Poetry in Chicago through July 22nd
From The Poetry Foundation
GREEN MILL
Uptown Poetry Slam
Sunday, July 15, 7:00 PM
Green Mill
4802 North Broadway Avenue
$6 cover
POETRY FOUNDATION
Toddler Poemtime
Wednesday, July 18, 11:00 AM
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free admission
THE CAFE GALLERY
Featuring Lucia Blinn
Wednesday, July 18, 7:00 PM
Gallery Cabaret
2020 North Oakley Avenue
Free admission
DANNY’S TAVERN READING SERIES
Olivia Cronk, Philip Sorenson, and Daniel Borzutzky
Wednesday, July 18, 7:30 PM
Danny’s Tavern
1951 West Dickens Street
Free admission
GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX
Cross-Cultural Latino/a
Wednesday, July 18, 7:30 PM
La Bruquena restaurant
2726 West Division Street
Free admission
NEXT OBJECTIVISTS
“For oh, for oh, the hobby horse is forgot”: Navigating a Poetics of the Outside in Utopias & Queer Discontentment, part II
Thursday, July 19, 7:00 PM
Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
Free admission
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY
Poetry Club
Friday, July 20, 10:00 AM
Jefferson Park Library
5363 West Lawrence Avenue
Free admission for students entering grades 4-6
QUIMBY’S
Bad Zine, Everyone’s Fault
Friday, July 20, 7:00 PM
Quimby’s
1854 West North Avenue
Free admission
TALL GRASS WRITER’S GUILD
Featuring Phyllis Babbs, March Darin, Robert Klein Engler, Robert Lawrence, Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick, Pat Gallant, Kathleen McElligott and Martin Altman
Friday, July 20, 7:00 PM
The Book Cellar
4736 North Lincoln Avenue
Free admission
THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK
Hemingway Birthday Celebration featuring a talk by John Barr
Saturday, July 21, 6:00 PM
Hemingway Museum
200 North Oak Park Avenue
Oak Park, Illinois
Tickets $20-25
WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST
Sappho’s Salon
Saturday, July 21, 7:30 PM
Women & Children First
5233 N. Clark Street
Cover $7 - $10
WOMAN MADE GALLERY
Poets Who Open Doors featuring Kristy Bowen, Shanny Jean Maney, Jennifer Karmin, Emily Rose Kahn–Sheahan, Johanny Vazquez Paz, and Susan Yount
Sunday, July 22, 1:30 PM
Woman Made Gallery
685 North Milwaukee Avenue
Free admission
RHINO POETRY
Poetry Forum led by Allison Joseph
Sunday, July 22, 1:30 PM
Evanston Public Library
1703 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, Illinois
$5 - $10 donation
GREEN MILL
Uptown Poetry Slam
Sunday, July 22, 7:00 PM
Green Mill
4802 North Broadway Avenue
$6 cover
STORYSTUDIO CHICAGO
Creative Writing for Teachers
Wednesdays, July 11 - 25
StoryStudio Chicago
4043 North Ravenswood Avenue #222
Nonmembers $160; members $150
POETRY MAGAZINE
Featherproof Book Fort
July 13 - 15
Pitchfork Music Festival
Chicago’s Union Park
Festival pass required