CPC Celebrates Black Leaders
in Chicago, Milwaukee, and More
The new year is off to a busy start as the Chicago Poetry Center celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with four virtual assemblies for Milwaukee’s St. Philip’s Lutheran School. With support from Bader Philanthropies, three of CPC’s Poets in Residence kicked off the long weekend by performing poems about community, identity, civic engagement, and social justice for the school’s 3rd-8th grade students.
Next month, we’ll engage students closer to home with Pop-Up Assemblies in honor of Black History Month. At a Friday night community expo at Huntley High School in Huntley, IL, CPC poets will share the work and legacies of Black poets who have inspired the poems we write today. In Chinatown, we’re spending an afternoon at Haines Elementary, one of our Residency partner schools, to share poems by Black legacy poets and play a leadership and identity-themed version of our interactive InstaPoem game.
If you’re interested in bringing the Chicago Poetry Center’s performances to your school or community, visit our website to learn more.
Vote for the Chicago Poetry Center!
We’re thrilled to be nominated in two categories in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago 2022. We’re a nominee for Best Poetry Organization, and Blue Hour is a nominee for Best Reading Series.
The deadline to vote is February 15th, so please vote for us in both categories on the Arts and Culture ballot. Thanks for your support!
Queen Zee in the News!
Special thanks to our friends at the American Writers Museum for offering complimentary field trips to eligible classrooms that complete the five-episode series. Email the Museum to learn more. And as always, huge thanks to the Ralla Klepak Foundation for Education in the Performing Arts for their generous support of this program as well as our residencies and pop-up performances.
No Love for Love 2023:
CPC’s Annual Fundraiser
No Love for Love is February 8th. Give today to support creative literacy!
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