Poetry from the Trenches: How a lifetime of work can shape a poet
A Reading Series Event with Poet Mark Turcotte
When
February 26, 2026
6:00pm
Cost
Free.
Registration is required.
Join Illinois Poet Laureate Mark Turcotte for a day at Elgin Community College.
This event is part of Elgin Community College's (ECC) Writing Center.
ECC’s Writers Center is a place where creatives from all corners of ECC gather to ponder, write, and revise creative writing in its many forms. From songs to poems to personal narratives to screenplays to short stories to plays to graphic novels, the Writers Center fosters a love for all things writing. It fosters and cultivates ECC’s literary community through various programming.
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