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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Live at the Poetry Center CD
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Reading Series Downloads

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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Poetry Center Established at the MCA

 

30th Annual Reading Series Fall 2002


American Poets Reading
Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 6:30 p.m.
Jenny A. Burkholder, Deborah Bolda Cummins, Janice N. Harrington,
John Mann and others will read their award-winning poetry.


Molly Peacock
Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 6:30 p.m.
The Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute
112 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago


Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Thursday, October 17, 2002 6:30 p.m. The Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute
112 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago


Charles Wright
Thursday, November 7, 2002, 6:30 p.m. The Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute
112 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago


Anne Waldman
Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 6:30 p.m. The Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute
112 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago


9th Annual Juried Reading Submission Deadline: March 3, 2003



Kent Foreman
Poetry @ Around the Coyote Winter Festival
February 7, 2002

 
Denise Duhamel
& Kevin Young

Wednesday, February 12, 2003 6:30 p.m. Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute
112 South Michigan Avenue



American Poets Reading
Traci Dant, Duriel Harris
Patricia McMillen, Andrew Zawacki

Wednesday, March 6, 2003, 6:30 p.m. FREE
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute
112 South Michigan Avenue

LIVE FROM MARS IV
Hands on Stanzas Benefit
Saturday, March 22, 2003, 8:00 p.m.
Tickets $10. Donations Welcome.
Mars Gallery, 1139 West Fulton Market, Chicago


Li-Young Lee
Sponsored by the
Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation
Poetry Workshop
Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 6-8:30 p.m.
Space is limited to 20 participants.
Submit one poem for workshop.
Call 312.899.1229
Public Reading
Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 6:30 p.m.
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute
112 South Michigan Avenue
$15 general admission

9th Annual Juried Reading
North Shore Public Reading of Finalists
Saturday, April 12, 2003, 2 p.m. FREE
Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois

Downtown Chicago Public Reading and Awards
Saturday, April 26, 2003, 3 p.m. FREE
Harold Washington Public Library, 400 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois
$1000 in prizes. Call for details, 312.899.1229


M. Eliza Hamilton Abegunde
AfterHours @ The Art Institute
Thursday, April 17, 2003, 7 p.m.


Yusef Komunyakaa
Poetry Workshop
Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 6-8:30 p.m.
Space is limited to 20 participants.
Submit one poem for workshop. Call 312.899.1229.
Public Reading
Wednesday, May 14, 2003, 6:30 p.m.
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute
112 South Michigan Avenue
$15 general admission