincoln Continental Jersey boys wanted to see him dead. Out of options, out of hope, his only chance was to run. He ran from the mob, he ran from the FBI, and he ran away from the only woman he had ever loved. In the shadows of the collapsing World Trade Center towers, Charles ran for his life, not stopping until he found refuge on the Big Sky Ranch in Montana's Flathead Valley. There he would be safe, hidden, but he knew he couldn't leave his wife behind.

Warum es sich lohnt, auch mal auf das Erreichte zurückzuschauen, statt stets neue Ziel zu setzen. Wenn man das Beste aus sich herausholen möchte, ist es sinnvoll, sich Ziele zu setzen – diese sind schließlich der Schlüssel zu lang anhaltender Motivation. Doch wenn man immer nur auf die noch zu bewältigende Strecke, den Gap, schaut, führt dies irgendwann unweigerlich zu Unzufriedenheit. Wie soll man auch die eigene Leistung würdigen, wenn man immer hinterherläuft?