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Poetry @ The Green Series

The Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal present Poetry @ The Green at 320, a free, weekly reading and open mic series co-curated by CPC’s Poets in Residence Tarnynon Onumonu […]

The Chicago Poetry Center presents A Summer Poetry Gathering! 

*** ALERT! This event is nearly sold out. But the livestream is unlimited! Tune in from anywhere using this link. *** Wednesday, July 20 CPC Presents: A Summer Poetry Gathering Reading + Community Event […]

Dispatches from Italy #4: La Connessione

Hello once more, readers! In this dispatch, we share a final set of poems from the student poets of G.B. Vico Junior High School in Grosseto, Italy. One of the amazing things about poetry […]

Dispatches from Italy #3: Il Movimento

Welcome, readers, to the third dispatch in our series from Italy! In this post, the student poets of G.B. Vico Junior High School share poems that synthesize the themes of the previous dispatches (you […]

Dispatches from Italy #2: Le Oscurità

Buongiorno, readers, and welcome to the second installment of poems composed by the student poets of G.B. Vico Junior High School in Grosseto, Italy. In our first post, we shared poems that touched on […]

Dispatches from Italy #1: La Chiarezza

Benvenuti, dear readers, to a very special blog series! Over the coming weeks, we will be bringing you poems composed by some brilliant student poets in Italy. Their teacher, Carla Maestrini, writes: “The poems […]

Programs Spotlight: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at CPC’s New Video Series

Behind the Scenes of Our First Video Series: Queen Zee’s Poetic Adventures After months of project planning, script writing, and rehearsals, the Chicago Poetry Center filmed its first ever “poetry on demand” video series […]

MAY 18: JOSEPH LEGASPI & SARAH GAMBITO

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.   Each event features two readers from Chicago and beyond, […]

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at CPC’s New Video Series

Behind the Scenes of Our First Video Series: Queen Zee’s Poetic Adventures After months of project planning, script writing, and rehearsals, the Chicago Poetry Center filmed its first ever “poetry on demand” video series this month. Queen […]

APRIL 13: KEETJE KUIPERS & CHARIF SHANAHAN

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.   Each event features two readers from Chicago and beyond, […]

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