The Chicago Poetry Center is pleased to serve in its 9th year as the Chicagoland Regional Host Organization for the Poetry Out…
The start of spring in Chicago felt like the perfect opportunity to write about our dreams. Using a lesson template…
Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! After reading “Hairs”—a section from Sandra Cisneros’s book, The House on Mango Street—we discussed,…
The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. Each…
Celebrate National Poetry Month with CPC Performances With April just around the corner, the Chicago Poetry Center can’t wait…
In this week’s Poetry Club we discussed Love and Poetry. We began with a heart chakra exercise to get in…
Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! This week’s poems are full of deeply felt feelings, because they are about people…
For the first Poetry Session at Latino Youth High School I introduced “Casi Gato AKA Carnedechivo née Ricardo Sánchez (Sometimes!)”…
Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! During week 3, we discussed stanzas in poetry and examined examples from amazing poets…
On Sunday night while most people were at home watching the 95th Oscar Awards, Poetry Out Loud Illinois student competitors…
Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! We began our week 2 lesson by exploring The Best Part of Me, a…
Greetings Galileo poetry friends and followers! We are embarking on a ten-week poetry journey and it’s off to an incredible…
No Love for Love 2023 is in the books Thanks to Chicago Poetry Center’s donors, friends, and community members,…