The Poetry Center of Chicago

Chicago Scene

The Poetry Center's Chicago Scene lists poetry events in and around the city. For a complete list of events click here.

Janet Holmes & Jenny Mueller Poetry Reading
February 17, 2010 5:30pm
Columbia College Chicago, Hokin Hall, 623 South Wabash, Room 109

JANET HOLMES is author of five books of poetry, most recently THE MS OF MY KIN (Shearsman, 2009) and F2F (U Notre Dame, 2006). She is a founding faculty member of the MFA in Creative Writing at Boise State University, where she also edits Ahsahta Press, an all-poetry publisher.

JENNY MUELLER’s first book of poems is Bonneville, published by Elixir Press in 2007. A graduate of the University of Chicago, University of Utah, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently lives in St. Louis and teaches at McKendree University, where she is an associate professor of English.

Announcements

Juried Reading Contest -- Submission Deadline Extended!

16th Annual Juried Reading and Awards

First prize: $1,500; Second prize: $500; third prize, $250; five finalists receive $50

New Postmark deadline: Friday, February 26, 2010

The Poetry Center invites regional poets to submit their unpublished work for consideration in the 16th Annual Juried Reading. Eight finalists will have their poetry published in an e-book by Plastique Press as well as on the Poetry Center website, and all eight poets will be invited to read at an award ceremony in the spring.

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New Big Table Workshop Sessions Announced!

Classes begin March!

Registration is now open for new sessions of the Spring, 2010 Big Table Workshop Series. Beginning in March, these 8-week, poetry intensive workshops meet for 1.5 hours each week and feature Introductory, Advanced, and Master classes.

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Hands on Stanzas Blogs

Thinking Small
Submitted by Janna Sobel on February 8, 2010 - 10:47am.
Moos Elementary

Thank you for coming back. This past week at Moos, the students and I took the opportunity to think about the beauty that we see in the world, and especially in small things. Studying imagism, which is a minimalist form of poetry that favors precision of imagry and clear, sharp language, we looked at Ezra Pound's two line poem "In a Station of the Metro", which, in it's entirity, reads like this:

IN A STATION OF THE METRO

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

News & Updates

Paul and Maryrose Carroll Beat Collection

Through his editorship of literary journals, Paul Carroll promoted the development of the 1950s era Beat poets. While serving as the poetry editor of the Chicago Review, Carroll and editor Irving Rosenthal included controversial rising poets William Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although Chicago Review was recognized for avant garde works, University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton suppressed its Winter 1959 issue leading Carroll and Rosenthal to found a new journal Big Table with increased literary freedom to publish Beat poets.

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Li-Young Lee reading on Chicago Amplified

Li-Young Lee's October 20th reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago is featured on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio's Chicago Amplified. To listen to the program just click the link below.

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=29727

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Poetry Center to take part in Berlin Film Festival

The Poetry Center's Cinema Poetic program partners with New York based multi-media literary magazine Rattapallax at ZEBRA Film Fest.

As part of its highly anticipated fourth year, the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin is featuring American Perspectives: Rattapallax & The Poetry Center of Chicago. Francesco Levato, Executive Director of the Poetry Center, will attend the festival to present 10 poetry films from the United States. Ram Devineni, founder and editor of Rattapallax will present alongside Levato.

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