Past Events

Join us for the first public reading by the 2023 cohort of Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellows.

Join us for a screening and conversation about Journey(s), an in-person installment of VS Presents with Saaret E Yoseph.

Join us for a virtual reading celebrating the Forms & Features poets.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on metaphor, a comparative device that makes meaning through the...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In October, we will read and discuss suddenly we by Evie Shockley.

Join us for an Open Door reading featuring Chris Aldana with Czaerra Galicinao Ucol, and Dior J. Stephens with jason b. crawford.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Doorways: Demystifying Poetic Turns”, created and led by Oliver Brickman.

Join us for a Crip Talk performance and discussion with JJJerome Ellis.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore hybrid poetry, liminal forms that trouble, cross, and blur literary...

Join us for a workshop production of Benji Hart’s World After This One.

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...