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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Telling Our Stories Through the Body"
DESCRIPTION:Join us this April for “Telling Our Stories Through the Body\,” curated by Erika Sánchez and featuring Juana Iris Goergen and Ruben Quesada. More details below. \nErika L. Sánchez\nErika L. Sánchez is a poet and freelance writer living in Chicago. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid\, Spain\, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She is currently the sex and love advice columnist for Cosmopolitan for Latinas and a contributor for The Huffington Post\, NBC Latino\, and others. Her poetry has appeared in Pleiades\, Drunken Boat\, Witness\, Anti-\, Hunger Mountain\, Crab Orchard Review\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Copper Nickel\, and others. She has written book reviews for Kirkus Reviews and her nonfiction has been published in Jezebel\, AlterNet\, and Ms. Magazine. \nJuana Iris Goergen\nJuana Iris Goergen (Puerto Rico). Published poet. Professor of Spanish\,  Latin American and U.S. Latino Literature at DePaul University\, Chicago. As a poet she has published La sal de las brujas (finalist at Letras de Oro and published by Betania 1997) and  La piel a medias (2001)\,  Las Ilusas/Dreamers (Vocesueltas\, 2008) as well as poems published in anthologies: Astillas de luz/Shards of Light (1998)\, Nosotros los otros (1996) Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corazón y la tierra (2001)\, Generación (2001). She is the editor of Susurros para disipar las sombras: Antología poética\,  V International Poetry Festival Poesía en Abril\, Michigan: Erato Ediciones\, 2012. She developed and co-organizes in Chicago\, Poesía en abril\, International Poetry Festival in Spanish\, now in its 6th year. She has two unpublished poetry collections: La celda de Lilith and ContraOda al sueño americano. \nRuben Quesada\nRuben Quesada is the author of Next Extinct Mammal (2011) and Luis Cernuda: Exiled from the Throne of Night (2008). A CantoMundo fellow\, he is the Founding Editor of Codex Journal\, and Poetry Editor at The Cossack Review. His writing has appeared in Cimarron Review\, The American Poetry Review\, The Rumpus\, Rattle\, and Third Coast. He teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-telling-our-stories-through-the-body/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130405T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Performance Incubator: "Tour Guides"
DESCRIPTION:  \nBeverly Arts Center\nThe Guild Literary Complex is pleased to announce the 2013 remount of “Tour Guides”. Produced in 2010 as part of the Poetry Performance Incubator\, “Tour Guides”\, gives audiences a lyrical tour of the Chicago tourists never see. Originally written by a team of six\, “Tour Guides” has had twelve distinct voices take part in its development since 2010. Restaged at the Beverly Arts Center by noted director Coya Paz (Teatro Luna\, Proyecto Latina\, The Americans)\, “Tour Guides” is an insider’s peek at life in Chicago. From a haunting tour of the city’s “ghost bikes” to a hilarious look at the way neighborhood cultures shape how men pick up women\, to an honest analysis of whether to invite white friends to Southside restaurants\, “Tour Guides” offers an unflinching look at Chicago’s complex cultural landscape. \n“Tour Guides” will be at The Beverly Art Center\, 2407 W 111th St\, on Friday April 5 and Saturday April 6\, 2013 at 7:30 pm and Sunday April 7 at 3:30 pm. Tickets are $16/$13 for BAC members. For additional details\, visit guildcomplex.org. \nCoya Paz\nCoya Paz is poet\, director\, and lip gloss connoisseur. She is the Lead Artist for the Poetry Performance Incubator at The Guild Complex\, a founding member of Proyecto Latina\, and a member of the artistic team at Free Street Theatre. She teaches in The Theatre School at DePaul University.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poetry-performance-incubator-tour-guides/
LOCATION:Beverly Arts Center\, 2407 West 111th Street
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130320T193000
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DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20130117T152900Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Poems as Stories\, Stories as Poems
DESCRIPTION:Dawn Herrera\n  \nFeaturing Dawn Herrera Helphand and Denise Ruiz\, Poems as Stories\, Stories as Poems explores the ways that poetry opens up narrative possibilities. At once funny and fierce\, thoughtful and bizarre\, this month’s Palabra Pura\, curated by Coya Paz\, brings verse and storytelling together through the words of two powerful women. \nDawn Herrera Helphand is a poet\, a mother and a full-time lover. Dawn was most recently seen onstage as “Pink Slime” in “Unnatural Spaces\,” the Guild Complex’s performance-poetry incubator. A Mellon Mays Fellow\, Dawn is pursuing a Ph.D. with the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought\, investigating the relationships between freedom and power\, ethics and politics. \nCoya Paz\nDenise Ruiz is a poet\, mother\, and agitator. Denise recently wrote and performed in Unnatural Spaces\, from the Guild Complex’s Poetry-Performance Incubator. She believes in real talk and cute clothes. \nCoya Paz is poet\, director\, and lip gloss connoisseur. She is the Lead Artist for the Poetry Performance Incubator at The Guld Complex\, a founding member of Proyecto Latina\, and a member of the artistic team at Free Street Theatre. She teaches in The Theatre School at DePaul University.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-4/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130309T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130309T220000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: "A Night of Love"
