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Paul Muldoon reads Symposium 4/7/99 (mp3)
Paul Carroll reads Father 11/12/92 (mp3)
Czeslaw Milosz reads Song at the End of the World 11/12/89 (mp3)

 

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28th Annual Reading Series 2000-2001

Ed Paschke & John Yau: Image and Text
Tuesday, September 19, 2000, 6:00 p.m.. This reading is presented by the Poetry Center and the Friends of The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago

Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover

Wednesday, October 4, 2000, 6:00 p.m..

Robert Creeley
Wednesday, November 1, 2000, 6:00 p.m..

Patricia Powell
Wednesday, January 17, 2001, 6:00 p.m..

Former Poet Laureate, Robert Hass gave a free lecture on "The Progression of 20th Century Poetry" on February 3, 2001, at Loyola's Lake Shore Campus. The Poetry Center was proud to help the Mundelein College Student Activity Board attract an audience of 300 for a lecture on modern poetry (in which Chicago played a crucial role). Hass wrapped up his lecture with the reading of a Langston Hughes poem to improv blues guitar played by Richard Fammeree.

Zbigniew Herbert
Wednesday, February 21, 2001, 6:00 p.m..

Charles Simic
Wednesday, March 14, 2001, 6:00 p.m..

Agha Shahid Ali
Wednesday, April 4, 2001, 6:00 p.m..

The Seventh Annual Poetry Center and Friends Juried Reading at the Harold Washington Library
April 12, 2001, 6 p.m.

W.S. Merwin
Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 6:30 p.m. at The Field Museum