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 6th workshop, by built our poetic device detector muscles by listening to the famous “I Have a Dream” speech…
Introducing: The Chicago Poetry Center! Have we got exciting news! We’ve changed our name to the Chicago Poetry Center.…
Today at Edwards, we started our poetry residency with asking “what is poetry?” Then, we read a poem by Pablo…
We’re so humbled to be invited to the Martin Luther King Jr Academy for Social Justice to perform a special…
By exploring the way Nomi Shihab Nye uses imagery, descriptive language, metaphors, and similes in her poem Kindness, in our…
The 3rd workshop we explored our connections to family, our life timelines, and how they’ve made us who we are!…
In our 5th workshop we used poetry as a means to honor and celebrate those we’ve lost by having the…
Join the Six Points Reading Series for a night of poetry and projections! Thursday, February 22 7 PM – 8:30…
Our interstellar-interfaith assembly at St Symphorosa School was out of this world! This was a remix of our popular theme based…

A poetry reading and haiku celebration! February 13 5:30-8 PM Weinberg/Newton Gallery 300 W Superior St, Suite 203 The…
