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Spring 2026 Season

Poetry Foundation

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The Poetry Foundation’s spring 2026 season "No one can afford to lose love" (named after a line by CAConrad) goes all in on poetry’s capacity for love in its many forms as a compass for connection, healing, and transformation in a state of emergency.

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Poetry Foundation

Organizer of Spring 2026 Season

The Poetry Foundationrecognizes the power of words to transform lives. We work to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry.The Poetry Foundation hosts a robust schedule of free live events throughout the year. Ranging from poetry readings to staged plays to concerts, events have also included artist collaborations, exhibition openings, musical and other performances. Our current events schedule can be found athttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/events.

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ECOS Latine Poetry Festival

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ECOS: A Chicago Latine Poetry Festival is a three-day series of free, Spanish and English programming celebrating the living connection between Latine poetry and Chicago. September 26-28, 2024

Fall 2023 Season

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Join the Poetry Foundation for weekly poetry events on Thursday nights, plus selected Saturdays. All of our readings are free and open to all ages. For information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation, please email events@poetryfoundation.org.

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Fall 2024 Season: Murmuring Americas

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The Poetry Foundation’s fall events listen for murmuring voices of the Americas against the backbeat of the US election cycle. Join our clamor: September 14-December 5, 2024. Thursday nights 6pm Saturday afternoons 2pm Always free.

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Fall 2025: Facing Life

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"Facing Life I take up this unbridled cry," wrote Magda Portal. The Poetry Foundation’s fall 2025 season Facing Life pursues a double dare: we gather through poetry to face ourselves more honestly, while also facing the world and refusing to look away.

Spring 2023 Season

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Spring 2024 Season

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Join the Poetry Foundation for poetry events on Thursday nights, plus selected Saturday afternoons. All events are free and open to all ages. For more info about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/visit/accessibility

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Spring 2025: Power Lines

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Poetry Foundation’s Spring 2025 season takes as its theme: lineage as a source of collective power. Power lines run through our veins, an energetic current connecting us to the past, fueling us towards the futures of our imaginations. Regenerate with us.