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ChicagoPoetry.com
A portal to the area's poetry scene, including calendar of events, examples of poetry, contests, contact information, book reviews, even a gossip column.
http://www.ChicagoPoetry.com/

Poetry Center of Chicago, The
Organization that offers reading series and sponsors an inner city poetry program. Includes program details, event dates and membership information.
http://www.poetrycenter.org/

Poetry Magazine
Print magazine includes a weekly featured poet, information on current issue, subscriptions, and programs of the Modern Poetry Association (MPA).
http://www.poetrymagazine.org/

Fengi
Offers a collection of poetry from area submitters, including archives. Also, features the Kulturbremse Terminkalendar - an arts events listing for the city. Directed by Greg Gillam.
http://www.fengi.com/

Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was virtually unknown to the literary world when, in 1914, a group of his poems appeared in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. Two years later his book Chicago Poems was published, and the thirty-eight-year-old author found himself on the brink of a career that would bring him international acclaim. Carl Sandburg worked from the time he was a young boy. He quit school following his graduation from eighth grade in 1891 and spent a decade working a variety of jobs. He delivered milk, harvested ice, laid bricks, threshed wheat in Kansas, and shined shoes in Galesburg\'s Union Hotel before traveling as a hobo in 1897.
http://carl-sandburg.com/index.htm