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SUMMARY:What Came After: An Evening of Poetry with Christopher Stewart and John McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Stewart’s latest book\, What Came After is a poetic walk through grief\, memory\, and mental illness from a child perspective to adult understanding. It peers at life through the stain of poverty in the Midwest. In discussion with the author is John McCarthy\, whose 2019 book\, Scared Violent like Horses\, offers a complementary perspective on childhood masculinity and coping with loss. Each author’s poetry crafting a different image\, presenting a deeply moving but bitter contrast to the Rockwell image\, we think we know.These books complement one another so well. Each author will read from their perspective books and share in a discussion moderated in part by Guild Complex\, Executive Director\, Andrea Change. \n\n\n\n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \n\n\n\nChristopher Stewart is co-author (with Quraysh Ali Lansana) of The Walmart Republic (Mongrel Empire Press) and has been recently published in Bryant Literary Review\, Oakwood\, The Perch\, Connecticut River Review\, and others. His new book\, What Came After (The Calliope Group) is out now and the focus of this event. His work frequently addresses themes around mental illness and recovery. He was a 2022 finalist for Steve Kowit Poetry Prize and a 2023 finalist for the Iowa Review Award. \n\n\n\nJohn McCarthy is the author of Scared Violent Like Horses (Milkweed Editions\, 2019)\, which was selected by Victoria Chang as the winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. He is also the author of one previous poetry collection\, Ghost County (Midwestern Gothic Press\, 2016)\, which was named a Best Poetry Book of 2016 by The Chicago Review of Books. John’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals\, including 32 Poems\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Best New Poets\, Cincinnati Review\, Copper Nickel\, Gettysburg Review\, Ninth Letter\, North American Review\, Pleiades\, Quarterly West\, and TriQuarterly. He currently lives in Evanston\, Illinois and is the Managing Editor of RHINO Poetry. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the Guild Complex in collaboration with Haymarket Books. 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/what-came-after-an-evening-of-poetry-with-christopher-stewart-and-john-mccarthy/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of AAPI Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join the Guild Complex\, RHINO Poetry\, Kundiman\, and Luya Poetry for a celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander month with an evening of poetry readings from AAPI poets.  \n\n\n\n***We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase from the authors.*** \n\n\n\nRHINO Poetry Readers \n\n\n\nIgnatius Valentine Aloysius earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University\, where he teaches writing and experimentation. He is the author of the literary novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books)\, and his prose and poetry have appeared in or are forthcoming in Allium\, a Journal of Poetry & Prose\, Cold Mountain Review\, Another Chicago Magazine\, Porter Gulch Review\, Trampset\, Thanatos Review\, Roi Fainéant Press\, and Portable Gray (U of Chicago Press)\, among others. A poetry collection he co-authored with David Allen Sullivan\, poet laureate of Santa Cruz\, CA\, is forthcoming on Hummingbird Poetry Press. Ignatius curates and hosts the popular reading series Sunday Salon Chicago\, and he is a Co-Chair of the Curatorial Board at Ragdale Foundation\, where he is also a member of its Board of Trustees. Ignatius is currently shopping a lyrical novel and also his second poetry collection. Visit https://linktr.ee/ignatius.valentine.aloysius \n\n\n\nNoh Anothai’s translations range from classical Siamese poets to contemporary Thai authors\, including several who have received or been nominated for the Southeast Asian Writers (SEAWrite) Award. His work has been featured in Asymptote\, World Literature Today\, and Two Lines\, and he has served as a judge for the Lucien Stryk Prize for Asian Literature in Translation. Anothai was a Helen Degen Cohen Summer Reading Fellow with RHINO Poetry\, and later also served as an Associate Editor. Currently\, he is a co-editor for the Best Literary Translations anthology\, whose first edition featured guest editor Jane Hirshfield. \n\n\n\nKundiman Readers \n\n\n\nJess Yuan is a poet\, educator\, and architect. She is the author of Slow Render (2024)\, winner of the Airlie Prize\, and Threshold Amnesia (2020)\, winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, and her poems appear in Best New Poets\, Tupelo Quarterly Review\, jubilat\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Pleiades\, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. \n\n\n\nMeg Kim is a poet from Southern Oregon currently living in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter\, Sundog Lit\, and Gulf Coast\, among others\, and her debut chapbook\, INVISIBLE CARTOGRAPHIES\, is forthcoming summer 2024 with New Delta Review. \n\n\n\nLUYA Poetry Readers \n\n\n\nChris Aldana (she/they) is the