April 19, 2025 - Pamela Miller & Terry Loncaric Reading + Poetry Open-Mic
Saturday, May 10, 2025
4PM - 6PM
@ Wayfarer Theater Office
1850 Second Street, Highland Park.
Highland Park Poetry welcomes award-winning spoken word artist Trey Baker as our feature poet.
Trey Baker is a 2x Emmy nominated and award-winning spoken word artist. As an artist, Trey performs around the country and internationally while having the opportunity to lead creative design and storytelling campaigns for brands such as Jordan, Nike, Chicago Bulls, and more. Trey has performed for and been awarded by President Obama for his youth activism and leadership in storytelling. He also serves as the Special Advisor to the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance and MBK Chicago Action Team. Trey's work involves developing culturally and historically responsive education frameworks for school districts across the country to drive narrative-changing engagements through the power of spoken word poetry. Trey is currently a senior at DePaul University where he is majoring in Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies.
Event is free but an advance ticket is required through Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trey-baker-reading-poetry-open-mic-tickets-1265771188699?aff=oddtdtcreator
Poets may bring up to 3 short poems to share, though HPP reserves the right to reduce the number read to ensure all participants have an opportunity. Come a few minutes early to sign up for the line-up.
*Location* Next door to movie theater. Recommend using Renaissance Place 3-hour free underground parking garage. Stairs in southeast end take you to Second Street or follow signs to movie theater.
There is no cover charge. We hope attendees will support the businesses that support us. Consider seeing a film at Wayfarer Theater before or after.
Upcoming Dates for Readings & Open-Mics at The Wayfarer Theater, 1850 Second Street, Highland Park, IL
June 14 - James Lowell Hall
July 12 - Sandra Marchetti & Jamie Wendt
August 9 - Virginia Bell
September 13 - Sheila Elliott, the 2025 Prairie State Poetry Prize Winner
October 11 - Caroline Johnson
November 8 - TBD
December 13 - Holiday Open-Mic
If you are interested in becoming a featured poet, please reach out.
James Lowell Hall, author of Prairie Roots, named 2024 Book of the Year by the Illinois State Poetry Society.
Rachel DeWoskin in Conversation with Laura Joyce-Hubbard
Monday, April 21, 2025
6 PM at Wayfarer Theater, 1850 Second Street.
Please join Rachel DeWoskin, an award-winning Chicago author of eight books, and Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Highland Park's Poet Laureate, for an evening at Wayfarer Theater in downtown Highland Park. Rachel will discuss the writing life, including inspiration, research and imagination, art and activism, and writing across genres including fiction, non-fiction, dramatic writing, and poetry. DeWoskin's novels include Someday We Will Fly; Banshee; Blind; Big Girl Small; Repeat After Me; two poetry collections, absolute animal and Two Menus; and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. She has won awards including a National Jewish Book Award, a Sydney Taylor Book Award, an American Library Association Alex Award, and an Academy of American Poets Award. Foreign Babes in Beijing, Someday We Will Fly, and Banshee are being developed for film or TV, and DeWoskin’s poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, The Baffler, and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets. She serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA). A book signing will follow the event.
This program is sponsored by the City of Highland Park's Cultural Arts Advisory Group.
Daily Poems from March 2025
Here are the poems posted on Highland Park Poetry's Facebook page from March 2025.
Thank you to our contributors to this special section: Carol Alfus, Dee Allen, Amy Barone, M.J. Boyd, Michael H. Brownstein, D.C. Buschmann, Srinjay Chakravarti, Daniel Cleary, Victoria Crawford, Gail Denham, David Dephy, Charlotte Digregorio, Michael Escoubas, Dave Karpowicz, Richard V. Kaufman, Joan Leotta, Adrian McRobb, Howard Moon, Tim Mueller, Chad Norman, David J. Rogers, Nick Romeo, Miriam Sagan, Carl Scharwath, L.B. Sedlacek, Joseph Small, Richard Stimac, Kay Thomas, Peggy Trojan, William Vollrath, and Lynn Weitz
Please also enjoy our Muses' Gallery. Join us on Facebook and Instagram.
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 words and carry poetry in your heart!
Thank you to our contributors to this special section: Carol Alfus, Dee Allen, Amy Barone, M.J. Boyd, Michael H. Brownstein, D.C. Buschmann, Srinjay Chakravarti, Daniel Cleary, Victoria Crawford, Gail Denham, David Dephy, Charlotte Digregorio, Michael Escoubas, Dave Karpowicz, Richard V. Kaufman, Joan Leotta, Adrian McRobb, Howard Moon, Tim Mueller, Chad Norman, David J. Rogers, Nick Romeo, Miriam Sagan, Carl Scharwath, L.B. Sedlacek, Joseph Small, Richard Stimac, Kay Thomas, Peggy Trojan, William Vollrath, and Lynn Weitz
Please also enjoy our Muses' Gallery. Join us on Facebook and Instagram.
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 words and carry poetry in your heart!
.jpg)
