Join the Chicago Tribune for the Midwest's largest literary event! This outdoor festival offers the opportunity to hear authors speak and debate their works. It also features unique booksellers, poetry readings, exhibitors, kids activities, cooking demos, wine tastings, and much more.
Hours are from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on June 6-7.
full schedule and exhibitors list here.
Arts & Poetry Stage
Saturday:
10 a.m. Young Chicago Authors
perform their work
10:30 a.m. Poetry reading with
TODD BOSS, author of
“Yellowrocket”
11 a.m. Poetry reading with
MAURICE KILWEIN GUEVARA,
author of “Poema”
11:30 a.m. Poetry reading with
LUIS HUMBERTO VALADEZ,
author of “What I’m On”
12pm. Poetry reading with
SUSAN WHEELER, author of
"Assorted Poems"
1 p.m. Chicago Public Library’s
Teen Volume Reader’s Theatre
Troupe performance
2:15 p.m. Poetry reading with
The Guild Complex
3:15 p.m. “Take the Mic &
Stage a Slam” MARC KELLY
SMITH, founder of the
International Poetry Slam
Movement
4 p.m. EM Press Showcase with
REGIE GIBSON, CAROLYN
AGUILA, KEVIN COVAL and
MICHAEL KADELA
5 p.m. The Poetry Foundation
presents “The Chicago Poetry
Tour Premiere”
Sunday
10 a.m. TallGrass Writers Guild
11 a.m. NewTown Writers
11:30 a.m. After Hours Press
12pm. Open Books Out Loud:
Creative Writing by Students,
Volunteers and Friends
1 p.m. Gwendolyn Brooks’
Birthday Bash presented by
Third World Press
2 p.m. Poetry reading with
ELISE PASCHEN, author of
“Bestiary” and DON SHARE,
author of “Squandermania”
presented by The Poetry
Foundation
3 p.m. DINA ELENBOGEN,
HELEN DEGEN COHEN,
DEBORAH NODLER ROSEN and
JULIE PARSON-NESBITT read
from “Where We Find
Ourselves
4 p.m. Poetry reading with
JAMES SHEA, author of
“Star in the Eye”
