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Friday, February 10 – 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Women & Children First Bookstore 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60640   Join us for The Odes For You tour, a two-woman poetry performance […]

Poetry Center of Chicago is proud to be a co-sponsor of Writers Resist. Join us at Open Books and around the city on January 15! Full event details available here.

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The Poetry Center of Chicago is proud to carry on its mission of supporting poets and poetry across Chicago. Each month the Six Points reading series offers “full spectrum” poetry readings for free to […]

Join the Poetry Center of Chicago at City Lit for the December installment of the Six Points Reading Series! In 2016 we continue to move to a variety of rotating locations throughout Chicago, and […]

Please help us give a big Poetry Center welcome to our new Six Points curator, Natasha Mijares! We are so excited for your energy and your ideas. We are delighted to count you as […]

Today we send out a a huge thank you to our fabulous Six Points curator, Danielle Susi. She has given us years of intelligent, exciting pairings of poets, showcasing voices from Chicago and the […]

Join the Poetry Center of Chicago at Innertown Pub for the October installment of the Six Points Reading Series! In 2016 we continue to move to a variety of rotating locations throughout Chicago, and […]

The Poetry Center of Chicago is proud to partner with Free Write Arts & Literacy and Chicago Books to Women in Prison to present a special reading and book drive on Wednesday, September 28 […]

Join the Poetry Center of Chicago at City Lit Books for the September installment of the Six Points Reading Series on September 14 at 6:30pm In 2016 we continue to move to a variety […]

Our 2nd annual crowdfunding campaign is live! Will you help us bring poets into Chicago classrooms? Hands On Stanzas scholarships are funded through a combination of grants and personal donations–and that’s why we need […]

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