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All Schools Reading Winter 2025

The Chicago Poetry Center sends our warm gratitude to the incredible students, families, and teachers that helped make CPC’s Winter 2025 All Schools Reading a success! It was an absolute delight to hear such […]

FSU Grants Fellowship Award for Summer Internship at PCC

Paige Blair, a second-year candidate in the Master of Fine Arts in poetry program at Florida State University, has been granted the prestigious Moellership award for her proposal to join the Poetry Center as […]

Jason Bredle, Lana Rahkman, and Alix Anne Shaw to read Feb 19

Join the Poetry Center on the 19th for the February installment of the Six Points Reading Series. Admission is free at 6pm in the Garland Room on the first floor of the Chicago Cultural […]

C. Russell Price and Valerie Wallace to read Jan. 21

Join the Poetry Center of Chicago on January 21 at 6pm for the next installment of the Six Points Reading Series. Admission is free in the Garland Room on the first floor of the […]

Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Larry Sawyer, and Tyler Mills to Read Dec. 11

Join the Poetry Center of Chicago on December 11 for the next installment of the Six Points Reading Series. Admission is free in the Garland Room on the 1st floor of the Chicago Cultural […]

Donate to the Poetry Center on #GivingTuesday (That’s Today!)

Show your support on #GivingTuesday! This Tuesday, be thankful for poetry in schools, for creative literacy opportunities in underserved communities and for lines like these from our students: I’m from the city lights / […]

Today Only! 50% off Broadsides in our online store!

This holiday season you can support the Poetry Center of Chicago while getting your shopping done! PCC is offering 50% off our large collection of limited edition broadsides, today only! Have you decided which […]

50% Off Rare & Limited Broadsides in the Poetry Center Store this Cyber Monday!

This holiday season you can support the Poetry Center of Chicago while getting your shopping done! On Cyber Monday PCC is offering 50% off our large collection of limited edition broadsides! Have you decided […]

Poetry Center of Chicago Joins National #GivingTuesday Movement

This Tuesday, be thankful for poetry in schools, for creative literacy opportunities in underserved communities and for lines like these from our students: I’m from the city lights / Streaming out in the night […]

Animale Carnivale (pt. 1)

As part of a partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, I too get to teach the Carnival of the Animals to all of my students. I was able to play the music for “The […]

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