ECOS: A Chicago Latine Poetry Festival
Free poetry festival with bilingual Spanish and English events and activities in River North, Pilsen, Humboldt Park, and Albany Park.
Current Exhibition
A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center
Celebrating Chicago Poetry Center’s five historic decades, this exhibition will feature 50 broadsides, 50 iconic vintage poetry event posters, archival materials and ephemera, and the premier of a documentary film A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center.
Upcoming Events
- Readings & Lectures-Poetry Foundation
A poetry reading featuring Daniel Borzutzky, Rae Armantrout, and Forrest Gander.
- Readings & Lectures-Poetry Foundation
A poetry reading and celebration of the small press featuring Kiran Bath, Jennifer Perrine, Rena Rosenwasser, and Metta Sáma.
- Readings & Lectures-Poetry Foundation
A poetry reading featuring Julie Ezelle-Patton, Ed Roberson, Duriel E. Harris, and Dawn Joseph.
- Readings & Lectures-Poetry Foundation
A poetry reading featuring VS. podcast co-host Brittany Rogers and Kush Thompson.
-Poetry FoundationCelebrate the closing of our latest exhibition with a documentary film screening and artist panel.
Celebrations-Poetry FoundationPoet Aram Saroyan and Luftwerk Studio celebrate the opening of the exhibition More Light!
- Workshops & Discussions-In Person
Write a poem with Noel Quiñones from the Chicago Poetry Center team!
- Workshops & Discussions-In Person
Write a poem in the garden with Maya Odim from the Chicago Poetry Center team!
- Readings & LecturesIn Person
Read a poem or listen to friends and neighbors reading poems at this all ages open mic event!
- In Person
Celebrate the opening of the David Hernandez and Salima Rivera Exhibit at Humboldt Park Boathouse
- In Person
Celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Legends Mural with an open mic at the mural!
- Readings & Lectures-In Person
Lecturas de poesia en las galerias de National Museum of Mexican Art
- Readings & Lectures-In Person
Pop-up poetry readings in the National Museum of Mexican Art galleries.
- Kids & YA-In Person
Bring your little ones to the garden for a bilingual, English and Spanish, story hour.
- Readings & Lectures-Poetry Foundation
A Spanish and English poetry reading and celebration featuring Brenda Cárdenas, Davon Clark, Suzi F. Garcia, Achy Obejas, Julian Randall, and Erika L. Sánchez.
- Performances-In Person
Family-friendly live performances by student poets, Marta Collazo, and Julián Martinez with music by Future Rootz.
- Poetry FoundationThe single word poem “lighght,” by Aram Saroyan, is the inspiration for Luftwerk’s site-specific installation at the Poetry Foundation. Saroyan describes his poem, a...
Workshops & DiscussionsForms & Features: Diction
At Capacity-VirtualA discussion and creative workshop dedicated to the language of poetry
- Workshops & Discussions
Forms & Features with Jasmine Dreame Wagner
At Capacity-VirtualA generative poetry workshop, “Observation,” created and led by Jasmine Dreame Wagner
- Readings & Lectures-Virtual
A reading and performance uplifting the creative work of five poets and teaching artists
- Workshops & Discussions-Virtual
A discussion of Cisneros’s latest collection, Woman Without Shame: Poems