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Readings & Lectures

Poesía en Abril: Dialogo entre Poetas (Evento en español/Spanish Program)

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Participa en un dialogo entre los poetas participantes del festival Poesía en Abril.
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Upcoming Exhibition

Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home

Poetry and portraiture provide a rare view into contemporary Mexican American women’s equestrian performance in this exhibition.

Upcoming Events

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  • Illustration of a window overlooking the Chicago Skyline with text that reads "Annie Allen: By Any Art Necessary" and "75th Anniversary"
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    Join us for a multidisciplinary celebration of the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Allen!
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    This generative poetry workshop led by Maggie Queeney explores the use of voice in poetry, including the voice of the speaker, poems that weave together multiple voices…
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    A listening experience of Danielle Davis and Cage Sebastian Pierre’s original mixtape “Songs from the Poets” from Court Theatre’s production of Antigone.
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    A generative poetry workshop, “Writing in The Rhythm,” created and led by Ide Amari Thompson
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    This generative poetry workshop led by Maggie Queeney focuses on the cento, a poem composed entirely of lines and passages from the poems of others.
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    An evening of poetry readings by Ruth Lilly prize winner Kimiko Hahn, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Mónica de la Torre, and Rosalie Moffett.
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    A 25th anniversary celebration with original contributors and editors of Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex.
  • Meg Eden Kyuatt
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    A generative writing workshop, “Writing a Novel in Verse,” created and led by Meg Eden Kuyatt
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    A poetry reading with Midwest-based authors Oliver Baez Bendorf, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Nathanael Jones, Vi Khi Nao, and Ruben Quesada.
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    An online poetry reading featuring community participants from the Poetry Foundation's Forms & Features workshop series.
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