author of The Water We Swim In (Sampaguita Press\, 2023). They are a queer\, Filipinx artist\, educator\, and community organizer based in Chicago. She is the founder and creative director of Luya\, a poetry organization that centers the voices of people of color. \n\n\n\nCzaerra Galicinao Ucol (they/she) is a queer Filipino writer from Chicago. A 2020 graduate of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program at New York University\, their work has appeared in Marías at Sampaguitas\, beestung\, and Walang Hiya. They are a Best New Poets 2021 and Best of the Net 2021 nominee. They are also the Programs and Communications Director of Luya\, a local grassroots poetry organization centering people of color\, which was nominated for Best Poetry Organization in Chicago Reader’s Best of 2021 Awards. In their free time\, they like cooking new recipes\, practicing Filipino Martial Arts\, and listening to Lake Michigan’s waves crashing. Their debut chapbook\, PISCES URGES\, was released in Summer 2023. \n\n\n\nDipika Mukherjee is the author of the novels Shambala Junction and Ode to Broken Things\, and the story collection\, Rules of Desire. Her work is included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and appears in World Literature Today\, Asia Literary Review\, Del Sol Review\, and Chicago Quarterly Review\, Newsweek\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Hemispheres\, Orion\, Scroll\, The Edge and more. Her third poetry collection\, Dialect of Distant Harbors\, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press in October 2022 and a collection of travel essays\, Writers Postcards\, has been accepted for publication by Penguin Random House (SEA) for 2023. She teaches at StoryStudio Chicago and the Graham School at University of Chicago. She holds a PhD in English (Sociolinguistics) from Texas A&M University.
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LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
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SUMMARY:Who Loves the Sun | Chicago Book Launch and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join author Fulla Abdul-Jabbar in conversation with Mika Yamamoto for a celebration of her new book\, Who Loves the Sun\, with performances from Samara Huggins and Sonnenzimmer.  \n\n\n\nWho Loves the Sun begins as a study of the scientific poster\, in an attempt to understand the object and the people who make them. Eventually focus strays from this subject to explore how the emotional\, personal\, and expressive leak from all structures that attempt to contain the self\, be they molecular\, disciplinary\, or typographic. Composed of seven chapters\, each taking a different form—from email to lecture to personal essay to mourning diary— Who Loves The Sun ultimately embraces the failure of form. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by Meekling Press\, the Guild Complex and Haymarket Books.  \n\n\n\n***We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.*** \n\n\n\nFulla Abdul-Jabbar is a writer and artist living in Brooklyn. She has performed\, screened\, and exhibited nationally and internationally at the Electronic Literature Organization\, Human Resources LA\, the Brussels Independent Film Festival\, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her writing has appeared in DIAGRAM\, Bombay Gin\, Jellyfish Review\, Passages North\, Northwest Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. Her debut book\, Who Loves the Sun was released through Meekling Press. \n\n\n\nMika Yamamoto is a writer and teacher based in Oak Park\, IL. She has been published most recently in The Good River Review\, Thieving Magpie\, and Vagabond City. She teaches at both Oak Park River Forest High School and The School at the Art Institute of Chicago. \n\n\n\nSamara Huggins is a poet\, performer\, artist and alchemist who explores how text interacts and reacts with the body. She embeds language into hidden or undisclosed parts of handmade quilts\, tapestries\, and garments. Alongside women in her family\, she weaves\, knits\, embroiders\, dyes\, and stitches stories of ancestry\, ecology\, grief and healing. \n\n\n\nSonnenzimmer a collaboration between artists Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi\, approaches graphic arts with an interdisciplinary mindset\, aiming to create new understandings that transcend specific disciplines. Their work encompasses image-making\, sculpture\, writing\, publishing\, exhibitions\, design\, music\, improvisation\, and performance\, exploring the physical and mental effects of visualization. They often discuss the concept of Graphic Arts Future\, which refers to the fusion of all human-induced media beyond conventional reception and intention. Through their experimental practice\, they aim to evoke metaphysical curiosity and encourage formats that engage with this concept. They believe that by embracing the Graphic Impulse\, we can collectively reconsider our approach to mark-making and signage\, ultimately benefiting society as a whole.Sonnenzimmer.com
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/who-loves-the-sun-chicago-book-launch-and-celebration/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
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