Each Friday at 12:15 p.m. on the Porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, the Chautauqua Community Poem, curated by Kwame Alexander from entries by our fellow Chautauquans, will be shared and spotlight reader from each of the Chautauqua Writers’ Center workshops will share their work, introduced by each week’s Writers’ Center Faculty.

Chautauquans, we’re writing a poem together. Each week, we will give you a prompt, then invite you to submit an original poem, or meaningful thought or phrase (10-30 lines max) — by Thursday at five o’clock, responding to the week’s theme. Then, we will select lines or words or stanzas from some of your submissions and combine them into one single community poem. The final poem, representing the combined work of multiple contributors will be shared at the Writers’ Center Community Reading on Fridays at 12:15 p.m. on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall. Join us in this endeavor by sharing your thoughts via poetry.chq.org or by dropping by the Poetry Makerspace located under the green awning in Hultquist Center!

Each Friday at 12:15 p.m. on the Porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, the Chautauqua Community Poem, curated by Kwame Alexander from entries by our fellow Chautauquans, will be shared and spotlight reader from each of the Chautauqua Writers’ Center workshops will share their work, introduced by each week’s Writers’ Center Faculty.

Chautauquans, we’re writing a poem together. Each week, we will give you a prompt, then invite you to submit an original poem, or meaningful thought or phrase (10-30 lines max) — by Thursday at five o’clock, responding to the week’s theme. Then, we will select lines or words or stanzas from some of your submissions and combine them into one single community poem. The final poem, representing the combined work of multiple contributors will be shared at the Writers’ Center Community Reading on Fridays at 12:15 p.m. on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall. Join us in this endeavor by sharing your thoughts via poetry.chq.org or by dropping by the Poetry Makerspace located under the green awning in Hultquist Center!