Poetry Tours

Explore a city’s history through its dynamic poetry, online or on foot!

Washington, DC

Washington, DC

The Washington, DC, Poetry Tour reveals our nation’s capital through the eyes of its great poets, including Archibald MacLeish, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Elizabeth Bishop. From the hallowed halls of the federal buildings to neighborhood side streets, the tour features poems written in and about DC, as well as photographs by poet Thomas Sayers Ellis.

Chicago

Chicago

From the neighborhood library of Gwendolyn Brooks, to the Union Stock Yards where Chicago became Carl Sandburg’s “Hog Butcher for the World,” to the birthplace of slam poetry, the Chicago Poetry Tour explores the city’s history through its dynamic poets and poetry.

Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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