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Poetry Saloon at Noon is the brick and mortar venue of the poetry & arts publishing website, www.SaloonPoetry.com. The venue has rotated between different sites in the city and usually features an open-mic. This event took place on June 10, at the Chicago Public Library's Sulzer Regional Library.

Jay Ponteri, author of the lyrical book, Wedlocked, lets us in on the truth of his life and marriage. He reminds us that a deeper relationship is always possible if we do not become fixed or believe ourselves to be whole in a way that is final.

SONGBIRDS OF MERIDAI carry you with me into the stillnessinto the shadows of the sun.Here my thoughts alight: tiny buntingssettling in amid the distant sound of brass.Dancing without moving, holdinguntil holding feels familiar. At dawn the urge to move againbecomes so intense I take to flight,e

Poet Kwame Davis shares a poem called “Impossible Flight” in which he observes the 1980 Revolution in Jamaica and tries to hold his brother to earth – to its beauty and its pains.

In Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver, one person holds the memories for the entire community. When the Giver grows old, someone must be chosen to receive the memories. How do you hold onto memories?

Chicago-born poet Edward Hirsch explores bittersweet childhood memories of the two men who had a hand in raising him.  

Just in time for Mother’s Day, Kate Daniels talks about the truth of motherhood – its strangeness, its wonder, and its lusciousness.