DePaul University Poetry Reading
Thursday, October 27, 2022
5-6 p.m.
DePaul University
Schmitt Academic Center (SAC) 161
2320 N. Kenmore Avenue
Chicago, IL
DePaul University professors feature prominently in Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, and they will gather together to showcase their contributions on Thursday, October 27, starting at five p.m. Refreshments will be served. Tara Betts, Chris Solis Green, Richard Jones, Coya Paz, and Mark Turcotte, along with editor Donald G.…
Afterwords Chicago: Global Poetry Night
Friday, October 21, 2022
5-7 p.m. CDT
After-Words Bookstore
11 East Illinois
Chicago, IL 60611
“Afterwards Chicago, Global Poetry Night,” was a hybrid poetry reading event that will happen at After-Words Bookstore on Friday, October 21, starting at five p.m. Central Time. Live performers at the large reading room stage alternate with remote poets seen on a large screen using Zoom. Eight local Chicago poets, including Wherever…
Rick Kogan: Fuller Award for lifetime achievement
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
7-9 p.m.
Chopin Theatre
1543 W. Division Street
Chicago, IL 60642
Registration now open.
Rick Kogan started working as a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times at the age of 16 and for the past half century has continued to turn out bylines in our city’s most important daily papers. Among his dozen nonfiction books, Rick’s true crime story, Everybody Pays: Two Men, One Murder and the Price of Truth, co-authored with Maurice…
37th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest
Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
South Dearborn Street
from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street
Printers Row Lit Fest returns, and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame will have a tent for the second straight year. The Chicago Poetry Center, After Hours Press, Rhino, Chicago Quarterly Review, Guild Literary Complex, and Stories Matter Foundation will all be under our tent, along with an author table that includes Melanie Weiss, Amerlia Forczak,…
Our City: Chicago’s Poetic Landscape
Saturday, September 10, 2022
2-3:30 p.m.
Printers Row Lit Fest
Poetry Foundations Stage
South Dearborn Street, just south of Ida B. Wells
Panel Discussion at Printers Row Lit Fest. Moderator Carlo Rotella, a prominent scholar who wrote the foreword to Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, led a discussion about our city and its artists. The event included readings, as well as a question and answer session with the audience. Panelists were Daniel Bortzutzky, Ugochi…
Mercy Street Reading Series
Sunday, August 7, 2022
6 p.m.
via Zoom
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdeivrDoiE9WRL9bvpZ0UF6LPcJ6XHDze
The Mercy Street Reading Series, now in its second year, is already one of the best regular poetry events in Chicago. For this early August edition, Ruben Quesada assembled an all-star cast to represent Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry. Campbell McGrath, Achy Obejas, Patricia Smith, Al DeGenova and Luis J. Rodriguez each read…
Youth Writing Workshop in Chinatown
Monday, July 25, 2022
1 p.m.
Chinese American Service League
2141 S. Tan Ct.
Chicago, IL 60616
Story Matters Foundation and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame teamed up with CASL for a free youth writing workshop. Sahar Mustafah led participants through simple craft lessons as they used stories to explore facets of their personal experiences. Several Chicago poems from Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry were incorporated in…
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP FOR YOUTH WITH ACCLAIMED WRITER TARA BETTS
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
TBA
The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago
6400 S. Kimbark Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, in partnership with Stories Matter Foundation and The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, will offer a one-day workshop with acclaimed Southside author, poet and educator Tara Betts. The workshop, open to young people between the ages of 12 and 18, expects to draw attendees from the greater Woodlawn community.…
Sunday Reading Series
Sunday, July 17, 2022
7 p.m.
The Hungry Brain
2319 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL
The Sunday Reading Series at Chicago's iconic Hungry Brain will feature four readers from Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry. Simone Muench and Kenyatta Rogers host this memorable evening of iconic poets including Kristiana Rae Colón, Viola Lee, Tara Betts, and Rachel Galvin.
Chicago’s Poetic History
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
6 p.m.
Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60614
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Author, critic and scholar Richard Guzman leads a panel discussion that ties history and verse, with several contributors to the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s new poetry anthology. Panelists include 2015 Fuller Award winner Haki Madhubuti, along with poets Vida Cross, Yolanda Nieves, and Virginia Bell. The event is free and open to the…
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