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Chicago Reader covers CPC’s “Shelter in Poetry” virtual support to CPS students

The Chicago Reader covers our “Shelter in Poetry” transition to virtual support of CPS students: https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicago-poetry-center-virtual-lessons/Content?oid=80446896 Of particular note is the stellar job the CPC Poets in Residence have done in making this pivot. […]

Black Lives Matter: A Statement of Solidarity

A poem written from home this past month by one of our student poets: Jaylon speaks plainly to the need for system-wide truth, reconciliation, and justice, from 5th grade. The Chicago Poetry Center stands […]

Education Spotlight

Good news from: Students Write Poems from Home   Just one week after CPS official remote learning days began, we were able to transition our school-based poetry residencies to virtual programs. That means we’re […]

May Reading Series Spotlight: Tarnynon Onumonu

Tarnynon Onumonu Tarnynon (Ty-yuh-nuh) Onumonu was born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago, IL and is extremely proud of and humbled by her southside citizenship and West […]

CPC Creative Literacy Residencies Pivot to At Home Learning for Chicago Public Schools

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Elizabeth M Sampson beth@poetrycenter.org Chicago Poetry Center Creative Literacy Residencies Pivot to At Home Learning for Chicago Public Schools Chicago, IL – May 18, 2020 – Pivoting with Chicago Public […]

April Reading Series Spotlight: Larry O. Dean

Larry O. Dean Larry O. Dean has been a Chicago Poetry Center teaching artist since 2003, currently at Skinner West Elementary in the West Loop and initially at James Shield Elementary in Brighton Park. […]

March Reading Series Spotlight: Joy Young

Joy Young Joy Young is a Chicago-based poet and educator, who holds a BA in Fiction from Columbia College and MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University. Her work has appeared in Poetry […]

Remembering Lisel Mueller

Today we say goodbye to one of our founders, Lisel Mueller. Lisel Mueller lived an extraordinary life. She and her family fled Nazi Germany when Lisel was 15 years old. She became a poet, […]

Reading Series: February 2020

February 2020 Reading Marty McConnell and Maya Marshall February 20th, 7-8 pm The Martin   Marty McConnell is part of the vanguard of poets fusing and refusing and queering the delineations between literary and […]

Six Points Reading Series: November 2019

November Six Points Reading Meg Day and Jonathan Mendoza November 15th, 7-8 pm Semicolon Bookstore Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street, 2014), winner of the Barrow Street […]

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