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May 20, 2020 · Whether an expert in verse or a poetry novice, these are the hot spots every poet must visit while in Chicago. 1. Poetry Foundation. After Harriet Monroe created Poetry magazine in 1912 as a way to celebrate poets and their craft, the Modern Poetry Association emerged in 1941 to support publication and circulation.
Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a social justice champion, is the unofficial eternal poet laureate of Chicago. As one of the most popular and widely-read poets of her generation and of Chicago's history, Brooks has influenced countless writers, readers, and activists since publishing her first poem at the age ...
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In a sense, Chicago started with a poem. Not the first Chicago—the tar-and-timber town destroyed by the 1871 fire—but the modern city that rose from its ashes in the late 19th century. On October 21, 1892, more than 100,000 people gathered in what was then the largest covered building in the world, the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building in Jack...
In the 1910s, when Harriet Monroe was cranking out the first issues of Poetry, another publication across town, the Chicago Defender, was calling on African-Americans in the Southern states to relocate to Chicago. “In the 1920s and ‘30s, [the publisher, Robert Sengstacke Abbott] was even dubbed the Moses of Black America for the role The Defender p...
If you’ve attended enough events in Chicago over the past seven years, you’ve probably run into a group of poets hanging around with typewriters. Poems While You Wait, founded by Kathleen Rooney and Dave Landsberger, is the kind of thing that would coalesce in the capital of American poetry: on-demand, typewritten poems en plein air. Like most loca...
Many English-language artists, including poets, thought a new approach was needed to capture and comment on this new era, requiring innovation in their own work: the result was called Modernism, the largest, most significant movement of the early 20th century.
POETRY CHICAGO | Facebook. Public group. ·. 557 members. Join group. A social network for poets and readers, poetry events and friendship in Chicago, IL. This group is administered by FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and...
The Chicago Poetry Center provides educational programming to thousands of young people across Chicago and beyond, annually. Our programs include long-term in-school and after-school options as well as one-hour assemblies and short-term workshops.
The scope of the Modern Poetry collection now encompasses poetry written in English from 1900 to the present, with writers ranging from W. H. Auden and Rupert Brooke to William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, and Allen Ginsburg.
