The program features readings from UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry, hosted at The Art Institute of Chicago’s Morton Auditorium and recorded for WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified.

With speakers including Mitchell L.H. Douglas, Parneshia Jones, Kelly Norman Ellis, Ricardo Nazario Colon, Ellen Hagan, Frank X Walker, Stephanie Pruitt, and National Book Award Finalist and Pushcart Prize winner Patricia Smith.

Produced and edited by WBEZ’s Sean Aucoin.