DESCRIPTION:THE GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX \nand  CHICAGO DANZTHEATRE ENSEMBLE PRESENT: \n“A NIGHT OF LOVE” \n“There is a community of the spirit. Join it\, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise…” \n-Rumi \nThe Guild Literary Complex and Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble are pleased to present “A Night of Love”\, an evening of performance\, poetry\, and visual art inspired by the poetry and mysticism of Rumi.  Join for an evening length event that includes a gallery of visual art performances by members of Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and a poetry reading by poets selected by The Guild Literary Complex. Tickets can be purchased through www.danztheatre.org and are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. All tickets include dessert. \n\nFeatured poets include: Senyo Ador\, Bobby Biedrzycki\, L’Oreal Patrice Jackson\, Teresa Kuruvilla\, and John Sacelli.\nFeatured performers include: Jack Ryan\, Wannapa P-Eubanks & Rachel Javellana\, Ellyzabeth Adler\, Lisa Leszczewicz\, Amy Swanson\, Steve Keller\, Chicago Improv Productions\, and Momar Ndiaye (Klou).\nFeatured visual artists include: David Sarallo\, Joshua Longbrake\, Steve Juras\, Kyle Fletcher\, and Josie Davis.\n\n  \nTeresa\, Bobby\, L’Oreal\, and Senyo\nTeresa Kuruvilla recently graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a B.F.A. in music performance. She recently played Bloom in the Literary Guild Complex’s Unnatural Spaces\, directed by Coya Paz. Other Chicago stage credits include Disconnect (Victory Gardens Theater)\, El Stories: Brown Line (Greenhouse Theater)\, and the Bare Bones Theater Festival (Voice of the City). In addition to acting\, Teresa frequently performs as a vocalist throughout Chicago. She’s a teaching artist for After School Matters\, as well as the International Performing Arts Academy. \nBobby Biedrzycki is a writer\, performer\, poet\, and activist who came to Chicago\, IL from St. Paul\, MN via the Bronx\, NY. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications\, and he has performed on stages and bar stools all over the city and country. Bobby is an adjunct faculty member of the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago and a company member of the Chicago-based storytelling collective 2nd Story. He is also in love with love. \nL’Oreal Patrice Jackson is an Artist rooted in theatre\, music\, movement and writing. Ms. Jackson hails from the east coast and graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts\, where she studied creative writing. In Chicago she received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University and has worked as a professional actor in theatre\, film\, and voiceover. Chicago Theatre credits include; Unnatural Spaces with The Guild Literary Complex Tearing Down the Walls with ETA\, The Final Word with Gorilla Tango\, The Home Project with About Face Theatre\, 365Days/365Plays at Silk Road\, andVenus with The Mill. As an Arts Educator she teaches theatre performance\, improvisation\, storytelling\, and multi-disciplinary art\, She has worked with Steppenwolf\, Columbia College of Chicago\, Changing Worlds\, The Beverly Arts center and Writers Theatre. Ms. Jackson also serves as the Artistic Director for Sankofa Theatre Company and as a youth leader for Soka Gakkai International (SGI) a lay buddhist organization dedicated to peace culture and education. \nSenyo Ador – Writer\, poet and magazine editor\, Senyo_Twilight\, comes with the most unlikely of backgrounds\, being that he was once an electrical engineer. Raised between Accra\, Ghana and Chicago’s western suburbs he was heavily influenced by Nikola Tesla\, the pioneering electrical engineer\, humanitarian\, and showman from Austria. Senyo_Twilight is now using the power in his words to energize audiences the world over to act on causes both locally and remote. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-rumi-poetry-and-dance/
LOCATION:Fulton Street Collective\, 2000 W Fulton S\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Weather / Whether"
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex (GLC) continues the eighth year of Palabra Pura with an evening of bilingual poetry titled\, “Whether in Chicago.” Curated by Rafael Franco\, this event asks us to consider what role\, if any\, weather plays\, whether significantly or not\, in writing and how that writing might weather the winds of literary exploration. The event will include poetry in Spanish\, English\, and Spanglish.Featured readers include performance duo Zigtebra and Alex Bonner. \n  \nRafael Franco writes\, acts\, and shoots photography. His collection of short stories – Alaska – received the first annual National Short Story Prize from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in 2006. His next book is titled Las Macrónicas del Temponauta and will be published in the spring by Colección Maravilla on the island. An experimental novel incorporating poetry\, photography\, and metafiction\, Las Macrónicas is the first salvo in an ambitious literary project that jumps across genres through a series of books collectively known as Los IV Libros de la Inmortalidad\, though there are more than four books and everybody dies. He is currently collaborating with fellow Antillean author and performer Rey Andújar on theater projects under the shared moniker: ReHab & Denial. \nZigtebra is a half-sibling performance pop-rock duo whose name comes from a mashup of a Zebra (emily) and a Tiger (joseph).  