Registration is Now Open for Poetry Out Loud 2026 !!!
The Chicago Poetry Center is pleased to serve in its 9th year as the Chicagoland Regional Host Organization for the Poetry Out…

The Chicago Poetry Center is pleased to serve in its 9th year as the Chicagoland Regional Host Organization for the Poetry Out…
Invest in Chicago’s Students Support the Chicago Poetry Center The Chicago Poetry Center is closing out a successful…
A New School Year at the Chicago Poetry Center! This month, CPC launched its 2020-21 poetry residencies. While there’s…
NEWSLETTER VERSION HERE. November Spotlight: Detox “Proximity” by Jyreika Guest chronicles the experience of the past eight months of…
NEWSLETTER VERSION HERE. October Spotlight: Miss America It isn’t known how many tens or hundreds of millennia ago humans created language…
Luis Tubens aka Logan Lu Born in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood and raised in Logan Square, Luis Tubens, aka Logan Lu, has…
Leslie Reese Native Detroiter Leslie Reese is a Chicago-based writer, poet, and teaching artist. She is the Chicago Poetry Center…
SOCIAL MEDIA INTERNSHIP Position Description We are currently seeking a creative, versatile, and hard working Social Media intern to support…
PROGRAMS MANAGER CHICAGO POETRY CENTER Mission The Chicago Poetry Center’s mission is to connect people with poetry, equitably engage poets…
The Chicago Reader covers our “Shelter in Poetry” transition to virtual support of CPS students: https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicago-poetry-center-virtual-lessons/Content?oid=80446896 Of particular note is…
A poem written from home this past month by one of our student poets: Jaylon speaks plainly to the need…
Good news from: Students Write Poems from Home Just one week after CPS official remote learning days began, we…
Tarnynon Onumonu Tarnynon (Ty-yuh-nuh) Onumonu was born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago, IL…