The Chicago Poetry Center is now in its ninth year as Chicagoland regional host organization for the national youth poetry…
George Washington High School was awarded an Ingenuity Creative Schools Fund grant to bring in the Poetry Center of Chicago…
Tea Project is an ongoing dialogue that traverses a variety of landscapes from the tea served in the Iraqi countryside,…
The Poetry Center of Chicago has been awarded a General Support Grant from Illinois Humanities! U.S. Senator Richard Durbin congratulated…
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago at Comfort Station in Logan Square on March 25 at 7pm for the March…
Poetry Center Executive Director, Elizabeth Metzger Sampson was recently interviewed by The Adroit Journal about the Hands on Stanzas program and teaching poetry to…
Call for Submissions: Responses to Poems from Guantanamo Submission Deadline: March 7, 2016 The Tea Project, in conjunction with Warrior…
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago in the downstairs space at Subterranean for the February installment of the Six Points…
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago for the Six Points Reading Series’ first installment of 2016! This first reading of…
The Poetry Center of Chicago is seeking a new Poet In Residence to teach poetry reading, comprehension, writing, and performance…
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago for the December installment of the Six Points Reading Series. Admission is free at…
This #GivingTuesday, we’re thankful for poetry in schools, for creative literacy opportunities in underserved communities, and for lines like these from…