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Chicago Artisan Market – Live Poetry Event

Celebrate Bastille Day at the Chicago Artisan Market in the Fulton Market District! Tickets for this Flagship Sunday Market are available here!

Find me there and I will write you a personalized poem on a vintage typewriter while you wait as a part of the Poems While You Wait Collective!

What is Poems While You Wait?

We are a collective of poets & manual typewriters whose mission is to appear around the city in public places — street festivals, museums, libraries, theaters, & events — to provide our patrons with a magical, unexpected, unpretentious, & decontextualized encounter with poetry. No requested topic is too big or too small, too funny or too sad, too silly or too serious.

When?

10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Be sure to grab your tickets ahead of time here or at the door for $10.

Where?

Morgan MFG Building
401 N. Morgan St
Chicago, IL

Book Signing and Poetry Readings

Featuring: M.C. Rydel & Aaron Baker & Heather McClellan

When?

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
– Readings Begin at 2:15 pm

Where?

The Book Stall
811 Elm Street 
Winnetka, IL

Book Signing and Poetry Reading

When?

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Where?

Archie’s Cafe
1228 W. Loyola Avenue
Chicago, IL
(Sheridan & Loyola — just steps west of the Loyola Red Line “L” Stop)

Book Signing and Poetry Reading

When?

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
– Reading Begins at 7:00 pm

Where?

This Old Book
138. Center Street
Grayslake, IL
(Just North of RT 83 & RT 120)