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Upcoming Events
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Leila Wilson & Averill Curdy - Poetry Reading & Book Release
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 6:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park Room, 5th Floor
Leila Wilson (The Hundred Grasses,
Milkweed Editions) and Averill Curdy (Song & Error, FSG) read from
their recently released poetry collections.
This is a free and public Poetry Center of Chicago event. Connect with us, and RSVP (optional) at facebook.com/PoetryCenter
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Color Me Impressed
Submitted by Larry Dean on May 20, 2013 - 3:41pm.
Skinner West
Color was our focus last week. We read Marge Piercy's "Colors passing through us" and discussed the poet's choices: which colors, and why those? Is there a pattern in the poem? Who might the "you" be addressed by the speaker? Is the language used accessible or difficult? Much good conversation ensued, and when it was time to write the idea was relatively straightforward: create a poem about one or more colors. Here are a few examples from each class.
Ms. Ellis
Room 221
Blue
Niko B.
Blue as water, Blue as jays, Blue as milky ways, Blue as cars, Blus as the sky, Blue as fibs and lies. Blue is anything so let's go Blue and have some eyes. Dear Jane
Jakyi H.
I have a red flower for you. My house is all red. Red is my favorite color. The sky is red. Every thing is red. Red is everybody's color. I might have a red shirt. The grass is red.
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News & Updates
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Elise Paschen and Kevin Prufer Reading 3:00 Saturday November 19th at The Poetry Center of Chicago 78 E Washington St.,
Kevin Prufer is the author of five books of poems, the most recent of which are In a Beautiful Country (Four Way, 2011) and National Anthem (2008), named one of the five best poetry books of the year by Publishers Weekly. He is also Editor of, among others, New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008; w/Wayne Miller) and Editor-at-Large of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.
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Hands on Stanzas Summer Fling
This summer Hands on Stanzas, The Poetry Center's literacy through poetry program, was proud to partner with Alternatives, Inc. to bring poetry programming to seven summer camps sponsored by the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.
Alternatives, Inc. is northeast Chicago's largest agency dedicated to at-risk youth and their families. The not-for profit agency's goal is to facilitate personal development, strengthen family relationships, and enhance the community's well being.
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Hands on Stanzas Anthology Live!
The 2010 Hands on Stanzas Anthology of Student Verse is here. Students participating in the Poetry Center's literacy through poetry program for the 2009-2010 academic year are assembled here, for the first time, in this comprehensive electronic collection of poetry.
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Natalie Merchant on NPR's Morning Edition
Natalie Merchant spoke to Morning Edition host Renee Montagne this morning about her newly released album Leave Your Sleep, which features Merchant's musical interpretations of poetry by a diverse array of writers. Merchant will be performing songs from this album in an upcoming concert brought to you by the Poetry Center. The interview is available online here.
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Paul and Maryrose Carroll Beat Collection
Through his editorship of literary journals, Paul Carroll promoted the development of the 1950s era Beat poets. While serving as the poetry editor of the Chicago Review, Carroll and editor Irving Rosenthal included controversial rising poets William Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although Chicago Review was recognized for avant garde works, University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton suppressed its Winter 1959 issue leading Carroll and Rosenthal to found a new journal Big Table with increased literary freedom to publish Beat poets.
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