2013 Benefit: “Talkin’ Blues: a Tribute to Sterling Plumpp”

You are cordially invited to our fourth annual benefit, Talkin’ Blues, honoring Sterling Plumpp, renowned Chicago-based Blues poet, on May 14. The Guild Literary Complex will pay tribute to his decades-long achievement on stage at Rosa’s Blues Lounge in Logan Square (3420 W. Armitage). Plumpp with be joined by Jeffery Renard Allen, Duriel Harris, Tyehimba Jess and Fernando Jones. Plumpp is one of the last original Mississippi Blues artists who came north with his grandparents during the Great Migration. His poetry combines both the red-clay roots of his Mississippi youth and his experiences living for years on Chicago’s West Side with a raw, emotional intensity of a life fully lived. Tickets are online at guildcomplex.org. Join us at  for an electric evening with food, music, and poetry as we celebrate the life of Sterling Plumpp. Doors 6:30 pm, Program 7:30 pm.

Get your tickets HERE!