Past Events

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In January, we will read and discuss How to Communicate by John Lee Clark. Registration is required for...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Making dragons out of maps: How to use research in poetry,” created and led by Samira Asma-Sadeque. For this workshop,...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on the abecedarian, a poem organized by the sequence of...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on organic structures. The group will explore a wide variety...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In December, we will read and discuss The Glass Constellation by Arthur Sze.  To allow for more readers to...

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on asemic writing, a type of composition that uses lines...

Join us for a live in-person reading with Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny, Kemi Alabi, Benji Hart, and blake nemec. The Open Door series highlights creative relationships in Chicago, including mentorship and...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this special process session, we focus on our relationships to fear and failure, and...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Hymns, Thingness, Broth,” created and led by Chessy Normile.  “The world had been created to comprehend itself/ as matter”  -from Brenda...

This event will feature a conversation between Diana Solís and exhibition curators Oscar Arriola and Nicole Marroquin about individual works in the exhibition.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on the ode, a lyric poem of address, praise, and...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In November, we will read and discuss More Than Meat and Raiment by Angela Jackson.  Registration is required for...

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online...

Join us for a live in-person reading with Arnold Kemp, AJ McClenon, Ayanah Moor, and isra rene. The Open Door series highlights creative relationships in Chicago, including mentorship and collaboration. Arnold...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we will read and discuss a wide range of poems that use...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In November, we will read and discuss Somebody Else Sold the World by Adrian Matejka. Matejka will attend. Registration...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion, contemplative practice, and creative writing workshop, “Writing the Body,” with Antoinette Cooper. The body—whether individual or collective—are monuments, memory, and, at times, mystery. In...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore surreal poetry practices and a wide range of surreal poems...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, "A Beloved Face That's Missing: The Poet's Self Portrait," created and led by Sara Elkamel. "for her burning face in my...