Schedule of Events

Schedule of Events
Highland Park, Illinois

All poets are welcome to participate -
having 60035 as your zip code
is not a requirement

Events

Laura Joyce-Hubbard

Reading & Poetry Open Mic

Saturday, October 14, 2023

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Madame ZuZu's

1876 First Street

*One purchase minimum*

Join Highland Park Poetry for our monthly reading. We're at Madame ZuZu's at 1876 First Street in Highland Park. Full service vegan cafe offering food and beverages. Free onstreet parking and nearby lots. One purchase minimum required - please support the business that supports poetry and supports us.

We're pleased to welcome Laura Joyce-Hubbard, the City of Highland Park's First Poet Laureate as our featured poet this month. Open-mic immediately follows. Poets may bring up to three poems to read (each poem should not exceed one page - if your poems are longer, read fewer).

Laura Joyce-Hubbard’s nonfiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming in Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Sewanee Review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, The Adroit Journal, Boulevard, River Teeth, Tupelo Quarterly, the anthology, Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023), and elsewhere. Recent awards include winner of The Iowa Review’s 2022 veteran writing award, winner of the 2023 Porch Prize in Poetry, winner of 2021 Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest at Southeast Review, runner-up of the 2021 Poetry Contest at The Sewanee Review, and winner of the 2021 Individual Poem Prize in the William Faulkner Pirate’s Alley Writing Competition. Her nonfiction was selected as a “Notable” in the Best American Essays 2022. Laura served in the US Air Force for twenty years and was among the first women to pilot the C-130. She is a fiction editor for TriQuarterly, an MFA Candidate at Northwestern University, and the inaugural Highland Park Poet Laureate, where she lives with her family. She is also at work on an essay collection examining metaphors from flight through a feminist lens.

Upcoming Dates for Readings & Open-Mics - Locations are in flux be sure to check calendar and Facebook closer to the event date

November 11 - features are Elizabeth Joy Levinson and Sandy Marchetti

Highland Park Poetry announces its 2024 Poetry Challenge on October 1st

This event is not sponsored by Highland Park Poetry but we are pleased to share the information with our friends and followers

This event is not sponsored by Highland Park Poetry but we are pleased to share the information with our friends and followers

*FREE* Photography and Poetry

Writing Workshop

with Laura Joyce-Hubbard

Saturday, October 28, 2023

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Heller Nature Center

2821 Ridge Road

Registration required - limited to 25 participants

Highland Park's first Poet Laureate offers this free photography and poetry-writing workshop on the inspiring grounds of the Heller Nature Center. Follow this link for details and to register. Or contact the Park District of Highland Park - www.pdhp.org.

Link to workshop - https://www.pdhp.org/event/photography-and-poetry-with-laura-joyce-hubbard/

This is not a Highland Park Poetry-sponsored event; still we are pleased to share this information with our friends and followers.

Prairie State Poetry Prize

for a 1st or 2nd Book

Deadline: Midnight, October 31, 2023

Judge is Lennart Lundh

Prize:

Publication by Highland Park Poetry Press
$150 Cash Award
20 copies of winning manuscript
Possible feature spot for a Highland Park Poetry Reading Event

Download complete submission guidelines.

Click to download Prairie State Poetry Prize Instructions

Daily Poem Posts

Here are the poems from August 2023.

Thank you to our contributors to this special section:

Petrouchka Alexieva, Carol Alfus, Maria Asvos, Michael H. Brownstein, George Cant, Mardelle Fortier, Linda Freudenberger, Martina Gallegos, Dominique Galiano, Marne Glaser, Richard V. Kaufman, Elizabeth Stanley King, Terry Loncaric, Lennart Lundh, Joan McNerney, Laura Potts, Ann Privateer, Miriam Sagan, Michael Simon, Joris Soeding, Lori Wall-Holloway, Anthony Ward, Lynn West, Peter A. Witt, Patricia Williams, Renee Williams, R.M. Yager, and Andrena Zawinski

Previous months are available for review as archive downloads at the bottom of the Muses' Gallery.

Please also enjoy our Muses' Gallery. Join us on Facebook.

Highland Park Poetry seeks submissions of shorter poems for our Daily Poem posts. Collaborations are welcome as are poems in non-English languages when accompanied by an English translation.

Continue to celebrate and carry poetry in your heart!

Poetry Today - Past Episodes

July 2023 - Judith MK Kaufman & Wilda Morris

January 2023 - Poetry Today is Back!

March 2020 - Joris Soeding

February 2020 - Dipika Mukherjee

January 2020 - Herb Berman

December 2019 - Mike Freveletti

November 2019 - Jan Bottiglieri

June 2019 - Jamie Wendt

May 2019 - William Lederer

April 2019 - Patrice Boyer Claeys

March 2019 - Khalid Mukhtar

February 2019 - Olivia Maciel Edelman

January 2019 - Weather the Weather with Emma Alexandra and Betsy Dolgin Katz

December 2018 - Cathleen Schandelmeier

October 2018 - C. J. Wilkens

August 2018 - Caroline Johnson

July 2018 - William Carey & Mary Beth Bretzlauf discuss Coffee, Tea & Other Beverages in 2018 Summer Muses' Gallery

June 2018 - Wilda W. Morris

May 2018 - Oliver Mansfield & Constance Vitale

March 2018 - Dr. Shai Har El

February 2018 - Cynthia Gallaher

January 2018 - Faisal Mohyuddin

December 2017 - Arlyn Miller, Poetic License, Inc

October 2017 - Public Art Poetry with Marjorie Rissman & Kerry Leaf

September 2017 - Naoko Fujimoto

August 2017 - Donna Vorreyer

July 2017 - Bakul Banerjee

June 2017 - Curt Vevang

May 2017 - William Marr

April 2017 - HPHS Focus on the Arts

March 2017 - TRAVEL Poetry on Poetry Today!

November 2016 - Jacqueline Harris on Poetry Today!

October 2016 - Lennart Lundh on Poetry Today!

September 2016 - Al DeGenova on Poetry Today!

Technical difficulties during taping of this episode leave the screen blank for about three minutes; however, have faith - the audio continues just fine and the interview goes on.