They met two and half years ago in a dance troop called Pure Magical Love and upon discovering their relatedness\, teamed up to write songs married to performance.  Over the past year their shows have included a Leonard Cohen musical\, “The Red Pony” play\, “The Parrot and the Pirate\,” “Psychic Psyblings” cassette tape release\, and a recent appearance on CAN-TV’s “Chic-A-Go-Go.” \n\n  \nAlex Bonner is a Chicagoan. His writing can be seen on walls all over town but also in some of its stranger printing houses\, including just recently The Deadline and Back to Print. Alex was the 2009 Windy City Story Slam Champion and won the 2010 National Storyslam people’s choice award. Alex can be seen reading his work aloud for several Chicago–based reading series such as Second Story and The Moth. Alex also spent a massive amount of loan money at Columbia College Chicago where he learned the basic format of how to write screenplays; ever since\, he has been the head writer and co-founder of Bailout Pictures Chicago. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-weather-whether/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130116T210000
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SUMMARY:PALABRA PURA: "One Poet / One Poem"
DESCRIPTION:PALABRA PURA: “ONE POET / ONE POEM”\nWednesday\, Janurary 16\, 7:30pm\, FREE\nLa Bruquena Restaurant (Upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\n \nThe Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the eighth season of PALABRA PURA with “One Poet / One Poem”. \n \nJoin us as past readers retake the stage to share their work in Spanish\, English\, or a combination of both. Guest curators for the 2013 season will be on hand to announce their plans for the upcoming year. \n \nGuest curators for 2013 include: \nRakael Franco Steeves\nCoya Paz\nErika L. Sánchez \nRaúl Dorantes\nJohnny Vázquez Paz \nSandra Posadas\nIrasema González\nFrancisco Aragón \nand Miguel López Lemus\n \nReaders include: \nCristina Correa\nRaúl Dorantes\nJorge Frisancho\nJuana Goergen\nIrasema Gónzalez \nNora León\nMiguel López Lemus\nOlivia Maciel\nYolanda Nieves \nJennifer Patiño \nSandra Posadas\nMartin Rubio\nXenia Ruiz\nJacob Saenz\nErika L. Sánchez\nLuis Tubens\nRik Vázquez\n \nNEVER BEEN TO A PLABRA PURA?!\nVisit our YouTube page to see past readers. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-one-poet-one-poem/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Select a Country:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121128T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Rooster Footed Devils"
DESCRIPTION:This installment of Palabra Pura will explore the effect on individuals and communities of not fitting in to preconceived Latino identities. It is curated by Jennifer Patiño and featuring poets Beatriz Ruiz\, Anthony Michael Cooremans and RIK Vazquez. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nBeatriz J Ruiz was born and raised in Chicago and Guanajuato.  She is a writer by vocation\, not profession.  She is not a gold coin.  She has always tried to find home but instead has chosen to carry it on her back. She is an osicona\, a cabrona.  She is the boxer’s swan song. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Michael Cooremans was born and raised in San Antonio\, Texas. He writes poetry and short essays about modern society and history.  Much of his work focuses on racial ambiguity in increasingly diverse times. His is a Aydos Learning national award winner in poetry and the current Grand Slam poetry champion for Mental Graffiti – Chicago. Anthony is currently working on a project entitled Field Trips\, featuring stories commentary on what excites us as children.\n\nRIK Vazquez is a spoken word artist and educator. At the age of eighteen he coached the Steinmetz Poetry team which competed in Chicago’s “Louder Than A Bomb” youth poetry slam\, the team won and went on to compete on a national level. The teams RIK has coached in successive years have met all personal and educational goals they have set\, several going on to college as Creative Writing and English majors. In 2009\, 2011\, and 2012 he represented Chicago at the adult National Poetry Slam. In 2010 RIK became a member of Marc Smith’s Speak Easy poetry ensemble. Over the summer of 2011 he teamed up with Patricia Smith and Billy Tuggle and relaunched the traveling poetry collective known as the Four Star Poets. The only things he does better than writing poems is hunting lions and riding dolphins.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-2/
LOCATION:La Bruquena\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120610T235059Z
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SUMMARY:"Unnatural Spaces" - a new project from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/unnatural-spaces-a-new-project-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator-2/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121027T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
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SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1103/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121026T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121026T190000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120404T135402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T172805Z
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SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1102/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121024T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20121017T181950Z
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SUMMARY:Congratulations to the 2012 Prose Awards Finalists!
