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50% Off Rare & Limited Broadsides in the Poetry Center Store this Cyber Monday!

This holiday season you can support the Poetry Center of Chicago while getting your shopping done! On Cyber Monday PCC is offering 50% off our large collection of limited edition broadsides! Have you decided […]

Poetry Center of Chicago Joins National #GivingTuesday Movement

This Tuesday, be thankful for poetry in schools, for creative literacy opportunities in underserved communities and for lines like these from our students: I’m from the city lights / Streaming out in the night […]

Hands On Stanzas, live at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra!

We could not be more excited about our collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! This March, a few of our students will be performing their original poetry live on stage with Members of the […]

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I’M FROM THE CITY LIGHTS / STREAMING OUT IN THE NIGHT / AND HUGE SKYSCRAPERS / TOWERING OVER THE LAKE – MELISSA E., 7TH GRADE POET