Events
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 has assembled an all-star cast…
read moreOur City: Chicago’s Poetic Landscape
Saturday, September 10, 2022
TBA
Printers Row Lit Fest
South Dearborn Street, from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street
Poetry Foundation Tent (details TBA)
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, will lead a discussion about our…
read more37th 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…
read moreRick Kogan: Fuller Award for lifetime achievement
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
7-9 p.m.
Chopin Theater
1543 W. Division Street
Chicago, IL 60642

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…
read moreInduction Ceremony (Class of 2021)
Thursday, November 3, 2022
6:30-7:45 p.m.
City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.
Chicago, IL 60660

CLHOF formally inducts Carol Shields, Ethel Payne, and Ray Bradbury. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required. Check back soon for the complete lineup, as well…
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