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Broadway In Chicago presents the Porchlight Music Theatre production of\u00a0TITANIQUE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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CONTACT: Marty McConnell, Blue Hour curator, marty@poetrycenter.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The Chicago Poetry Center invites you to this year’s final three editions of Blue Hour, voted “Chicago’s best reading series 2025” by the Chicago Reader! Blue Hour is a free monthly in-person reading series paired with a generative writing workshop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The next Blue Hour will take place on Wednesday, April 16. The writing workshop will run from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by the open mic and featured readers from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Our features for the night are Ayokunle Falomo and Viola Lee.<\/p>\n

Ayokunle Falomo is Nigerian, American, and the author of “Autobiomythography of” (Alice James Books, 2024), “AFRICANAMERICAN\u2019T” (FlowerSong Press, 2022), two self-published collections and “African, American” (New Delta Review, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review\u2019s 8th annual chapbook contest). He is the recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the University of Michigan\u2019s Helen Zell Writers\u2019 Program, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing\u2014Poetry.<\/p>\n

Viola Lee graduated from NYU with an MFA in Poetry. Her book “Lightening after the Echo” was published by Another New Calligraphy. She has published poems in literary journals throughout the US, including Barrow Street, Bellevue Literary Review, and Another Chicago Magazine. Her poems were finalists in the Pleiades Prufer Poetry Prize and the 2022 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize. Her manuscript “The Only Home” was a finalist in the 2023 Switchback Books\u2019 Gatewood Prize, Semi-finalist in the 2023 Perugia Press Poetry Prize and finalist in the 2024 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize.<\/p>\n

Registration for the April edition of the Blue Hour reading is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Registration for the April edition of the workshop is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The workshop and reading both take place at Haymarket House <\/a>located at 800 W. Buena in Chicago. The reading includes a brief open mic followed by two featured poets. Pre-registration is free and recommended.<\/p>\n

May\u2019s featured poets will be Nadia Alexis and Keith S. Wilson. Information about the series, including upcoming features and the history of the series, can be obtained here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","excerpt":"","slug":"blue-hour","image":{"url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-Blue-Hour-Eventbrite-header.png","id":833010,"extension":"png","width":2160,"height":1080,"filesize":951128,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":900,"height":450,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":145696,"url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-Blue-Hour-Eventbrite-header-900x450.png"},"large":{"width":1800,"height":900,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":485636,"url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-Blue-Hour-Eventbrite-header-1800x900.png"},"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":22923,"url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-Blue-Hour-Eventbrite-header-150x150.png"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":384,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":111741,"url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-Blue-Hour-Eventbrite-header-768x384.png"},"1536x1536":{"width":1536,"height":768,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":368534,"url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-Blue-Hour-Eventbrite-header-1536x768.png"},"2048x2048":{"width":2048,"height":1024,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":612437,"url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-Blue-Hour-Eventbrite-header-2048x1024.png"},"portrait":{"width":500,"height":600,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":212438,"url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-Blue-Hour-Eventbrite-header-500x600.png"},"landscape":{"width":600,"height":400,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":117541,"url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-Blue-Hour-Eventbrite-header-600x400.png"}}},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2025-05-21 19:30:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"05","day":"21","hour":"19","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2025-05-21 21:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"05","day":"21","hour":"21","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2025-05-22 00:30:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"05","day":"22","hour":"00","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2025-05-22 02:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"05","day":"22","hour":"02","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Chicago","timezone_abbr":"CDT","cost":"Free","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":["0"]},"website":"https:\/\/aprilbluehour.eventbrite.com\/","show_map":false,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Theatre & Performing Arts","slug":"theater-performing-arts","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1244,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":1137,"filter":"raw","id":1244,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/1244","collection":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":388246,"status":"publish","date":"2023-02-03 15:27:48","date_utc":"2023-02-03 21:27:48","modified":"2023-02-03 15:27:48","modified_utc":"2023-02-03 21:27:48","url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/venue\/haymarket-house\/","venue":"Haymarket House","slug":"haymarket-house","address":"800 W. Buena Ave.","city":"Chicago","zip":"60613","website":"https:\/\/www.haymarkethouse.org\/","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"www.choosechicago.com?id=388246","global_id_lineage":["www.choosechicago.com?id=388246"]},"organizer":[],"custom_fields":{"_ecp_custom_7":{"label":"Your name","value":"Marty McConnel"},"_ecp_custom_8":{"label":"Your email","value":"marty@poetrycenter.org"},"_ecp_custom_9":{"label":"Comments for reviewer","value":"The May edition of Blue Hour will be taking place on the 21st, not the third Wednesday of the month. Additionally, this post has specific information for April's Blue Hour (such as the feature poets and eventbrite links) which will vary from month to month."}},"is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""},{"id":10209182,"global_id":"www.choosechicago.com?id=10209182","global_id_lineage":["www.choosechicago.com?id=10209182"],"author":"117","status":"publish","date":"2025-02-07 11:18:12","date_utc":"2025-02-07 17:18:12","modified":"2025-02-07 11:18:12","modified_utc":"2025-02-07 17:18:12","url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/event\/evanston-salt-costs-climbing\/2025-05-21\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.choosechicago.com\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/10209182","title":"Evanston Salt Costs Climbing","description":"

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