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Crane High School Slam Team Wins Louder Than A Bomb Semi-Finals!

Crane High School slam team (aka Poetic Deviance) took FIRST PLACE at the Louder Than A Bomb Semi-Finals! Next stop FINALS STAGE at the Auditorium Theater on March 18th!   Our Poets with Class […]

Crane High School Poet Advances to Louder Than A Bomb Indy Finals!

Chicago Poetry Center is excited to announce that Taisaun Levi from from the Crane High School slam team (aka Poetic Deviance) has advanced to Louder Than A Bomb’s Indy Finals! The poets that compete […]

Crane High School Slam Team Wins Louder Than A Bomb Quarter Finals!

It’s official, the Crane High School slam team (aka Poetic Deviance) took 1st Place at the Louder Than A Bomb Quarter Finals! Next stop, Semi-Finals! #GoTeam Semi-Finals will be held on March 10th at […]

Pop-Up Lunchroom Open Mic at Crane HS

Youth Guidance organized a Pop-Up Lunchroom Open Mic to bring students from all of the after school programs together to showcase their work! Crane HS slam team poet, Jonquil, performs a poem called “This […]

Cosplay For Readers!

When we arrive to schools to perform an assembly, we don’t always know where we’ll perform in the school, it might be the auditorium, the library, a gymnasium, we’ve even been asked to perform […]

We’re Hiring: Teaching Artists

HIRING CALL: POET TEACHING ARTISTS Hands On Stanzas Program, Chicago Poetry Center Position: Poet In Residence with the Chicago Poetry Center Deadline: Rolling applications until roster is full, apply soon! Check out: this brief […]

MLK Academy welcomes Poets with Class!

We’re so humbled to be invited to the Martin Luther King Jr Academy for Social Justice to perform a special assembly for some of the highest achieving kiddos in the school! For more information […]

Shooting for the Stars at St Symphorosa School!

Our interstellar-interfaith assembly at St Symphorosa School was out of this world! This was a remix of our popular theme based program called Shoot for the Stars. The kiddos were extremely inquisitive after our […]

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