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!

Join us for a reading with poet Willie Perdomo. Perdomo is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (1996), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In December, we read and discuss In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail. Space is limited to 15 participants....

All are welcome to a discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney.  In December, we explore syntax, the structure poet Ellen Bryant Voigt argues is “the essential drama...

Read, discuss, and write poems with Maggie Queeney of the Poetry Foundation and the Jesse Brown VA Palliative Care Team. Monthly meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of every...

The Poetry Foundation Library is open to the public prior to our December Open Door Reading. Browse our collection of more than 30,000 books of poetry, including 2,500 chapbooks, and a...

The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland writing program instructors...

Join us for a reading and conversation about poetry, film and art between Stéphane Bouquet and Valérie Mrejen. They will be joined by translators Lindsay Turner and Katie Shireen Assef. Stéphane Bouquet is...

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!

Celebrate the opening of A.R. Ammons: Watercolors with a presentation by Ammons scholar Elizabeth Mills who will discuss the works in the exhibition, relating them to Ammons’s poetic strategies.