Past Events

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In July, we will read and discuss Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves. Registration is required for this event. To...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session of Forms and Features, we focus on rhythm, the audible pattern formed...

All are welcome to to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop,  “The Uses of Anger”: Writing Our Wellness With Love, Rage, and Healing, with Cecilia Caballero.  In this generative poetry workshop,...

Join us for the virtual Summer Poetry Teachers’ Institute: Poetry Transforms for keynotes, panels, performances, and breakout sessions on current events of interest to teachers in K–12 and community college...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the prose poem, a hybrid composition that takes the appearance...

Ragdale in Chicago celebrates a new Poetry fellowship at Ragdale, sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.

All are welcome to this in-person monthly space dedicated to reading, discussing, and writing poetry.

All are welcome to an online poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore zuihitsu, a hybrid Japanese form that blurs lyric and...

All are welcome to a discussion and workshop on visual poetry, created and led by Andrew Venell. In this session we will examine the shared characteristics of images and text, exploring...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In June, we will read and discuss Plans for Sentences by Renee Gladman. Registration is required for this event....

Join us for the kickoff of the William Carlos Williams Conference with a plenary lecture by Tara Betts.

All ages are welcome to the opening of Monica Ong: Planetaria, as we explore the sky from a female perspective.

All are welcome to an online poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the role of punctuation in poetry. The group will...

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

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 performance of songs from LYNX Project’s debut album, beautiful small things.

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In May, in celebration of Monica Ong: Planeteria, we will read and discuss Silent Anatomies by Monica Ong....

Join us for an award ceremony honoring the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Class of 2020.

All are welcome to an online poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore ghazals, intricate lyrics that Agha Shahid Ali described as...

This annual free event for youth and their caregivers features a reading with Pat Mora, a cartonera-making workshop, poetry writing activities, crafts, a poetry scavenger hunt, and more!