Growing Concerns Poetry Collective

:: NEW ALBUM ::

BIG DARK BRIGHT FUTURES

NOW AVAILABLE ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS

PURCHASE ON BANDCAMP

Original art by Krista Franklin

Original art by Krista Franklin

 

:: NEW VIDEO ::

FIRST YOU NEED A BODY

 

MERCH

Vinyl copies of our album WE HERE: Thank You For Noticing ($30) and our book Five Fifths ($25, Candor Arts) are available for curbside pick-up in Hyde Park, Chicago. We hope to have shipping capacity in the near future.

Please message for details.

 

Press

 

ESSENCE

COME TO ME OPEN on BIG DARK BRIGHT FUTURES makes Essence Magazine’s weekly playlist.


CABBAGES

Marina Murayama Nir profiles the collective ahead of the release of our first book Five Fifths.


FLOOD MAGAZINE premieres our video for Come to Me Open, directed and edited by New Trash.


AFROPUNK premieres our video for Shout Across Mountains and announces our forthcoming album BIG DARK BRIGHT FUTURES, out October 16th.


We walk about the origins of Shout Across Mountains, our first release since 2017, with Michael Roffman of COS.


We sat down with music and culture writer Britt Julious ahead of the release of our inaugural album WE HERE: Thank You For Noticing, for the Chicago Tribune.


Writer Lee V. Gaines covers our work in which we "[ask] all races to fight racism," for the Chicago Reader.


Marina Murayama Nir profiles the collective ahead of the release of our first book Five Fifths.