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Tickets available for free atchicagohumanitiesfestival.org.
Jacqueline Woodson takes to the stage for a conversation about her life and influences. Brown Girl Dreaming (2014), Woodson’s memoir in verse, has won both a National Book Award for Young People and the Newbery Honor. In 2015, Woodson was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.
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Poet, musician, scholar, prosewriter, and translator, Ciaran Carson was appointed poetry chair at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in 2003. Wake Forest University Press has published 15 of his volumes, including First Language(1994), which won the first-ever TS Eliot Prize, Breaking News (2003), which won the prestigious Forward Prize, and From Elsewhere (2015).
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Join us for Poetry magazine's seasonal party! Celebrate the September, October, and November 2015 issues ofPoetry magazine with contributors, editors, and the poetry curious. Festivities include readings, performances, music, and libations. Featuring readings from Poetry contributorsJohn Beer and Ed Roberson and contributor and 2015 Lilly/Rosenberg Fellow Jamila Woods, with music by avery r young and de deacon board.
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All experience levels are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In November, the book club discusses Patricia Smith’s Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah. Patricia Smith will attend. Space is limited to 15 participants. Please reserve your spot by emailing library@poetryfoundation.org.
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Patricia Smith is the author of six books of poetry, including Blood Dazzler (2008), a chronicle of the human and environmental cost of Hurricane Katrina which was nominated for a National Book Award and Teahouse of the Almighty, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection. Reginald Dwayne Betts is author of the poetry collections Shahid Reads His Own Palm (2010), and Bastards of the Reagan Era (2015).
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An evening of readings and discussion inspired by Gertrude Stein’s November 1934 visit to Chicago, when she read at the Renaissance Society and the Arts Club of Chicago. Featuring Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Liesl Olson, Lyn Hejinian and Patrick Durgin.
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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. November's Open Door Reading presents University of Illinois at Chicago’s Roger Reeves and his student Cristina Correa with Illinois State University’s Francesco Levato and his student Benjamin Busch.
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The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, in co-sponsorship with the Poetry Foundation, will present Haki Madhubuti with its Fuller Award, recognizing Dr. Madhubuti’s outstanding lifetime contributions to literature. Richard Steele will emcee an evening filled with tributes, performances and reflections from Angela Jackson, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Nora Brooks Blakely, Useni Eugene Perkins, Regina Taylor, Runako Jahi, Kelly Norman Ellis, Safisha Madhubuti, and more.
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