Past Events
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- Performances
Peace Concert
At Capacity-In PersonPoets Pádraig Ó Tuama and E. Ethelbert Miller join the Fulcrum Point New Music Project for their 27th annual Peace Concert at Fourth Presbyterian Church.
- Celebrations-HybridA hybrid poetry reading featuring community participants from the Poetry Foundation’s Forms & Features workshop series.
- Workshops & Discussions
Forms & Features with Aishvarya Arora
At Capacity-VirtualA generative writing workshop, “Let Me Turn Towards You: On the Possibilities of the Second Person,” created and led by Aishvarya Arora
- Workshops & Discussions
Library Book Club: Natalie Scenters-Zapico
At Capacity-VirtualA discussion of My Perfect Cognate by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
- Performances-Poetry FoundationA presentation of avery r. young’s Chicago Poet Laureate project, Chicago Soul Poem: A City That Writes Together.
- Workshops & Discussions
Forms & Features: Image
At Capacity-VirtualThe final series of generative workshops in the Forms & Features series with Maggie Queeney, celebrating the image, the sensual description evoking the physical world… - Workshops & Discussions
Library Book Club: C.D. Wright
At Capacity-VirtualA discussion of The Essential C.D. Wright by C.D. Wright
- Readings & Lectures-Poetry FoundationA poetry reading on Trans Day of Remembrance with Temperance Aghamohammadi, River Coello, jzl jmz, féi iká shumarí, and Rose Zinnia.
- Workshops & Discussions-Poetry FoundationA generative poetry workshop on found poetry, created and led by River Coello.
- Workshops & Discussions
Forms & Features with Jezmina Von Thiele
At Capacity-VirtualA generative writing workshop, “Romani Poetics, Oral Tradition, and Narrative,” created and led by Jezmina Von Thiele
- Readings & Lectures-HybridA poetry reading and presentation on the distribution of poetry books in African countries.
- Workshops & Discussions-Poetry FoundationA monthly gathering to read and write in community
- Workshops & Discussions
Forms & Features with Imogen Osborne
At Capacity-VirtualA generative writing workshop, “Aporia: Towards a Poetics of Questioning,” created and led by Imogen Osborne.
- Workshops & Discussions-VirtualThis generative poetry workshop led by Maggie Queeney explores the villanelle, an intricate, rhymed French form rooted in Italian folk songs.
- Workshops & Discussions-Poetry FoundationA generative art-making workshop, “Waves in Your Atmosphere,” with Victoria Martinez.
- Workshops & Discussions-Poetry FoundationA generative poetry workshop, “The Code to the Ode: A Celebratory Stance in Your Poems,” created and led by Allison Joseph
- Readings & Lectures-Poetry FoundationA poetry reading featuring Martín Espada alongside Carlos Cumpián, Faylita Hicks, and Allison Joseph.
- Readings & Lectures-Poetry FoundationA public reading featuring the recipients of the 2025 Pegasus Awards: Rigoberto González, Amy Stolls, and Kazim Ali.
- Workshops & Discussions-Poetry FoundationA monthly gathering to read and write in community
- Workshops & Discussions
Forms & Features with Olga Maslova
At Capacity-VirtualA generative writing workshop, “The Algebra of the Aha Moment,” created and led by Olga Maslova
- Celebrations-Poetry FoundationA Rapbrary-curated evening of poetry and music performances by Wallace, J Bambii, Darius Caffey, and Mason Pippenger.
