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The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. Each event takes place at Haymarket House (800 W. Buena) and features two readers from Chicago […]
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Updated following ICE deployment through the city of Chicago and state of Illinois: Our communities are facing escalating violence and intimidation from federal immigration officers. CPC believes that no human is illegal, and we […]
- BY: Joy Young
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I’m excited to return back to Twain Elementary this Fall to teach poetry to 4th graders. During our first session of poetry this past Wednesday, we read a delicious poem by Eve Merriam, titled […]
- BY: Leslie Reese
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Wednesday I was reunited with Mrs. Murphy and got to meet new-to-me 3rd graders at Twain Elementary. It was great meeting Ms. O’Reilly who is covering for Ms. Isaacs while she is on leave. […]
- BY: Alyx Chandler
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This was the first poetry session for Ms. Licea’s third-grade classroom at Mark Twain Elementary School. Many of the students were excited to write about what they like and their feelings. After we got […]
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The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. […]
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Come See Us at Printers Row Lit Fest! The Chicago Poetry Center is excited to be part of the 40th Annual Printers Row Literary Festival this Saturday and Sunday, September 6-7th from 10am – 6pm. […]
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The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. Our September featured readers are Marianne Chan & Meghann Plunkett. Each event takes place at Haymarket House […]
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*** UPDATE: We’re no longer accepting applications. Thank you to all who have applied! We will follow up with all candidates. *** Downloadable PDF – Communications Intern Job Posting Downloadable PDF – Communications Intern […]
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On Wednesday, August 20, please join the Chicago Poetry Center in celebrating the life and legacy of poet Andrea Gibson. The event will include a brief tribute reading by local poets as well as […]
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More than 125 Chicago poets, poetry fans, and literary leaders gathered at Haymarket House on June 18, 2025 to honor CPC’s anti-censorship roots and wrap up our 50th anniversary year. Our headlining poet for […]
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Today, we’re sending a big and bigger table WELCOME to the newest members of CPC’s Board of Directors: Ashley Tran, Candace D. Green, Chris Toft, Ola Faleti, Stephanie Schultz, Whitney Capps, and Zeshawn Qadir! […]
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*** UPDATE: We’re no longer accepting applications. Thank you to all who have applied! We will follow up with all candidates. *** Downloadable PDF – Poet in Residence Posting Position: Poet in Residence with […]
- BY: Russell Price
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This week the young viking writers explored narrative in terms of collective familiarity and the deeply personal narrative in the family. We read Marie Howe’s “Gretel, from a Sudden Clearing” and Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s […]
- BY: Russell Price
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This week the young viking writers went on a side quest outdoors to find inspiration in the courtyard of their school building. Before venturing outside, we discussed “why” nature poetry and what does nature […]
- BY: Mayda del Valle
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Today we wrapped up our residency at Latino Youth High School with both our English Class and After School Poetry Club by watching some videos of some significant spoken word poets. I introduced students […]
- BY: Mayda del Valle
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I’ve reached the end of my residency here at Perez, and another school year draws to a close. For our last class, we celebrated by having an in-class poetry reading, where everyone had a […]
- BY: Cai Sherley
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This past Thursday was bittersweet, as it marked the final session of Hyde Park’s 2025 poetry club. The poets were presented with a chapbook, full of their favorite poems written over the year. The […]
- BY: Teresa Dzieglewicz
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We had our final poetry party today. It was so hard to say goodbye but we had so much fun! We passed out our final poetry books that we’ve been working so hard on […]
- BY: Joy Young
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This week was the 10th and final poetry session for Twain 5th graders for the school year. Since, I know the 5th graders are fantastic artists, to celebrate our last day we explored concrete […]
- BY: Joy Young
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This week for our 10th and last day of our residency, we celebrated with color. Together we read and discussed the poem “What You Need for Painting,” by Raymond Carter, based on a letter […]
- BY: Teresa Dzieglewicz
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Today, I made a visit to Swift to work with small groups on their revisions for their final poems in our poetry books. We had a great time being able to work in a […]
- BY: Teresa Dzieglewicz
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Today we started working toward our final poetry books! We got to choose a poem that we love to continue working on. We talked together about our goals, including using shorter lines to make […]
- BY: Madison Mae Parker
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For our last session at Smyser, we broke into groups to create performance pieces based off our poems! Each poet contributed one poem to the group. Every group had to include the following in […]
- BY: Joy Young
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O-School students celebrated the last day of our residency this week. Together we ate delicious Dum Dum suckers, while each group created Ars Poetica poems, poems that describe the art of writing poetry. I […]
- BY: Madison Mae Parker
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This week at Smyser, we spent time editing and revising our poems! We talked about how with most things, you have to keep doing it to get better: soccer practice, theater rehearsals, returning to […]
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