Monday 1/4: The Poetory features innovative spoken word performers. Open slots are first come, first served. $5, 7 p.m. at The Promontory.
Tuesday 1/5: Christopher Sweet, Robert O’Connor, Mare Swallow, Lori Rader-Day, and Chuck Sudo get Tuesday Funk-y. Hopleaf, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday 1/6: Pop-Up Poetry! Simone Muench reads at the Art Institute of Chicago to mark the reopening of the Contemporary Collection. The Modern Wing’s Griffin Court, 12 p.m.
Thursday 1/7: Women & Children First welcomes Rebecca Scherm to discuss her psychological thriller, Unbecoming. 7:30 p.m.
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