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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…

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CPC Summer Poetry Party 2023

The Chicago Poetry Center presents SUMMER POETRY PARTY 2023! Celebrate summer with the Chicago Poetry Center! Friday July 14 at…

What Matters to Me is Metaphors

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! This week’s lesson revolved around metaphors and important things. We discussed the difference…

Five Directions Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! This week’s lesson we focused on places—places we know very well, places we…

Family Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! This week’s poems are full of deeply felt feelings, because they are about…

Poetry Celebration!

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! All of the fourth graders had a blast celebrating and sharing our poems out…

Invitation Poems

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! As we wrap up our time together reading, writing, listening to, and reciting poetry……

Alive in Music Poems

Greetings West Park poetry friends and followers! During week 3, we read and discussed the poem “I Wish I Could…

Music Memory Poems (Part 2)

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! For the past 2 weeks, we have been working on poems related to memories…

Music Memory Poems (Part 1)

Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! For the past 2 weeks, we have been working on poems related to memories…

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