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  • Readings & Lectures
    Thursday, October 20th, 7:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT

    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...

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  • Event
    Thursday, October 20th, 5:00 PM CDT–7:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to the opening of the exhibition Diana Solís: Encuentros, Photographs of Chicago Poetry Communities, 1978–1994.

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  • Readings & Lectures
    Saturday, October 15th, 2PM CDT–3PM CDT

    Join us for a live recording of A Collaborative Close reading of poems by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, hosted by Al Filreis and featuring guest poets Laynie Browne, Lisa Fishman, and Gabriel...

    Clockwise from top left: Laynie Browne stands framed by a bamboo grove, in a black dress, gazing at the camera with relaxed smile, head tilted to the side, long brown hair falling in waves. Al Filreis stands in front of a dark window, in a black shirt, wi
  • Readings & Lectures
    Thursday, October 13th, 7:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT

    Join us for Dreaming Ages, an in-person installment of the Open Door series with Zachary Cahilll, Ama Codjoe, Calvin Forbes, Maud Lavin, Sungjae Lee, and Jenny Lin. The Open Door...

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  • Workshops & Discussions
    Saturday, October 8th, 12:00 PM CDT–2:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to this in-person monthly space dedicated to reading, discussing, and writing poetry. Led by Contextos author Tim Cox and Maggie Queeney of the Poetry Foundation, we will...

  • Readings & Lectures
    Thursday, October 6th, 7PM CST–8PM CST

    Join us for a poetry reading and conversation with Maya Marshall and Nicole Homer in partnership with Haymarket Books.

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  • Workshops & Discussions
    Tuesday, October 4th, 6:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT
    Thursday, October 6th, 10:00 AM CDT–12:00 PM CDT
    Tuesday, October 11th, 2:00 PM CDT–4:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session we explore persona, a dramatic, mask-like character the poet creates, assumes, and...

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  • Readings & Lectures
    Friday, September 30th, 6PM CDT–7:30PM CDT

    Join us at Illinois Humanities for a multimedia poetry event with Sylvia Ewing in partnership with the Center for Black Verse.

    Sylvia Ewing, a smiling black woman with gray braids
  • Workshops & Discussions
    Friday, September 30th, 12:00 PM CDT–1:30 PM CDT

    All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In September, we will read and discuss All the Blood Involved in Love by Maya Marshall.  Registration is required...

  • Workshops & Discussions
    Monday, September 26th, 6:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT
    Tuesday, September 27th, 2:00 PM CDT–4:00 PM CDT
    Wednesday, September 28th, 10:00 AM CDT–12:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session we explore the fragment, defined by Anne Janowitz as “a partial whole—either...

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  • Workshops & Discussions
    Thursday, September 22nd, 6:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “All About Self Love,” created and led by Christiana Castillo.  In the workshop “All About Self Love,” participants will be...

  • Workshops & Discussions
    Saturday, September 17th, 12:00 PM CDT–2:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to this in-person monthly space dedicated to reading, discussing, and writing poetry. Led by Contextos author Tim Cox and Maggie Queeney of the Poetry Foundation, we will...

  • Readings & Lectures
    Thursday, September 15th, 7:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT

    Join us for a virtual reading featuring the 2022 Forms & Features Visiting Teaching Artists: Megan Fernandes, Bethanie Humphreys, Leonora Simonovis, Leigh Sugar, Andrew Venell, and Jorrell Watkins.

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  • Kids & YA
    Saturday, September 10th, 10:00 AM CDT–10:30 AM CDT
    Saturday, September 17th, 10:00 AM CDT–10:30 AM CDT
    Saturday, September 24th, 10:00 AM CDT–10:30 AM CDT
    Saturday, October 1st, 10:00 AM CDT–10:30 AM CDT
    Saturday, October 8th, 10:00 AM CDT–10:30 AM CDT
    Saturday, October 15th, 10:00 AM CDT–10:30 AM CDT
    Saturday, October 22nd, 10:00 AM CDT–10:30 AM CDT
    Saturday, October 29th, 10:00 AM CDT–10:30 AM CDT

    Weekly storytime that introduces poetry through fun, interactive readings, songs, and art projects!

  • Readings & Lectures
    Thursday, September 8th, 7:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT

    Join us for a live in-person reading with Jared Brown, Stevie Cisneros Hanley, Briana Lynn, and Mila Methvin. The Open Door series highlights creative relationships in Chicago, including mentorship and...

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  • Workshops & Discussions
    Tuesday, September 6th, 2:00 PM CDT–4:00 PM CDT
    Wednesday, September 7th, 10:00 AM CDT–12:00 PM CDT
    Tuesday, September 13th, 6:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session we explore tone, a complex of attitudes toward the poem’s subject and...

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  • Workshops & Discussions
    Friday, August 26th, 12:00 PM CDT–1:30 PM CDT

    All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In August, we will read and discuss The Maybe-Bird by Jennifer Elise Foerster . Registration is required for this...

  • Workshops & Discussions
    Tuesday, August 23rd, 10:00 AM CDT–12:00 PM CDT
    Monday, August 29th, 6:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT
    Tuesday, August 30th, 10:00 AM CDT–12:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the haibun, an ancient Japanese form that fuses prose and...

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  • Workshops & Discussions
    Saturday, August 6th, 11:00 AM CDT–1:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “The Poetry of Glossolalia,” created and led by Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí. In this session, we will discuss glossolalia as a...

  • Workshops & Discussions
    Tuesday, August 2nd, 6:00 PM CDT–8:00 PM CDT
    Wednesday, August 3rd, 10:00 AM CDT–12:00 PM CDT
    Saturday, August 6th, 2:00 PM CDT–4:00 PM CDT

    All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on our voices, on and off the page. The group...

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