Schedule of Events

A Celebration of Words

Schedule of Events
Highland Park, Illinois

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

Events

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

January 13 - P.O.E.T.S. including Orion Matthews & Blaq Ice

February 10 - Phil Cozzi

2024 POETRY CHALLENGE - Now accepting submissions for the 2024 Poetry Challenge from poets of all ages - 1) Advice - Good or Bad; 2) Mystery (honoring the 200th birthday of Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone & The Woman in White, considered the father of the modern detecitve novel); or 3) a poem on any subject written in the form of a Prime 53. Download submission guidelines, entry form, and Prime 53 instructions.

Deadline is Monday, January 29, 2024.

Click to download Poetry Challenge Instructions

Daily Poem Posts

Here are the poems from October 2023.

Thank you to our contributors to this special section: Carol Alfus, Gina Carillo aka Black Widow, Daniel Cleary, Judy Cummings, Charlotte Digregorio, Jennifer Dotson, Michael Escoubas, Vern Fein, Mardelle Fortier, Mark Hammerschick, Colleen McManus Hein, Ariel Jastromb, Richard V. Kaufman, Joan Leotta, Fay L. Loomis, Lennart Lundh, Geralyn Hesslau Magrady, Elizabeth Marino, William Marr, Adrian McRob, Carl "Papa" Palmer, Marjorie Rissman, David J. Rogers, Sarah Royer-Stoll, Miriam Sagan, Susan Schubert, Michael F. Simon, Curt Vevang, 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

October 2023 Poetry Today Episode with Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Highland Park's Inaugural Poet Laureate

September 2023 Poetry Today Episode with Ann E. Michael

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.