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Join us at the First Friday gallery reception for The Chicago 77exhibition at Poetry Foundation. The evening features include tabletop games, video screenings, and tunes by J. Johari Palacio aka Basis aka Perpetual Rebel aka The Bored Enthusiast—plus refreshments.
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Olvido García Valdés is the author of a dozen collections of poetry, including Y todos estábamos vivos, which won Spain’s National Poetry Prize in 2007. Distinguished Mexican poet and translator Héctor Carreto has won the prestigious Luis Cernuda and Aguascalientes National Poetry prizes.
Co-sponsored by contratiempo, Instituto Cervantes, and DePaul University
Co-sponsored by contratiempo, Instituto Cervantes, and DePaul University
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Tim Seibles is the author of several collections of poetry, includingHurdy-Gurdy, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and was nominated for a 2012 National Book Award.
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Peace! In these troubled times, will we ever achieve peace for ourselves, our families, our community, our world? Hear Iraqi and other Middle Eastern poets describe what peace means to them in their own language.
Co-sponsored with the Iraqi Mutual Aid Society
Co-sponsored with the Iraqi Mutual Aid Society
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A. Van Jordan's collections of poetry include Rise, which won a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was selected for the Book of the Month Club of the Academy of American Poets and
M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, which received the Anisfield-Wolf Award.
M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, which received the Anisfield-Wolf Award.
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The Poetry Foundation partners with Kundiman, a national organization that supports Asian American writers, to present a reading by Kundiman faculty and fellows Li-Young Lee, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Eugenia Leigh, and Helene Achanzar.
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The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. May's Reading features Eastern Illinois University’s Charlotte Pence and her student Derick Ledermann along with DePaul University’s David Welch and his student Laura Wagner.
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Youth come together to share parts of their lives and their perspectives on the world in poetic verse. Literature for All of Us invites you to come join us as they demand songs of peace and ask that we paint them in their true colors.
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The Harriet Reading Series features talks, performances, and readings by poets whose work has appeared on Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog. Writer and critic Jon Leon is the author of The Malady of the Century, Elizabeth Zoë Lindsay Drink Fanta, The Hot Tub, and a number of privately issued titles and special editions.
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Created by acclaimed pianist Inna Faliks, Music/Words is an interdisciplinary performance series that explores the connections between poetry and music in the form of a live recital and reading with prize-winning novelist and poet Jesse Ball.
Co-sponsored with PianoForte Foundation
Co-sponsored with PianoForte Foundation
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