Stephen Lyons

I was molded by the greatest city in America. Circling a model of the city in the Chicago Legends video were …

In the early 1970s, when the Vietnam War was still raging and I was 16 years old, I attended a Phil Ochs conc…

On State Street, just past the Wig Center-its window filled with plastic heads of Afros and page boys-I begin…

by Stephen J. Lyons Years ago I lived in Tucson's Skid Row. That is where I met Frank. At the time I drove an…

by Stephen J. Lyons Years ago I lived in Tucson's Skid Row. That is where I met Frank. At the time I drove an…

By Stephen J. Lyons I found the following untitled poem while picking up trash in the city park near the picn…

By Stephen J. Lyons I found the following untitled poem while picking up trash in the city park near the picn…

At the POP Montreal headquarters in the heart of Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood, it's easy to get…

The unrelenting onslaught of pre-Christmas ads to pressure me into buying stuff I do not need came weeks befo…

The unrelenting onslaught of pre-Christmas ads to pressure me into buying stuff I do not need came weeks befo…

The unrelenting onslaught of pre-Christmas ads to pressure me into buying stuff I do not need came weeks befo…

How the writer did not measure up in rugged Alaska.

When I was in second grade, my father left our family to begin another one with a new wife. For a while my fa…

When I was in second grade, my father left our family to begin another one with a new wife. For a while my fa…

When I was in second grade, my father left our family to begin another one with a new wife. For a while my fa…

In 1990, at the wide-eyed, impressionable age of 18, Jeffrey Gettleman traveled to East Africa. The young col…

In 1990, at the wide-eyed, impressionable age of 18, Jeffrey Gettleman traveled to East Africa. The young col…

In 1990, at the wide-eyed, impressionable age of 18, Jeffrey Gettleman traveled to East Africa. The young col…

In 1990, at the wide-eyed, impressionable age of 18, Jeffrey Gettleman traveled to East Africa. The young col…

The Ethiopian cabbie's first question to me when I climb into the back seat to head over to Toronto's Junctio…

It was the first Thanksgiving that Mom was a widow. Instead of the traditional meal of home-cooked turkey and…

by Stephen J. Lyons Years ago I lived in Tucson's Skid Row. That is where I met Frank. At the time I drove an…

by Stephen J. Lyons Years ago I lived in Tucson's Skid Row. That is where I met Frank. At the time I drove an…

Desiccated chicken legs under the chairs. Piles of twisted accordion-shaped pop cans. Coffee can of shotgun s…