UPCOMING EVENTS:
Brewed Awakening, Westmont, IL – Featured Reader
Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 12:30-2:00pm
Chicago Jewish Book Festival
Chicago Loop Synagogue
Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 1:30pm
Register in advance here
Poetry Reading: James Madigan and Jamie Wendt with Angelica Julia Davila
Pilsen Community Books, Chicago, IL
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 7:00-8:00pm
More information here
Sunday Salon at Roscoe Books, Chicago, IL – Featured Reader
Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 7:00pm
JCC Buffalo, NY Virtual Poetry Reading – Featured Reader
Thursday, February 19 at 6:00pm (CST) on Zoom
City Lit Books, Chicago, IL – Featured Reader
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 6:00pm
Continue to check back for upcoming events!
PAST EVENTS:
Chabad of Lakeview, Chicago – Women’s Circle Poetry Reading
Monday, November 17, 2025 at 7:00pm
Register in advance here
Poetry at the Point, St. Louis, MO – Featured Reader
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 7:30pm
Event Details
Poetics of Place: Humanities, Justice, & Movement – Featured Reader
Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, collaboration with Chicago Humanities
James Stone Freedom Square, Chicago
Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 2:00pm
Event Details
Pre-High Holiday Poetry Reading: Reflect, Renew, & Replenish
Featured Readers: Jamie Wendt, Hila Ratazbi, Aviya Kushner, Dina Elenbogen, and Owen Lewis
Chicago Loop Synagogue Co-Sponsored by Yetzirah Chicago Regional Chapter
Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 1:00-3:00pm
Event Details and Registration
Jewish Poets Collective – Virtual Reading & Open Mic – Featured Reader
Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 7:00pm
Event Details and Registration
Printers Row Lit Fest – Book Signing!
Book Signing at the Illinois Woman’s Press Association (IWPA) Table
Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 10:00-6:00pm
Highland Park Poetry – Featured Reader
Wayfarer Theater, 1850 Second Street, Highland Park, IL
Saturday, July 12, 2025 at 4:00pm
Great Chicago Jewish Festival – Morton Grove, IL
Find Jamie Wendt at the Author Tent @ 1:00pm!
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Event Details
Tangible Books Poetry Reading – Chicago
featuring Jamie Wendt, Monica Brown, Natty Chris Gallinari, and Sandy Marchetti
3326 S. Halsted St.
Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 7:00pm
Event Details
Sunday Reading Series – Chicago
featuring Jamie Wendt, Jessica Walsh, and James Stewart
Hungry Brain Bar on Belmont Ave.
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 7:00pm
Event Details
Book Launch for Laughing in Yiddish
Woman Made Gallery in Chicago
Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 2:00pm
Event Details and Registration
Poets Writing Chicago: A Reading and Discussion of Chicago as Poetic Inspiration – Chicago
featuring Tara Betts, Taylor Byas, Dina Elenbogen, Rocio Franco, and Jamie Wendt
Harold Washington Library Center
Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 11:00am
Details about this event and other CPL Poetry Fest events
Poetry Reading – Michigan City, Indiana
Michigan City Public Library
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 6:00pm
Jewish Poetry Salon – Highland Park, IL
featuring Dina Elenbogen, Hila Ratzabi, and Jamie Wendt
Secret World Books
Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 2:00pm
Link to Event Info.
