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MARCH 16: CARLINA DUAN & LISA LOW

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.   Each event features two readers from Chicago and beyond, […]

FEBRUARY 16: JAMAAL MAY & OLA FALETI

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.   Each event features two readers from Chicago and beyond, […]

Special Event: CPC x CHM MLK Day Poetry Reading & Workshop

Special Event: CPC x CHM MLK Day Poetry Reading & Workshop The Chicago Poetry Center and the Chicago History Museum are teaming up for MLK Day 2022! This event will feature a reading by […]

JANUARY 19: MATTHEW OLZMANN & ANDY SIA

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.   Each event features two readers from Chicago and beyond, […]

DECEMBER 15: ELANA BELL & RICH VILLAR

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.   Each event features two readers from Chicago and beyond, […]

NOVEMBER 10: VIOLA LEE & SUN YUNG SHIN

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.   Each event features two readers from Chicago and beyond, […]

OCTOBER 20: MAYDA DEL VALLE & HANNAH GAMBLE

    The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.   Each event features two readers from Chicago […]

December Reading Series Spotlight

December Spotlight: The Lights That Never Went Out   2020: What a year. To close it out, the Chicago Poetry Center asked our team–Board members, Poets in Residence, Interns, Curriculum Designers, Programs Manager, and […]

November Reading Series Spotlight: Jyreika Guest

NEWSLETTER VERSION HERE. November Spotlight: Detox   “Proximity” by Jyreika Guest chronicles the experience of the past eight months of living through the Covid-19 pandemic, the poem’s speaker uninfected by the virus biologically, but […]

October Reading Series Spotlight: Frankiem Mitchell

NEWSLETTER VERSION HERE. October Spotlight: Miss America It isn’t known how many tens or hundreds of millennia ago humans created language to wrestle the chaos of thought into shapes that could be separated, spoken […]

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