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Student Poets Read! May 4 at the Cultural Center!

  Join us in celebrating our student poets, from 2nd Grade to Sophomore Year! One student poet from each Hands On Stanzas classroom is invited to read an original poem on stage at the […]

Poetry Center is awarded Arts Partner for Ingenuity Creative Schools Fund Grant!

George Washington High School was awarded an Ingenuity Creative Schools Fund grant to bring in the Poetry Center of Chicago as special arts partner, to reinvigorate a spoken word community at the school. Our […]

Fatimah Asghar, Ladan Osman, & Roger Reeves at Tea Project

Tea Project is an ongoing dialogue that traverses a variety of landscapes from the tea served in the Iraqi countryside, to a cage in Guantanamo Bay, to a family gathering. Tea is both a […]

Illinois Humanities Awards Poetry Center with General Support Grant

The Poetry Center of Chicago has been awarded a General Support Grant from Illinois Humanities! U.S. Senator Richard Durbin congratulated the Poetry Center on the award: Your tireless commitment to bringing much-needed creative literacy […]

Ben Clark & Kush Thompson to read March 25

Join the Poetry Center of Chicago at Comfort Station in Logan Square on March 25 at 7pm for the March installment of the Six Points Reading Series! In 2016 we continue to move to […]

PCC Executive Director Interviewed by The Adroit Journal

Poetry Center Executive Director, Elizabeth Metzger Sampson was recently interviewed by The Adroit Journal about the Hands on Stanzas program and teaching poetry to youth in Chicago Public Schools. “This program was built out […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Responses to ‘Poems from Guantanamo’

Call for Submissions: Responses to Poems from Guantanamo Submission Deadline: March 7, 2016 The Tea Project, in conjunction with Warrior Writers, Links Hall, and the Poetry Center of Chicago, seeks submissions for publication of […]

Christopher Soto, Roger Reeves, Jamila Woods, & Emily Jungmin Yoon to read Feb. 6

Join the Poetry Center of Chicago in the downstairs space at Subterranean for the February installment of the Six Points Reading Series! In 2016 we continue to move to a variety of rotating locations […]

Fatimah Asghar & Donna Vorreyer to read Jan. 28

Join the Poetry Center of Chicago for the Six Points Reading Series’ first installment of 2016! This first reading of the year turns a new page for the Poetry Center as we move into […]

Seeking Teaching Artist for 2015-16 Spoken Word Program

The Poetry Center of Chicago is seeking a new Poet In Residence to teach poetry reading, comprehension, writing, and performance to Chicago Public School students at Washington High School during the spring of 2016. […]

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