Giving Voice to Art: An Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop
Larksong Writers Place – Virtual Event
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 2:00-3:30pm
Link to Register
Persona Poetry Workshop – Chicago
Discussion and generative writing workshop led by Jamie Wendt
Budlong Woods Library Branch
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 11:00am
Link to Register
First Friday Book Talk and Reading
Larksong Writers Place – Virtual Event
Friday, April 4, 2025 at 12:00pm
Link to Register
AWP Writers’ Conference Book Fair in LA
Book Signing at the Yetzirah table, Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 3:00-4:00pm
Book Signing at the Main Street Rag table, Saturday, March 29 from 2:00-3:00pm
Des Moines Book Festival
Franklin Event Center, Des Moines, IA
Saturday, March 22, 2025 (Book Signing from 2:45-4:15pm)
Event Details
Women in Poetry – Michigan City, Indiana
featuring Jamie Wendt, Carnessa Carnes, Carmen Navarro, Kayla Vasilko, and Valerie Wallace
Michigan City Public Library
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 from 5:30-7:30pm
Event Details
Tangible Books Monthly Poetry Reading Series
Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 7:00pm
Event Details
Words of Light: A Jewish Poetry Panel – Har Zion Temple in Forest Park, IL
Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 12:30pm
Register Here
CATAMARAN Launch – Virtual Contributor Reading, Spring Edition 2021
Tuesday, March 11, 2021 at 7:00pm
ALLEN GINSBERG AWARD READING – Virtual
Saturday, February 6, 2021 at 12:00pm
RACCOON RIVER POETRY READING – Virtual
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 7:00pm
INTERSECT COFFEE READING SERIES, Chicago, IL
Friday, November 8, 2019 at 6:00pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/526361154810649/
POETRY AT THE POINT, ST. LOUIS, MO
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 7:30pm
LOCAL AUTHOR FAIR at DEERFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Deerfield, IL
Saturday, September 21, 2019 from 10:30am-12:30pm
https://deerfield.libnet.info/event/1961792
CITY LIT BOOKS, CHICAGO, IL
Poetry reading with Sara Minges, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Billy Tuggle
Friday, August 9, 2019 at 6:30pm
https://www.citylitbooks.com/event/poetry-reading-sara-minges-billy-tuggle-and-jamie-wendt
BREWED AWAKENING, WESTMONT, IL
Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 12:30pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/1214373162065871/
IMAGINARY GARDENS POETRY SERIES, OMAHA, NE
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 7:00pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/380984812551462/
HIGHLAND PARK POETRY’s “POETRY TODAY” PROGRAM, HIGHLAND PARK, IL
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 2:00pm
PRINTER’S ROW LIT FEST, CHICAGO, IL
Illinois Women’s Press Association book signing table
Saturday, June 8, 2019
HIGHLAND PARK POETRY at Coffee Speaks in Port Clinton, HIGHLAND PARK, IL
Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 6:00pm
http://www.highlandparkpoetry.org/scheduleofevents.html
SINAI SYNAGOGUE, SOUTH BEND, IN
Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 11:00am
https://www.sinaisynagogue.org/blog
AWP Conference, PORTLAND, OR
Panel Discussion: “Jewish Women Writers Confront Identity”
Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 12:00pm
“POETRY IS NORMAL” at the NORMAL PUBLIC LIBRARY, NORMAL, IL
Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 1:00pm
POETRY READING & DISCUSSION at West Suburban Temple Har Zion
Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 1:00pm
BUZZED LIT READING SERIES, CARBONDALE, IL
Friday, February 1, 2019 at 5:00pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/776049386112968/
Hanukkah Boutique in Lakeview, CHICAGO, IL
Saturday, November 17, 2018 from 7:30pm-10:30pm
DRAKE UNIVERSITY HILLEL, DES MOINES, IA
Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 1:00pm
BEAVERDALE BOOKS, DES MOINES, IA
Friday, November 9, 2018 at 6:30pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/342989389604003/
POETRY NIGHT @ OUTDOOR CAFE, CHICAGO, IL
Friday, November 2, 2018 at 7:00pm
AUTHOR’S FAIR at THE BOOK NOOK, PEORIA, IL
Saturday, October 27, 2018 from 11:00am – 2:00pm
ANSHE EMET SYNAGOGUE, CHICAGO, IL
Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 7:00pm
CITY LIT BOOKS, CHICAGO, IL
Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 6:30pm
https://www.citylitbooks.com/event/book-release-and-poetry-reading-fruit-earth-jamie-wendt-caroline-johnson
BOOK BIN, NORTHBROOK, IL
Thursday, August 9, 2018 at 6:00pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/1841375722595384/
The Book Bin, Northbrook
Jamie Wendt 