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1hundred1 picks up on Poetry Center archive posters. (8/05)
The Poetry Center director Kenneth Clarke is ranked #23 in New City Chicago's Lit 50 2005. (6/05)
The University of Chicago Library recently acquired The Poetry Center's archive. The collection contains hundreds of event posters, handbills, brochures, papers, and other ephemera from the last 30 plus years, completing, spiritually at least, the Big Table Archive and Paul Carroll's personal papers, which also have a home in the library. The library also purchased rare complete run of The Poetry Center's Broadsides. An exhibit at the library titled "From Poetry to Verse," which runs from September 2005 to January 2006, will feature some of The Poetry Center collection along with other pieces from their modern poetry collection. (5/05)
Poetry Center statement regarding the cancelled Jill Scott poetry reading. (5/05)
Rhymes on the Range Chicago Magazine interviewed Baxter Black before his April Poetry Center reading. (4/05)
A sampling of some Poetry Center events recently aired by CAN TV, Chicago Access Network Television. The Poetry Center and CAN TV have been working together since 2000. (Posted 1/05)
AdPulp.com, featuring "Daily Juice from the Ad Biz" blurbs the Li-Young Lee Broadside (posted 12/04)
Margaret Lyons at Chicagoist, a website about Chicago, discovers the Li-Young Lee Billboard and declares that this very large poem momentarily makes one forget about how delicious a cheese sandwich can be and that it "rockpants." Read about at www.chicagoist.com (posted 12/04)
Tom Lynch at Newcity Chicago blurbs the Poetry Center's Franz Wright event. (posted 11/04)
Poetry Town, U.S.A.
A bit about The Poetry Center in Chicago Magazine (posted 10/04)
Billboard.com article: Lucinda Sets Summer Tour, Special Shows
a tour that began with her performace at The poetry Center (posted 6/04)
Williams Family Tales, Tunes and Truths at ShinyGun.com
A songwriter and a poet perform at The Poetry Center by Bryson Meunier (posted 6/04)
A Sun Times Article re: Miller and Lucinda Williams Event, by Bobby Reed
Extraordinary artistic talent can result from the combination of genetics and environment. Lucinda Williams is one of the nation's most acclaimed songwriters. Her father, Miller Williams, is one of the nation's most acclaimed poets (posted 6/04)
New City Publishes Its Annual Lit 50
A listing of the literati who help make Chicago's literary scene as vibrant as possible. Studs Terkel is #1. Kenneth Clarke, The Poetry Center's executive director, is #13 (posted 6/04)
A happy Poetry Center customer and poetry fan writes
about his purchase of James Tate's "Shiloh" broadside in his blog (posted 6/04)
Lucinda Williams and Miller Williams event mentioned in brief at www.rollingstone.com
From the earth to the sky:
Terse, ironic, and uncluttered, Luciano Erba's poetry reaches heavenward through hidden humor A Chicago Journal Poetry Center Event Review by Lydialyle Gibson (posted 6/04)
Killing time with the Grim Reaper:
A self-described 'humorous poet,' Mark Strand is serious, spellbinding, heartbreaking--and outright funny A Chicago Journal Poetry Center Event Review by Lydialyle Gibson (posted 6/04)
Poetry Center Summer Poetry Residency mention in The Chicago Tribune (posted 5/04)
Can Rockers Be Poets? Poetic license or verbal abuse? Sun Times Article By Jim Derogatis (posted 5/04)
New Summer Poetry Residency in Downtown Chicago Information, application and guidelines. (posted 3/04)
"Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, if This is the Only Poem You Know This Story's for You." Daily Herald Story by Sara Burnett. (posted 3/04)
October 1, 1974 Poetry Center Press Release The Poetry Center's first official press release for its first official event after being incorporated as a not-for-profit arts organization in 1974. (posted 1/04)
Press Release: A New Poet Laureate for Three Oaks, Michigan. (posted 1/04)
Poem Finds A Home: Chicago Tribune article about the Mark Strand Billboard.
