Langston Hughes's poem "One-Way Ticket" captures chain migration by evoking the networks of letters, postcards, and word-of-mouth that pulled wave after wave of Black Southerners northward following those who went before; A poet working with chain migration might trace the path from a specific Mississippi county to a specific Chicago neighborhood, showing how the links of that chain were forged by individual acts of courage, generosity, and information-sharing; Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville poems represent the end point of chain migration, the communities built in northern cities by successive waves of Southern-born migrants whose individual journeys were part of a collective movement; A student poet might explore chain migration by writing about a grandmother's letter home that contained a train ticket, a specific act of kin-keeping that extended the chain northward; Natasha Trethewey's work on the Great Migration engages chain migration by examining what was lost in the passage northward, the specific cultural knowledge, landscape attachment, and communal fabric that could not be packed and carried; A contemporary poet might reverse the chain migration narrative by writing about return migration, tracing the chain southward as grandchildren and great-grandchildren follow a different pull back toward origins their families left behind