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

Dina Elenbogen / Gari Light

Reading & Poetry Open Mic

Saturday, April 8

Doors open to poets at 4PM

Reading begins at 4:15PM

Laughlin Gallery

1894 Sheridan Road - Gallery moved two doors south

Join Highland Park Poetry for our monthly reading at Laughlin Gallery, our new venue located at 1894 Sheridan Road. Free on-street parking available and in nearby public lots. No cover charge but donation for venue appreciated. Restroom available but no café service. Doors open to poetry at 4PM so as not to disturb other classes or programs occuring earlier. Purchase your favorite beverage before the show at Perfect Blend or Love That Spice/Tea. These businesses close at 4PM so be sure to arrive early to get your order in.

We're pleased to welcome Dina Elenbogen and Gari Light as our featured poets 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).

Dina Elenbogen is author of the poetry collection, Apples of the Earth (Spuyten Duyvil, NY) the memoir, Drawn from Water: an American poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story (BkMkPress, University of Missouri) and the new poetry collection, Shore (Glass Lyre Press, March, 2023.) She has received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including: Fury: Women’s Lived Experience During the Trump Era (Pact Press), City of the Big Shoulders (University of Iowa Press) Beyond Lament (Northwestern University Press), Lit Hub, Bellevue Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, december, Woven Tale Press, The Examined Life Journal, Patterson Literary Review, Connecticut River Review, Rhino, New City Chicago and many other venues. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago Writer’s Studio.

Gari Light, is a Chicago-based poet, born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1967 and has lived in the United States since 1980. Gari graduated from Northwestern University with a Departmental Honors B.A. in Slavic Literatures Studies. He became a lawyer some short time after, and worked in the area of international jurisprudence, both in the U.S, and abroad. Since 1993, Gari's poetry is published regularly in the literary journals and poetry anthologies of the United States, Canada, Israel, Europe and Ukraine. He is a member of the American PEN Center and the Writer's Union of Ukraine. Light’s several books of poetry were published in Russian, starting in 1992 in Ukraine and the U.S. Gari’s collection in English, entitled Confluences (Bagriy, 2020; Kayala, 2020). His most recent trilingual (English, Ukrainian and Russian) poetry book entitled Doloroso, was published both in Kyiv, Ukraine (OFP, 2022) and Chicago-Boston (Bagriy, 2023).

Upcoming Events for 2023 Poetry Challenge

April 29, 2023 at 1PM - Reading & Recognition for Adult & High School Poets
at The Art Center of Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park
May 4, 2023 at 7PM - Reading & Recognition for Student Poets at Northwood Middle School, 945 North Avenue, Highland Park - this event is sponsored by the District 112 Education Foundation

Upcoming Dates at Laughlin Gallery for Readings & Open-Mics

May 13, 2023 - features are Tom Moran & Dipika Mukherjee
June 10, 2023 - features are Kathryn Haydon and TBD

Daily Poem Posts

Here are the poems from February 2023.

Thank you to our contributors to this special section:

Petrouchka Alexieva, Carol Alfus, Giedre Antanaitis, Jennifer Brown Banks, David Dephy, Charlotte Digregroio, J. K. Durick, Barbara Anna Gaiardoni, Marne Glaser, Kate Hutchinson, Richard V. Kaufman, Arlene Gay Levine, j. lewis, Terry Loncaric, Lennart Lundh, Adrian McRobb, Denise O'Hagan, Marianne Peel, Jenene Ravesloot, Marjorie Rissman, Marie Samuel, Susan Schubert, Christine Sheeter, Leslie Anne Swanson, Michael W. Thomas, Peter Witt and R.M. Yager.

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

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.