DESCRIPTION:Congratulations to following finalists of the 2012 Prose Awards  (fiction and non-fiction)!\n  \n  \nFiction \nClaire Bartlett \nJason Lee Brown \nSahar Mustafah \n\n \nNon-Fiction \nSuzanne Scanlon \nIngrida Martinkus \nJane Hertenstein \n  \n  \nThis year’s finalists were chosen by judges Amina Gautier and David Lazar. Please join us as we reveal the winners on October 24\, 7:30 pm\, at the Chopin Theatre\, 1543 West Division Street. Two cash prizes of $250 are awarded to the top writer in each category\, and surprises for runners-up are in store!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/congratulations-to-the-2012-prose-awards-finalists/
LOCATION:Chopin Theatre\, 1543 West Division Street\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121024T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
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SUMMARY:2012 Prose Awards for Short Fiction and Non-Fiction - Recognition Event
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex’s Prose Awards (short fiction and non-fiction) help to surface emerging and mid-career prose writers and bring them to the public’s attention through an open call for submissions and judged competition. Past judges have included luminaries such as Stuart Dybek\, Alex Kotlowitz\, Antonya Nelson\, and Sam Weller. On October 24\, we will hold the Prose Awards’ final event: a showcase reading of this year’s semi-finalists\, ending with the live announcement of the winner for the Fiction and Non-Fiction categories\, both of whom will receive a cash prize of $250. This year’s semi-finalists and winners will be chosen by judges Amina Gautier and David Lazar (non-fiction). The recognition event is to take place at The Chopin Theater\, 1543 West Division Street\,  Chicago\, IL. \nAbout the Judges \nAmina Gautier (fiction judge) Gautier follows in the footsteps of the late nineteenth century African American intellectual (Chesnutt\, DuBois\, Harper\, and Hopkins) who merged both critical and creative talents. Her background as a scholar of 19th Century American literature and\, more generally\, African American literature combines with her training as a fiction writer such that she is both a critic and a creative writer\, fully engaged in the analysis and creation of literature. More than sixty of her short stories have been published\, appearing in Antioch Review\, Iowa Review\, The Kenyon Review\, North American Review\, Pleiades\, and Southern Review among others in addition to being anthologized in Best African American Fiction\, Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years\, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best\, 2008\, The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Writers on Forerunners in Fiction\, and Voices. Her fiction has been honored with the William Richey Prize\, the Jack Dyer Award\, the Danahy Fiction Award\, the Schlafly Microfiction Award\, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Award. Her short story collection At-Risk won the Flannery O’Connor Award and is published by University of Georgia Press. \nDavid Lazar (non-fiction judge) Lazar’s books include The Body of Brooklyn and Truth in Nonfiction (both Iowa)\, Powder Town (Pecan Grove); Michael Powell: Interviews and Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher (both Mississippi). Forthcoming is Essaying the Essay from Welcome Table Press. His essays and prose poems have appeared widely in anthologies such as Understanding the Essay\, An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Sentence)\, and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America\, and magazines such as Gulf Coast\, Black Clock\, Sentence\, Denver Quarterly\, Best of the Prose Poem\, Southwest Review\, etc. and five of his essays have been “Notable Essays of the Year” according to Best American Essays. He created the undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in Nonfiction writing at Ohio University\, and directed the creation of the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika\, now in its tenth year. \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/2012-prose-awards-for-short-fiction-and-non-fiction/
LOCATION:Chopin Theatre\, 1543 W. Division (near Milwaukee and Ashland)\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121021T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121021T210000
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SUMMARY:"Unnatural Spaces" - a new project from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/unnatural-spaces-a-new-project-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121020T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120404T135252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T172933Z
UID:1101-1350759600-1350766800@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1101/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121020T163000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120814T020013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T173012Z
UID:1598-1350745200-1350750600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Crafting Castoffs into "Unnatural Spaces"
DESCRIPTION:As part of Chicago Artists Month\, the Guild and Voice of the City will host a workshop featuring the Set Designer and Costume Designer for the Poetry Performance Incubator show “Unnatural Spaces” (playing Fridays\, Saturdays and Sundays in October). Because the show’s theme is the environmental complexities of urban living\, as part of the creative development process\, the designers are using recycled and re-purposed materials to create the set\, props and costumes. In this workshop they will show and tell the methods they’ve used to harvest and manipulate the material.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/crafting-castoff-into-unnatural-spaces/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator,Special Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121019T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120404T135156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T173047Z
