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Be sure to consider the audience. This is a book about American universities. Try to have something in the cover to reflect that and give off a college feel. This can be done by using a college setting or a college building, etc. Bonus points if you add a Midwestern feel to it. Such as adding snow or a map of the Midwest, anything like that. Every school has a different feel to it, therefore the poems are extremely diverse. In all, there are 100 poems celebrating 100 Midwestern Universities. Here I am sharing the first two poems of the book. If anyone would like additional information, such as a list of some of the schools in the book, feel free to ask. I hope this helps.

*Chicago*

Inquiring minds want to know:

What is behind this city of wind, towers, and freight?

This freeway of sweat. The Ivy Terrace above Make.

Then the question shifts to who are behind it?

Is it the Michael Jordans? Champions who have defied time and gravity to unceasingly expand the earth with their flight? Is it weavers of words? Entertainers and messengers like Cooke, Kelly, West, and Winfrey? Is it pizza makers? The butchers and architects?  

Is it Gangsters like Al Capone? 

Or is it Maroons like Eliot Ness?

Maroons inside Gordon Center research, debate,

then prepare to create—

Just as knowledge grows more and more, 

“So be human life enriched.”

It’s the reward of discovery, not the notoriety—

That makes the student rich.

As the leading institution of the Midwest,

It is our duty to share our wealth,

Found in this privileged soil of Chicago,

Knowledge uplifted to help the nation grow. 

Each morning they rise from the ashes and disperse into the campus that works. A scavenger hunt for stats, facts, and artifacts—a measure that starts and closes at Cobb Gate. The quadrangle nests the informed and the learned, with questers who leave no gothic stone unturned. They feed at Hutch Commons on pieces and scraps adapting masked knowledge to a 

Smart Museum of Art.

They occupy 400,000 square feet of science to reinvent and shape this city’s intellectual gem.

And like the Chi-Press & Elliot Ness—

This Jewel of the Midwest remains untouchable.

*The University of Illinois at Springfield*

Twoscore and four years ago,

In this, 

Our State’s Capital,

This university was created for our sons of the freedom

our forefathers fought so heroically to pass down. 

The very same freedom that has been embedded in the foundation of this house, adjacent the pillars of integrity, honesty, and 

Equality for all women and men…

With a belief that every man and woman should thrive to be so great, that even the most judicious of men should question this—the most absolute law. 

For what is a nation without constituents who continue to dispute history’s limitations of man? Lost stars that we all must break from nature’s bondage,

so that as servants of the links to freedom, 

We may chase the vast glory that waits in the prairie.