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…
In week 9, we stretched our poetic imaginations with personification poems about colors and continued to work on writing poems…
In week 5 of poetry class at Moos, we had fun exploring juxtapositions and playing around with silly language! We…
In week eight of poetry class, we had fun reading a poem about a magical library tour. We talked about…
In week seven of poetry class, we had fun reading haiku poems and drawing winter scenes to help inspire our…
In our fourth week of poetry class at Moos, we had fun reading and writing about dreams! We listened to…
Last week, we had fun exploring comparison poems and similes! We shared some of our favorite lines from a round…
This week we had fun playing around with silly language! We discussed the idea that a poet can place two…
How do you make noise on paper?/ ¿Cómo haces ruido en el papel? In our second week of poetry class, we…
This week, we enjoyed reading, drawing, and writing dream poems! We talked about how the descriptive words in the poems…
Wednesday, Feb 6 Bookends & Beginnings 1712 Sherman Ave 6-7:30 PM The Chicago Poetry Center will host a reading at…
In our first week of poetry class, we discussed the Hands on Stanzas poetry class residency (art class with words)…
In week 3, we had fun exploring comparison poems! We talked about how things that are different can share similarities…