UID:1100-1350673200-1350680400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1100/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121017T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120725T201659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20121017T203754Z
UID:1562-1350502200-1350507600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Palabra Pura - "Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets"
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex continues its seventh year of its Palabra Pura bilingual poetry series with “Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets” on October 17\, 2012. The event is curated by Dr. Jochy Herrera and features poets from contratiempo magazine. The event will include poetry in Spanish\, English and a combination of both. Featured readers will include Jorge Montiel\, Silvia Goldman\, and Santiago Weksler. \n  \n\nABOUT CONTRATIEMPO\nAs a result of the literary and cultural needs of Spanish speaking writers of Chicago\, Contratiempo was born in 2003. Since its beginnings\, Contratiempo sought to preserve\, enrich\, and promote Latin American art and thought in Spanish through the pages of a monthly print and online magazine that\, in a few weeks\, will celebrate it s 100th consecutive issue! \n  \nABOUT THE CURATOR\n \nJochy Herrera has been a part of Contratiempo magazine since its beginnings\, and has served on its board of directors and editorial board. He is a native of the Dominican Republic and author of two books: Extrasistoles and Seducir los sentidos. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \nABOUT THE READERS\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJorge Montiel was born in Paterson\, New Jersey\, in 1986. He spent much of his life in Puebla\, Mexico\, where he attended the Palafoxian Seminary of Puebla. He arrived in Chicago in 2007 and currently studies philosophy and Spanish at Northeastern Illinois University. His poems have been published in the anthology En la 18 a la 1: Escritores  \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSantiago Weksler has not returned to Peru since he came to Chicago in 2001. He earns his living as a dog-walker. He is a photographer and a poet. He lives in Pilsen with his cat Danico and his friend Elena.de Contratiempo en Chicago (On 18th Street at 1 am: Contratiempo Writers in Chicago) \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSilvia Goldman was born in Uruguay. She moved to the US eleven years ago and recently relocated to the Chicago area. She has published poems as well scholarly articles in literary journals and online anthologies such as Maldoror: Revista de la ciudad de Montevideo; Revista de escritura & poéticas 7de7; Small Stations: Anthology of Poets; Rilce: Revista de filología hispánica; Inti: Revista de literatura hispánica\, and Rassegna Iberistica. In 2008 she published her first book of poetry entitled Cinco movimientos del llanto (Ediciones Hermes Criollo). In 2010 she received her PhD in Hispanic Studies from Brown University. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Romance Languages at Boston College and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at North Central College. Her research interests include Latin American poetry and poetics\, testimonial literature and film\, Performance Studies\, Transatlantic Studies\, and Memory Studies.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-migrating-words-contratiempo-poets/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121014T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120610T234601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T174920Z
UID:1410-1350241200-1350248400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:"Unnatural Spaces" - a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS**  Note: the Oct. 14 show is a special event – Unnatural Spaces: A Performance and Conversation – with The Public Square. More information available here. \n \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/unnatural-spaces-a-new-show-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator-3/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121014T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121014T153000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120710T194900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120918T215320Z
UID:1530-1350221400-1350228600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Teaching Artist Showcase: "Teaching in the Neighborhood"
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex presents a sampling of teaching artists who educate students in various\, diverse Chicago neighborhoods with its Teaching Artist Showcase series in collaboration with Woman Made Gallery\, now celebrating its 20th Anniversary with its 20 Neighborhoods project.\n\nThis is the second event in our series\, and it will featurewriters who teach in middle- and high-schools\, hospitals\, and other community spaces. They’ll share work done with\, inspired by or in contrast to their teaching and students and participate in an audience discussionabout writing\, teaching and learning. There will also be anopen mic\, and possibly some special guests as well – some of the students themselves!