Events

Children ages two to five are welcome to a weekly story time that introduces poetry through fun, interactive readings and crafts. Join us in the Library every Wednesday morning!

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In January, we read and discuss Ghost Of  by Diana Khoi Nguyen. Space is limited to 15 participants. To...

Get a sneak peek of Dances with Words and Music before it premieres at the 2019 Ravinia Festival. Emmy Award-nominated choreographer Venetia Stifler and her dance company, Concert Dance Inc.,...

All are welcome to a discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney, Library Coordinator. In January, we will explore the form of the English sonnet, a lyrical, intricately...

All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney, Library Coordinator. This poetry discussion and creative writing workshop explores and celebrates the cadaver, those...

Join us to celebrate 2018 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize winners, Thiahera Nurse and Andrew E. Colarusso, for the launch of their chapbooks Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone...

Take home a piece of Chicago history as the Poetry Foundation releases the new catalog for Jun Fujita: Oblivion, a book that extends the Poetry Foundation’s 2017 exhibition. The first...

Immerse yourself in an evening of poetry with one of Harvard Law School’s 50 Women Inspiring Change and author of Registers of Illuminated Villages and Seam, Tarfia Faizullah. Her poems...

Champions from Chicagoland high schools recite classic and contemporary poems for the chance to represent Illinois at the Poetry Out Loud National Finals in Washington, DC, in April 2019. Poetry...

Celebrate the opening of The Lushness of Print, featuring the ekphrastic partnership between Samiya Bashir’s Poetry Salon and Letra Chueca Press, a woman- and Latinx-owned printing press that uses traditional...