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OCTOBER 20: MAYDA DEL VALLE & HANNAH GAMBLE

    The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.   Each event features two readers from Chicago […]

December Reading Series Spotlight

December Spotlight: The Lights That Never Went Out   2020: What a year. To close it out, the Chicago Poetry Center asked our team–Board members, Poets in Residence, Interns, Curriculum Designers, Programs Manager, and […]

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 […]

July Reading Series Spotlight: Davon Clark

Davon Clark Davon Clark is a Philadelphia-raised artist based in Chicago who uses investigative journalism practices in his camerawork and poetry. His work looks to fill in the gaps left behind in coverage of […]

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 […]

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. […]

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