\n\nFeatured Artists \n\nAlice George‘s collection of poetry – This Must Be The Place – was published by Mayapple Press in 2008. Her work has also been published in magazines such as Field\, Diagram\, Quarter After Eight\, New Orleans Review and Sentence\, as well as in eight anthologies. She teaches poetry to students in K-12 classrooms independently and through Columbia College’s Project AIM. An article about her arts integration work with 5th graders appears in the current issue of Teaching Artist Journal. Alice is also an instructor within the University of Chicago’s Graham School Certificate in Creative Writing program\, and served as Faculty Advisor for the current Triquarterly issue\, published by Northwestern University. A native of Kentucky\, she lives and works in Evanston\, and is married to sound and installation artist Shawn Decker. Painting is her next frontier; more information about her writing\, teaching and art can be found at www.alicegeorge.org. \nEric Elshtain is a homemaker and poet. Through the non-profit foundation Snow City Arts\, he is the poet-in-residence at John H. Stroger\, Jr. Hospital where he conducts poetry and art workshops with patients ranging in age from six to 21. He has a PhD from the University of Chicago’s Committee on the History of Culture and he has been published in a wide variety of domestic and international journals\, in print and on-line; journals such as McSweeney’s\, Notre Dame Review\, Skald\, Fact-Simile\, the Denver Quarterly\, FIELD\, American Letters & Commentary\, New American Writing\, &c. He is the editor of the on-line poetry chapbook press Beard of Bees. \n  \nSusanna Lang’s first collection of poems\, Even Now\, was published in 2008 by The Backwaters Press. A chapbook\, Two by Two\, was released in October 2011 from Finishing Line Press\, and a new collection\, Tracing the Lines\, will be published by Brick Road Poetry Press in winter 2012. She has published original poems and essays\, and translations from the French\, in such journals as Little Star\, New Letters\, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review\, The Green Mountains Review\, The Baltimore Review\, Kalliope\, Southern Poetry Review\, World Literature Today\, Chicago Review\, New Directions\, and Jubilat. Book publications include translations of Words in Stone and The Origin of Language\, both by Yves Bonnefoy. She lives with her husband and son in Chicago\, where she teaches in the Chicago Public Schools. \n  \nToni Asante Lightfoot is a native of Washington\, DC. She has been writing\nand performing around the Western Hemisphere for 20 years. She is the\ncoeditor of Dre of AWord: a Tia Chucha Press anthology and edoti the It’s\nYour Mug 15th Anniversary Anthology. She was the director of writing\nprograms at Young Chicago Authors. When the economy turned she decided to\nhave the most mellow midlife crisis ever by going back to school for\nmassage therapy and acupuncture. She is also currently trying desperately\nto raise a 3 year old child and keep her writing from evolving around that. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/teaching-artist-showcase-teaching-in-the-neighborhood/
LOCATION:Woman Made Gallery\, 685 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching Artist Showcase
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120404T134826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T173542Z
UID:1098-1350154800-1350162000@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1098/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121012T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120404T134729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T173655Z
UID:1097-1350068400-1350075600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1097/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121007T190000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120610T170353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T173752Z
UID:1406-1349636400-1349636400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:"Unnatural Spaces" - a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/unnatural-spaces-a-new-show-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator-2/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121006T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121006T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120404T134628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T173901Z
UID:1096-1349550000-1349557200@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \n Unnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1096/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121006T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121006T163000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120814T015705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T173943Z
UID:1595-1349535600-1349541000@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Crafting Castoffs into "Unnatural Spaces"
DESCRIPTION:As part of Chicago Artists Month\, the Guild and Voice of the City will host a workshop featuring the Set Designer and Costume Designer for the Poetry Performance Incubator show “Unnatural Spaces” (playing Fridays\, Saturdays and Sundays in October). Because the show’s theme is the environmental complexities of urban living\, as part of the creative development process\, the designers are using recycled and re-purposed materials to create the set\, props and costumes. In this workshop they will show and tell the methods they’ve used to harvest and manipulate the material.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/crafting-castoffs-into-unnatural-spaces/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator,Special Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121005T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120403T222210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T174325Z
UID:1091-1349463600-1349470800@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:"Unnatural Spaces" - a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/unnatural-spaces-a-new-show-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee Ave.\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120928T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120928T170000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120709T193501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120816T162704Z