"We were approached by Lightology for the idea," said Kenneth Clarke, executive director of the Poetry Center. "We've been wanting to do something with all the Loop billboards that were put up back in the day. They had the billboard, and we had the poets." (posted 1/04)
State Chooses a Poet Laureate: Chicago Tribune article about the selection of Kevin Stein as Poet Laureate of Illinois. ...term limit will promote a diversity of styles over the years. "I think we're better off with more poet laureates over the next hundred years than less," said Kenneth Clarke, executive director of the Poetry Center of Chicago. "You can have more diversity of voices, more diversity of ethnicity, more diversity within the state." (posted 1/04)
Associated Press article about the selection of Kevin Stein as Poet Laureate of Illinois. "The biggest challenge for any poet laureate of Illinois is actually getting out there with the message to the people of Illinois that poetry is for them, that it’s not this exclusive, lofty art form," said Kenneth Clarke, executive director of the Poetry Center of Chicago. (posted 1/04)
On Brokenness And Leaving: A Poet's Junkyard Of Possibilities By Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein, a third year Hands on Stanzas poet-in-residence at Columbus Elementary School, Chicago. A version of this essay was published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative (posted 11/03)
Transcript of Billy Collins & Ira Glass Conversation from Billy Collins performance at The Poetry Center on November 8, 2001 (posted 11/03)
Poetry Center feature by Arthur Melville Pearson of The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (posted 10/03)
How To Fend Off: Words Of Wisdom, If Only A Precise And Prickly Few, From Poet Mary Kinzie
A Chicago Journal Poetry Center Event Review by Lydialyle Gibson (posted 10/03)
Photographer Steven Gross Volunteered his time and resources to document the Poetry Center Benefit at Allen Turner's loft after Billy Corgan's Poetry Reading. (posted 10/03)
Chicago Public Radio's Steve Edwards interviews Billy Corgan about his transition from rock music to poetry on "Eight Forty-Eight". (posted 10/03)
Associated Press Article about Illinois Poet Laureate published in the Sun Times (posted 10/03)
Billy Corgan Broadside (posted 9/03)
News About The Billy Corgan Event
Rollingstone,
Billboard,
NME,
MTV,
VH1 (posted 9/03)
Poetry Center Press Release: Outstanding Service Award from The Chicago Community Trust's Young Leaders Fund (posted 8/03)
Poetry Center Press Release: Billy Corgan Poetry Reading (posted 8/03)
Hands on Stanzas Gwendolyn Brooks Awards
Given to Cecilia Pinto and Marvin Tate (posted 7/03)
Poetry Center Press Release: Verizon Foundation Grant Acknowledgment (posted 7/03)
The Hands on Stanzas 2002-2003 Anthology of Poetry is avaliable for $10 a copy Call 312-899-1229 to purchase your copy, or visit www.amazon.com (posted 6/03)
The Wrong Sort of Poet/The Kind that Makes a Difference
By Deanna Isaacs for the Chicago Reader (posted 5/03)
Poetry Center Press Release: Paul Berger Award & Target Foundation Renewal (posted 4/03)
'A silver tear, a tiny flame': Chicago poet Li-Young Lee pays a visit to the literati at The Poetry Center of Chicago A Chicago Journal Poetry Center Event Review by Lydialyle Gibson (posted 4/03)
Words of Art by Bryson Meunier
Exhibition of Broadsides Review Titled "Chants and Verse" at Shinygun.com View some of the broadsides online (posted 4/03)
Chicago Public Radio's "Why I Should Be Poet Laureate of Illinois" Contest Results (posted 4/03)
Chicago Public Radio's Steve Edwards interviews The Poetry Center's Executive Director Kenneth Clarke about The Search for a New Illinois Poet Laureate on "Eight Forty-Eight". (posted 3/03)
Poetry Center Press Release: Words of Art: Exhibition of Broadsides at Bell Studio Gallery (posted 3/03)
Illinois Poet Laureate: The Lost Laureate (posted 2/03)
Chicago Public Radio's Steve Edwards interviews poet Kevin Young while Young was in town for his reading at The Poetry Center on "Eight Forty-Eight" (posted 2/03)
Listen to Garrison Keillor
read Poetry Center board member Mark Perlberg's poem The End of The Holidays on The Writer's Almanac, produced by Minnesota Public Radio. Recorded December 29, 2002. (posted 12/02)
'Not Dark, Not Dark, But Almost' Lurking In Shadows, Charles Wright's Poetry Wonders About History, Memory, And The Rest Of Time A Chicago Journal Poetry Center Event Review by Lydialyle Gibson (posted 11/02)
30 Chicago Poets Read
Their Favorite Poems During the Month of October 2001 & 2002
on 98.7 WFMT Radio
(posted 10/01 & 10/02)
Memoir for Paul Carroll
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (posted 9/02)
Poetry Center Press Release: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Live at the Poetry Center (posted 9/02)
The Poetry Center in Pictures
Images from the 2001 - 2002 season.
(posted 8/02)
Wanted in Three Oaks:
a part-time village poet laureate (posted 8/02)
The Poetry Center Announces The
Winners Of The 2001-2002 Gwendolyn Brooks Hands On Stanzas Award (posted 7/02)
In Memory of Kenneth Koch, poet and poetry education pioneer. He will be missed. (posted 7/02)
The Poetry Center Hosted
The City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Network (posted 4/02)
Poetry Center Press Release: Sahara Sunday Spain poetry reading to benefit Hands on Stanzas (posted 1/02)
Psalms of Introspection, and Independence: Jorie Graham Laments A National Mood Of Monomaniacal Oversimplification A Chicago Journal Poetry Center Event Review by Lydialyle Gibson (posted 12/01)
Poet Populist, U.S. Poet Laureate
Billy Collins, an article by Heidi Broadhead (posted 11/01)
New York Times Article about The Poetry Center's Billy Collins Event. (posted 11/01)
A poem for the victims of 9/11 (posted 9/11/01)
INCANTATION
By Czeslaw Milosz
Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It establishes the universal ideas in language,
And guides our hand so we write Truth and Justice
With capital letters, lie and oppression with small.
It puts what should be above things as they are,
It is an enemy of despair and a friend of hope.
It does not know Jew from Greek or slave from master,
Giving us the estate of the world to manage.
It saves austere and transparent phrases
From the filthy discord of tortured words.
It says that everything is new under the sun,
Opens the congealed fist of the past.
Beautiful and very young are Philo-Sophia
And poetry, her ally in the service of the good.
As late as yesterday Nature celebrated their birth,
The news was brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo,
Their friendship will be glorious, their time has no limit,
Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction.
--Czeslaw Milosz, trans. Robert Pinsky & the author
Bob Holman's Memoir of a Chicago
Po-Renaissance, 1969-71 (posted 8/01)
Interview with Alice Randall
Parody on Trial: Alice Randall Writing In-Sanity
By Lamaretta Simmons (posted 7/01)
Interview with Robert Creeley
By Heidi Broadhead (posted 11/00)
"The Poet in His Skin:
Remembering Paul Carroll," founder of The Poetry Center
By Paul Hoover
(posted 10/00)
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