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Kicking off our 50th with lots of press! Chicago Reader – Featured Article on CPC’s Legacy and Current Moment NBC – 3 Minute Feature on NBC Chicago for Exhibit and Event Poetry Foundation: Essay […]
- BY: Leslie Reese
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For our 3rd session, I brought in containers of things for Twain 3rd graders to smell: (1) fresh lemon zest with lemon juice; (2) almond extract; (3) dried and fresh orange peel; (4) vanilla […]
- BY: Joy Young
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For our 3rd week of poetry, Twain 4th graders thought about memorable places they have visited, whether it’s in their neighborhood or as far away as Mexico. Travel is about adventure and a discovery […]
- BY: Fabian Nunez
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CPC is facilitating three poetry workshops for middle and high school students at the Boys & Girls Club in Bridgeport! Musu Bangura, Timothy David Rey, and Madison Mae Parker are the Poets in Residence […]
- BY: Joy Young
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What’s your favorite day of the week? What’s your least favorite? Why are some days better than others? These are the questions I asked this past Tuesday for my second week with Twain 4th […]
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The Chicago Poetry Center Board invites you to join us at Bigger Table: Write & Give Back – a thematic writing fundraiser series to support poetry programming at Chicago Public Schools. Date & Time: November […]
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The Chicago Poetry Center Board invites you to join us at Bigger Table: Write & Give Back – a thematic writing fundraiser series to support poetry programming at Chicago Public Schools. Date & Time: […]
- BY: Joy Young
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The Poetry Out Loud will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2025. The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest is a national program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through analysis, […]
- BY: Fabian Nunez
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The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop at Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena. Our November featured readers are Monica Rico and Kush Thompson. The […]
- BY: Leslie Reese
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Twain 3rd graders were eager to know what we would be doing for our 2nd session. We talked about things that poets do, such as pay attention to details and pay attention to how […]
- BY: Leslie Reese
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It was my pleasure to return to Twain Elementary to meet with fresh groups of 3rd graders for our fall poetry residency. Students were curious and ready to begin our adventure into reading, discussing, […]
- BY: Joy Young
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I’m excited to be back teaching 4th graders this year at Twain Elementary. To get to know this new group of students, the theme for our first session on Tuesday was self-portraits. Artists create […]
- BY: Poetry Center
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At the Chicago Poetry Center, we believe that poetry is for everyone: children and adults, career writers and hobbyists, people with creative writing degrees and folks who write privately in their journals. We also […]
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You’ve written poems. Now it’s time find your readers. But where to start? Join the Chicago Poetry Center as poet and editor Lisa Low shares advice on finding the right publications your poetry, writing […]
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The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop at Haymarket House (800 W. Buena) hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell. The Blue Hour reading […]
- BY: B Sampson
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The Chicago Poetry Center board, staff, and community at large are mourning a massive loss in our community, the passing of Mary Ellen Woods. Mary Ellen Woods joined the Chicago Poetry Center board in […]
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A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center Closing Event* Saturday, September 1411 AM – 12:30 PMPoetry Foundation: 61 E. Superior St. *Registration Required! Please register here. Celebrate the last day of […]
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We hope that you’ll join us in Albany Park this month at ECOS: A Chicago Latine Poetry Festival. The fest celebrates Chicago’s relationship with and influence on Latine poetry. It echoes (“ecos’ in Spanish) the […]
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The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell. The Blue Hour reading includes a brief open mic followed […]
- BY: Poetry Center
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Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Poetry Foundation for the exhibition opening of A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center. We had a blast celebrating CPC’s 50th anniversary […]
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Celebrating Our Historic Collection and Retrospective Exhibit Open Until September 14 🙌🏾 A Conversation with B. Metzger Sampson Executive Director B. Metzger Sampson sat down with writer James D. Sullivan to discuss the origins […]
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Poetry @ The Green at 320 continues for the summer season this August! The Chicago Poetry Center and The Green at 320 S. Canal are proud to host this free, weekly reading and open […]
- BY: Joy Young
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This past Wednesday, I finished my 5-week summer residency with the Terrapins and the Dreamers at the O-School. I created a chapbook for our time together as a final project. While listening to music, […]
- BY: Joy Young
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This was my 5th and final week at the O-School, where I had back-to-back days (Tuesday/Wednesday) to finish our summer residency. Since, the Terrapins and the Dreamers students love music, I decided on Tuesday […]
- BY: Joy Young
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For our 4th week at the O-School we explored how to use our five senses to recall memories. I passed around different objects to students that represented the five senses, a seashell (touch), a […]
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