Yale Blue Green Earth Day 2025: Tree Care and Poetry Workshop

Earth Day 2024 at Gwendolyn Brooks Park 46th and Greenwood, Chicago Illinois 11:00-2:00. 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

• Earth Day tree care at Gwendolyn Brooks Park 11-12:15 followed by a poetry workshop at Little Black Pearl’s Carver 47 Café 12:30-2:00 pm. Thanks for coming, Yale Blue Green. ASAP! Tree Care: https://vimeo.com/423749175/f44cb6c347

Info: 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. 

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Gwendolyn Brooks Park, 4542 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, United States