May 31
11:00AM – 2:00PM
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Yale Day of Service: IL, Chicago- Tree Care and Poetry Workshop
To infuse society with radical hope, volunteers will tend trees at Gwendolyn Brooks Park and The Oracle of Bronzeville monument to the first black, woman, and writer in Chicago Park.
Each participant is invited to write a poem during the Poetry Workshop led by acclaimed poet, Kira Tucker, and Poet Laureate of Highland Park, Laura Joyce Hubbard.
After tree care, poems will be written at Little Black Pearl’s Carver 47 Café’ to perpetuate the teachings of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Please bring a water bottle and garden gloves, ride your bike, carpool, or take public transportation to our celebration of Earth Day. Bring lunch money for Carver 47 Café
Gwendolyn Brooks Park — 4542 South Greenwood Avenue
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