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November Poetry Programs Spotlight

A New School Year at the Chicago Poetry Center!   This month, CPC launched its 2020-21 poetry residencies. While there’s nothing quite like being in classrooms with students, the Poets in Residence are thrilled […]

November Reading Series Spotlight: Jyreika Guest

NEWSLETTER VERSION HERE. November Spotlight: Detox   “Proximity” by Jyreika Guest chronicles the experience of the past eight months of living through the Covid-19 pandemic, the poem’s speaker uninfected by the virus biologically, but […]

October Reading Series Spotlight: Frankiem Mitchell

NEWSLETTER VERSION HERE. October Spotlight: Miss America It isn’t known how many tens or hundreds of millennia ago humans created language to wrestle the chaos of thought into shapes that could be separated, spoken […]

September Reading Series Spotlight: Luis Tubens

Luis Tubens aka Logan Lu Born in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood and raised in Logan Square, Luis Tubens, aka Logan Lu, has performed poetry throughout the metropolitan area and North America, including with the […]

August Reading Series Spotlight: Leslie Reese

Leslie Reese Native Detroiter Leslie Reese is a Chicago-based writer, poet, and teaching artist. She is the Chicago Poetry Center Poet-in-Residence at Swift Elementary School. Leslie is the founder of folklore & literacy, which […]

Internships: Social Media & Website Development

SOCIAL MEDIA INTERNSHIP Position Description We are currently seeking a creative, versatile, and hard working Social Media intern to support the efforts of our communications team, including creating online content, building our social media […]

Hiring Call: Programs Director

PROGRAMS MANAGER CHICAGO POETRY CENTER Mission The Chicago Poetry Center’s mission is to connect people with poetry, equitably engage poets with communities, and foster creativity and literacy in schools. We do this work through […]

Chicago Reader covers CPC’s “Shelter in Poetry” virtual support to CPS students

The Chicago Reader covers our “Shelter in Poetry” transition to virtual support of CPS students: https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicago-poetry-center-virtual-lessons/Content?oid=80446896 Of particular note is the stellar job the CPC Poets in Residence have done in making this pivot. […]

Black Lives Matter: A Statement of Solidarity

A poem written from home this past month by one of our student poets: Jaylon speaks plainly to the need for system-wide truth, reconciliation, and justice, from 5th grade. The Chicago Poetry Center stands […]

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 […]

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