The Guild is honored to host a celebration of  Kent Foreman whose career has spanned five decades and whom the Chicago Tribune has called the "elder statesman of spoken word."  Kent has performed with noted artists such as Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Max Roach, Allen Ginsberg, his mentor Oscar Brown, Jr.; he has influenced and mentored many more. Kent has won the Chicago Historical Society's esteemed Carl Sandburg Award, has been to the finals of the national poetry slam three times and appeared on Def Poe