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Current Exhibition
June 27, 2024 – September 14, 2024

Celebrating Chicago Poetry Center’s five historic decades, this exhibition will feature 50 broadsides, 50 iconic vintage poetry event posters, archival materials and ephemera, and the premier of a documentary film...

Past Exhibitions
  • February 15, 2024 – May 18, 2024

    The Poetry Foundation’s presentation of Kara Walker: Back of Hand appropriately foregrounds Walker’s long-term engagement with language and text. 

    Black and white painting depicting an arm and hand. In the center of the hand, a black female figure dressed in undergarments reclines with an arm across her face.
  • September 14, 2023 – January 13, 2024

    This exhibition is a biographical sketch of Harriet Monroe, founding editor of Poetry magazine.

    Illustrated portrait of Harriet Monroe in red and white against a background of black vines with red  flowers, with a small Pegasus in the bottom corner.
  • June 22, 2023 – August 19, 2023

    This exhibition showcases collaborations between Poetry magazine guest editors and cover artists during a period of remarkable growth at the Poetry Foundation.

  • February 18, 2023 – May 20, 2023

    Painter Alex Katz’s extensive collaborations with poets are the subject of this exhibition, the very first to bring together the full range of materials that showcase these connections.

    Portrait of Alice Notley by Alex Katz showing a woman with long, straight brown hair and large blue eyes.