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The Poetry Center of Chicago‘s graduate student reading will take place on Friday, April 3, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Millennium Park Room on the fifth floor of the Chicago Cultural Center. Five graduate students will be reading at this poetry showcase: Teresa McMahon, an MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago; Hannah Keene, an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Joshua A. Fisher, a MA in Writing and Publishing candidate at DePaul; Hannah Brooks-Motl, a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago; and Jim Davis, an MFA candidate at Northwestern. Check… Read Article →

Today is Brooksday, an annual, day-long celebration of the life and legacy of one of Chicago’s literary legends, Gwendolyn Brooks. The Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St., is hosting a free Brooksday celebration running all day from 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The works of Gwendolyn Brooks will be read by a rotation of Chicago writers, including DePaul’s own Achy Obejas, Amina Gautier, Bayo Ojikutu, and Mark Turcotte.  Other readers include Michelle Boone, Rosellen Brown, Calvin Forbes, Reginald Gibbons, Rick Hogan, Haki Madhubuti,  Sandra Opoku, Sara Paretsky, Elise Paschen, Avery R. Young. This event is free and open to the… Read Article →

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