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Bigger Table: Write & Give Back Series (Virtual Workshop) 

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 9th (Saturday), 7-8:30 […]

Blue Hour November 21

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 […]

Chicago Poetry Center’s 50th Anniversary Virtual Learning Series

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 […]

How to Submit Poems to Literary Journals: Presented by Lisa Low

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 […]

Blue Hour October 16

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 […]

Kicking Off Our 50th with So. Much. Press!

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 […]

Closing Event for A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center

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 […]

ECOS: A Chicago Latine Poetry Festival

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 […]

Blue Hour September 18

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 […]

Check Out These Fun Mentions

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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