Twelve poets read over 40 poems covering a wide range of topics — including barriers to mental health care, family stories and the cacophony of sounds made when frying chicken — during The American Indian Center of Chicago’s Wednesday “Night of Poetry” event. 

Every month, local and national poets attend the event to read aloud recent works and hear poems from peers.

– Yiming Fu, Assistant City Editor [Daily Northwestern], May 20, 2021: Poets criticize policing in American Indian Center reading

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American Indian Center 2026 Annual Gala, Rematriation: Land Back, Life Forward, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2026, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
AIC ANNUAL GALA · 2026

An evening for what comes next.

Join us for an evening of Native food, art, music and movement—and help carry the work of rematriation forward.

NOV. 21 · 5:45 P.M. · TICKETS $175