UID:1511-1348851600-1348851600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Submission Deadline for the 2012 Prose Awards for Short Fiction and Non-Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Guild’s annual contest awards two $250 prizes\, one for short fiction and one for short non-fiction. 2012 judges are Amina Gautier (fiction) and David Lazar (non-fiction). The submission deadline to enter this year’s contest (for email OR snail mail arrival)  is 5pm\, September 28th\, 2012. To complete your entry\, CLICK HERE for judge biographies and full submission guidelines – incomplete submissions cannot be considered.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/submission-deadline-for-2012-prose-awards-for-short-fiction-and-non-fiction/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:Special Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120919T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120725T202118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120810T174238Z
UID:1565-1348083000-1348088400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Intercambios Generaciónales con Palabras y Ritmos" (Generational Exchange with Words and Rhythms)
DESCRIPTION:Three Poets and a master percussionist demonstrate the continuing contributions of Puerto Ricans to Chicago literature. This evening is curated by Eduardo Arocho and features poet Judy Diaz\, poet/musician David Hernandez\, and percussionist and musician Peter Vale. \nCurator \nEduardo Arocho has been writing and performing poetry since 1992. He has been featured in many venues in Chicago including: Citiverse Poetry Series at the Sultzer Library\, The Institute for Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and the Guild Complex among others. His poetry has been published in OPEN FIST: Anthology of Young Illinois Poets\, by Tia Chucha Press (1993)\, POWERLINES: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex\, by Tia Chucha Press (2000) and EL CENTRO JOURNAL\, Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, Hunter College New York\, NY\, (2001). His career also includes performing on Chicago Public Radio\, the feature film Urban Poet by New Film Productions (2003) and the Documentary Flags of Steel by Mildred Amador (2008). As a freelance reporter his articles have appeared in several local Chicago newspapers\, as well as the National Public Radio program Latino USA: The Radio Journal of News and Culture. He is currently completing work on his forthcoming poetry manuscript\, Nació Maestro (New and Selected Poems). \nFeatured Artists \nJudith Díaz was born and raised in Humboldt Park\, earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Master’s in Educational Psychology for Youth Development at University of Illinois at Chicago. Judy has also worked as a youth advocate in Pilsen through the National Center for Latinos with Disabilities and as an Affordable Housing Community Organizer at Blocks Together in the West Humboldt Park community. Her involvement in Paseo Boricua began with Batey Urbano where she combined her passion for community building and poetry. Batey Urbano became the space where she worked with students of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School (PACHS) for the first time. She was inspired by their resiliency and became more interested in education. She began working as a mentor at PACHS in 2005. Currently\, Judy is the Dean of Student Affairs at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School. She dedicates herself to working with youth in the Humboldt Park community to provide educational alternatives and help them realize their potential to be agents of self/social transformation. \nDavid Hernandez He is a founding member of the Latino Arts movement and has continued this commitment as board member\, editor\, panelist and juror with the Poetry Foundation\, Illinois Arts Council and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. As a poet and educator\, he has touched the lives of over 600\,000 students from public schools\, community and regional programs\, to libraries\, colleges\, universities and professionals at agencies and corporations. He has organized student performances\, city-wide poetry festivals\, poetry contests and edited several anthologies of poetry. His grants\, awards and other recognition include being the 1st recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Outstanding Poet of Illinois award and the Illinois State Library Patron’s Choice award. In 1971 he founded Street Sounds-Chicago’s award-winning premier poetry/music group. \nPeter Vale‘s instruments include Congas\, Bongo and Timbales. He has performed with the following bands: Son Bayu\, Salsa Dulce\, Acusticos\, Joe Rendon & Friends\, Latin Inspiracion\, Suena Latin Jazz\, Taino DNA\, Albert Sierra & His Cuban Flavor\, and more. He studied Latin Percussion under Master Congero Osbaldo “Ogie” Merced.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-3/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120913T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120913T210059
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120709T195314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120709T195510Z
UID:1513-1347564600-1347570059@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Final Open Rehearsal with "Unnatural Spaces" from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:This will be the final sneak peek at the creative process behind the Poetry Performance Incubator’s new work-in-progress\, Unnatural Spaces\, before it premieres in October. The Incubator artists will do some of the types of writing and performance exercises they’ve been using for the past 9 months to develop the new show. They’ll even share some of their experiences working in this new hybrid of poetry and theater — some for the first time. So if you’ve ever been curious about the Incubator’s process for bringing poets together to write original stage work\, this is your last chance to see behind the curtain before the show opens in all its multidisciplinary\, multimedia and multi-voiced glory. (Learn more about the Incubator’s history and cast here. And see the latest conversations and observations among the Incubator cast on their facebook page\, blog and twitter too!)
