Current Guild Event
Palabra Pura Series: Emanuel Xavier and Irasema González
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 8:00pm

Time: Doors open at 8:00 PM, Reading begins at 8:30 PM
Cost: Free admission.
Location: Center on Halsted, Chicago's LGBT Community Center, 3656 N. Halsted, Chicago





Emanuel Xavier is author of the poetry collection Americano, editor of Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry and Mariposas: an anthology of modern queer Latino poetry. He has been featured on Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry on HBO, appeared as guest host of PBS's In The Life and co-starred on MTV LOGO's feature film, The Ski Trip.He most recently selected finalists for Best Gay Erotica 2008 and is currently working on a new poetry collection and a reprint of his fiction novel, Christ like . He is recipient of the Marsha A. Gomez Cultural Heritage Award, a NYC Council Citation and the Outstanding Excellence in Performance Arts Award from the World Pride Power conference.


News & Views
The Guild Complex’s Alternative Lit List

I’ll warn you up front; I’ve got a bee in my bonnet. It’s Printers Row weekend as I write this, and so it’s also the release of the Lit 50 list from New City. I’ve always had – and continue to have – great respect for New City. In many ways I feel that we’re colleagues in the world of independent efforts – members of the Don Quixote Club – so I was particularly disappointed when I scanned the Lit 50 list this year and didn’t see the kind of attention to the many layers of Chicago’s literary arena that I’ve seen on the list in the past. I’ll be transparent and say that I didn’t make the list this year, though I have in the past. I suppose some people will relegate this commentary to sour grapes. That’s not the case, but I understand that my assertion may be looked at skeptically, and I’m willing to face that critique.