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…
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago at Mars Gallery for the August installment of the Six Points Reading Series on…
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago at Innertown Pub for the July installment of the Six Points Reading Series on…
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art for the June installment of…
Join the Poetry Center of Chicago at Beauty & Brawn in Logan Square for the May installment of the Six…
We are so pleased to announce that the Poetry Center of Chicago has become a member of the Chicago Literacy…
Join us in celebrating our student poets, from 2nd Grade to Sophomore Year! One student poet from each Hands…
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…