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…
Last week at Avondale Logandale, the students wrote their very own ars poetica – a poem about the art of…
Last week, we read a personal story poem adapted from a longer poem by George Ella Lyon, “Where I’m From.”…
Today’s theater games were centered around building trust and communicating with their body language and eye contact. The youth had…
Last week at Moos, we continued to stretch our poetic imaginations with reverse personification poems of nature delight! We had…
Last week, we read “Where I’m From,” a personal story poem adapted from a longer poem by George Ella Lyon.…
Last week, we stretched our poetic imaginations with personification poems about colors and continued to work on writing poems with…
Crane High School slam team (aka Poetic Deviance) took FIRST PLACE at the Louder Than A Bomb Semi-Finals! Next stop…
Chicago Poetry Center is excited to announce that Taisaun Levi from from the Crane High School slam team (aka Poetic…
In week 10, we continued to stretch our poetic imaginations with reverse personification poems of nature delight! We had fun…
It’s official, the Crane High School slam team (aka Poetic Deviance) took 1st Place at the Louder Than A Bomb Quarter…
In week six of poetry class, we had fun reading a poem about a magical library tour. We talked about…
Youth Guidance organized a Pop-Up Lunchroom Open Mic to bring students from all of the after school programs together to…