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/final-open-rehearsal-with-unnatural-spaces-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator/
LOCATION:Voice of the City studio\, 3429 W. Diversey Avenue\, Suite 208\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120718T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120718T210059
DTSTAMP:20260515T103927
CREATED:20120531T011323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120531T012217Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Cross-Cultural Latino/a"
DESCRIPTION:This evening will showcase two poets with a passion for cross-cultural experiences – poetry that travels. \nCurator \nFrancisco Aragón is Director of Letras Latinas\, the national literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies\, University of Notre Dame\, and has been a member of the Institute since 2003. He has published\, edited or contributed to numerous poetry books and journals and his poems and translations have appeared in various print and web publications. He is a member of Macondo Writing Workshop and serves on the board of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). He holds degrees in Spanish from the University of California at Berkeley and New York University\, and an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis and the University of Notre Dame\, respectively. \nFeatured Poets \nErika L. Sánchez graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid\, Spain\, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She is currently a reader for Another Chicago Magazine\, a freelance bilingual book reviewer for Kirkus Reviews\, and a contributor for The Huffington Post and Mamiverse. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades\, Drunken Boat\, Witness\, Anti-\, Rhino\, Hunger Mountain\, Crab Orchard Review\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Copper Nickel\, and others. Her nonfiction has appeared in Jezebel\, Ms. Magazine\, and American Public Media. She is currently working on a memoir and poetry manuscript. erikalsanchez.com \nRichard Blanco was made in Cuba\, assembled in Spain\, and imported to the United States — meaning his mother\, seven months pregnant\, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born. Forty-five days later\, the family emigrated once more\, eventually settling in Miami where he was raised and educated. His acclaimed first book of poetry\, City of a Hundred Fires\, which explores the negotiation of cultural identity as a Cuban-American\, won the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press (1998). Since 1999\, Blanco has traveled extensively and lived in Guatemala\, Brazil\, Connecticut\, where he was Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Latino Literature\, and Washington DC\, where he taught at Georgetown and American University. His second book\, Directions to the Beach of the Dead continues to explore themes of home\, place\, and identity (University of Arizona Press\, Camino Del Sol Series\, 2005). His poems have appeared in major literary journals and anthologies\, including The Best American Poetry 2000\, Great American Prose Poems\, The Breadloaf Anthology of New American Poets\, and he has been featured on National Public Radio. Blanco received the John Ciardi Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, a Florida Artist Fellowship\, and a Residency Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A builder of bridges and poems\, Blanco earned both a bachelors of science degree in Civil Engineering (1991) and a Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1997) from Florida International University\, where he studied with Campbell McGrath. http://www.richard-blanco.com/ \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-cross-cultural-latinoa/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Spanish Harlem"
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Afro-Latino poetry – curated by Marta Collazo and featuring Jeanette. \nCurator \nMarta Collazo is a Puerto Rican woman born and raised in Lorain\, Ohio. She has lived in the Chicago area for the last fourty years. Collazo studied Communications and Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a social activist\, a mother\, an educator\, an athlete\, and a poet. She has performed her poetry at several venues throughout Chicago. She was included in the anthology Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest published by MARCH/Abrazo Press in 2001. \nFeatured Poet \nJeanette\,  born and raised in Humboldt Park \, currently serves the Humboldt Park community professionally as a therapist/clinician for both the Association House of Chicago as well as C4. As a clinician Just Jeanette is engaged in her life’s purpose working with individuals and families in crisis. Jeanette attended Malcolm X College for her Associates in Social Science\, Northeastern University for her Bachelor’s in Social Work and graduated from Dominican University with a Master’s in Social Work but is most proud of her graduation from The Family Learning Program @ The Puerto-Rican Cultural Center where she obtained her High School Diploma at the age of twenty six and learned to embrace her heritage\, her people\, and her voice. Jeanette was a member of The National Committee for the Release of The Puerto Rican Prisoners of War (Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre!) and is forever grateful for that experience and privilege. Jeanette’s written work mirror’s her professional work in that its intention is to provoke movement through self acceptance and self-empowerment. Jeanette is currently working on a series of children’s books designed to encourage the understanding of the beauty and importance of diversity and self love. Jeanette is also beginning the collection of works of young women of color in this and other communities in the hopes of compiling an Anthology that speaks to their diverse and similar experiences\, dreams\, and tears. Jeanette is the proud mother of four boys ages 22\, 16\,12\, and 6 and the stepmother of a beautifully unique 23 year old daughter all of whom challenge her regularly to avoid settling… at all costs. \nTresalyn Bray is a full-time mother of five\, writer\, and graduate student at Chicago State University in the MFA Creative Writing program. She has been writing for over twenty years in a variety of genres\, including but not limited to short stories\, flash fiction\, historical fiction\, non-fiction\, poetry\, theater\, and spoken word. She has performed with Performers or Writers for Women On Women’s issues (POWWOW) Performance Ensemble in the staged reading of Eve Ensler’s Any One of Us. Tresalyn has a passion for using both written and spoken word to give voice to those who cannot speak for themselves.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-spanish-harlem/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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