Past Events

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In September, we will read and discuss Time by Etel Adnan. Registration is required for this event. To allow...

Join us for a Poetry Off the Shelf event with Ben Okri.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this installation of our series on process, we focus on revision philosophies and practices.

Join us for a night of enchantment as the Poetry Foundation transforms into Herman’s Lounge for a one night only jazz cabaret.

Join us for a conversation with Poetry’s four women guest editors at the exhibition opening for Harriet Monroe & the Open Door.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Scruffy Hospitality & Gardens Full of Toads: Poems of Lived-in Places,” created and led by Sarah Ann Winn.

Join us for a virtual reading celebrating the 2023 Forms & Features Visiting Teaching Artists.

Join us for the kickoff to our Fall 2023 season with a celebration of Chicago’s Poet Laureate, avery r. young, at Harold Washington Library.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore ecopoetry, a species of nature poetry that explores the interactions...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Voicing Heirlooms: Sensing Home with the Personal Archive,” created and led by Nathan Xavier Osorio. In this session, we use...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In July, we will read and discuss Hydra Medusa by Brandon Shimoda.  Registration is required for this event. To allow...

Join us for a day of family friendly activities and a mainstage performance by Jason Reynolds, with Q&A moderated by Dr. Eve L. Ewing!

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In July, we will read and discuss Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi.  Registration...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore simile, a comparative construction that creates meaning through likeness and...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Prose Poetry as Rebellion,” created and led by Wendy Chen. In this session, we consider the prose poem and its...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore erasure, a method of poetic composition via erasing or blacking...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore tanka, an ancient Japanese mood poem often composed in sequence...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In June, we will read and discuss Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks. Registration is required for this event. To allow...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Poetry as Apocalypse,” created and led by Giulia Ottavia Frattini.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 106th birthday—known as “Brooks Day” in Chicago, we will read...