Past Events

Join us for the kickoff of the William Carlos Williams Conference with a plenary lecture by Tara Betts.

All ages are welcome to the opening of Monica Ong: Planetaria, as we explore the sky from a female perspective.

All are welcome to an online poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the role of punctuation in poetry. The group will...

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online...

Join us for a live performance of songs from LYNX Project’s debut album, beautiful small things.

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In May, in celebration of Monica Ong: Planeteria, we will read and discuss Silent Anatomies by Monica Ong....

Join us for an award ceremony honoring the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Class of 2020.

All are welcome to an online poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore ghazals, intricate lyrics that Agha Shahid Ali described as...

This annual free event for youth and their caregivers features a reading with Pat Mora, a cartonera-making workshop, poetry writing activities, crafts, a poetry scavenger hunt, and more!

Join us for a live in-person reading with J K Chukwu, Momo-dono, GoldGrrrl, and Alia Shahzad.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “The Scientific Lens: An Exploration of Science-Inspired Poetry,” created and led by Bethanie Humphreys. No prior experience in science...

Join us as we illuminate Aimé Césaire’s poetry, plays, and impact through a robust discussion on Césaire’s play, The Tragedy of King Christophe, translated from the French by Paul Breslin...

Join us for a live performance of I Did, Did I? by Liza Sobel, libretto by Liza Sobel and Gina Elia, performed by The Zafa Collective.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we investigate repetition, the recurrence of the same, which Roethke named “the...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In April, we will read and discuss Customs by Solmaz Sharif.  Registration is required for this event. To register,...

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on poets experimenting within and through the sonnet form. The...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Poetic Erasure,” with Leigh Sugar.  In this session, we will explore poetic erasure as both form and process/noun and verb....

Join us for a live in-person reading with Madeleine LeCesne, Michell Nicole Miller, Nat Pyper, and Ang Zheng.

Join Alida Miranda-Wolff for the launch of her book on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last