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June Reading Series Spotlight: Timothy David Rey

Timothy David Rey Timothy David Rey is a Chicago-based poet, playwright, performer and educator. He is a 2015 semi-finalist for the Guild Literary Complex’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award, and one of the […]

Education Spotlight

Good news from: Students Write Poems from Home   Just one week after CPS official remote learning days began, we were able to transition our school-based poetry residencies to virtual programs. That means we’re […]

May Reading Series Spotlight: Tarnynon Onumonu

Tarnynon Onumonu Tarnynon (Ty-yuh-nuh) Onumonu was born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago, IL and is extremely proud of and humbled by her southside citizenship and West […]

April Reading Series Spotlight: Larry O. Dean

Larry O. Dean Larry O. Dean has been a Chicago Poetry Center teaching artist since 2003, currently at Skinner West Elementary in the West Loop and initially at James Shield Elementary in Brighton Park. […]

March Reading Series Spotlight: Joy Young

Joy Young Joy Young is a Chicago-based poet and educator, who holds a BA in Fiction from Columbia College and MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University. Her work has appeared in Poetry […]

Reading Series: February 2020

February 2020 Reading Marty McConnell and Maya Marshall February 20th, 7-8 pm The Martin   Marty McConnell is part of the vanguard of poets fusing and refusing and queering the delineations between literary and […]

Six Points Reading Series: November 2019

November Six Points Reading Meg Day and Jonathan Mendoza November 15th, 7-8 pm Semicolon Bookstore Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street, 2014), winner of the Barrow Street […]

Pulitzer Center + Poetry Center Partner for Miles Davis Poetry Workshop

The Poetry Center is happy to be a partner to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Through this partnership, we’ve linked up our partner school, Sir Miles Davis Magnet Academy in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, […]

Six Points Reading ft. Faisal Mohyuddin & Suman Chhabra

Wednesday, Feb 6 Bookends & Beginnings 1712 Sherman Ave 6-7:30 PM The Chicago Poetry Center will host a reading at Bookends & Beginnings featuring poets Faisal Mohyuddin & Suman Chhabra from 6-7:30 PM. The […]

Six Points Reading featuring Jacob Saenz & Jasmin Jordan-Portaz

Wednesday, November 7 7-9 PM Alulu Brewery and Pub 2011 S Laflin St Chicago, IL 60608 Join the Chicago Poetry Center’s Six Points Reading Series at Alulu Brewery & Pub for poetry (7-8 PM) […]

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