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Upcoming events
More Light! Open October 17, 2024Luftwerk transforms the Poetry Foundation’s gallery into a lightbox from the inside out.
OPEN HOURS
61 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60654
Wed., Fri., Sat.
11AM – 5PM
Thursday 11AM–6PM
Visit the Poetry Foundation, a literary oasis in River North featuring a library with over 40,000 volumes of poetry and public events that are free and open to all!
In the new exhibition More Light!, the Poetry Foundation welcomes the artist duo Luftwerk into their gallery to create an immersive, site-specific installation that brings visitors into an ever shifting prism of colored light, inspired by Aram Saroyan’s landmark poem “Lighght” and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s lastwords.
Upcoming events include performances by poets Daniel Borzutzky, Rae Armantrout, and Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young.
For the latest on the Foundation’s operating hours and more, please visit PoetryFoundation.org/Visit.
The Poetry Foundation recognizes the power of words to transform lives. We work to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry.
