• AWP Conference: Panel on Palabra Pura & Culturally Specific Reading Series

    Hilton Chicago, Wilford A (3rd Floor) 720 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, United States

    A panel on the history, evolution and future of culturally-specific reading series like Palabra Pura with a co-founder, former featured artists, curators and hosts of Palabra Pura.

    Conference Registration Fee
  • Palabra Pura “Forgiveness and Memory”

    La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    Curated by Yolanda Nieves with featured poets Lisa Alvarado & Kristiana Rae Colón Curator Dr. Yolanda Nieves, Assistant Professor, English, Wilbur Wright College Chicago, is creative director of The Vida Bella...

    Free
  • Applied Words/social activism

    Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 800 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL, United States

    The Guild Literary Complex of Chicago continues its 2012 season with its returning series, Applied Words, which explores creative writing’s intersection with an artistic discipline (e.g. music or visual art)...

  • Teaching Artist Showcase/Multi-University Student Open Mic

    Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone (take Dorchester to 61st street then head east; free street and lot parking), Chicago, IL, United States

    In our new Teaching Artist Showcase series, creative writers who also happen to be teachers will share creative work that was inspired by, developed with or otherwise related to their...

    Free
  • Palabra Pura “Lives Between Love and Darkness”

    La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs) 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    Curated by Gregorio Gómez and featuring Nora Leon and Martin Rubio Jr.   Curator Gregorio Gomez is the MC of Chicago's most infamous and longest running underground poetry venue at...

    Free
  • Palabra Pura “South of the Border: Way South”

    La Bruquena restaurant (2nd floor) 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    Curated by Beatriz Badikian Gartler and featuring Fernando Olszanski and Bernardo Navia. Curator Beatriz Badikian-Gartler was born and reared in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has lived in the Chicago area...

    Free
  • Open Rehearsal with Poetry Performance Incubator’s “Unnatural Spaces”

    Voice of the City Studio 3429 W. Diversey Avenue, Suite 208 (upstairs), Chicago, IL, United States

    Get a sneak peak at the creative process behind the Poetry Performance Incubator’s new work-in-progress, Unnatural Spaces. The Incubator artists will do some of the types of writing and performance...

    Free
  • 19th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award – final event

    Chopin Theatre 1543 West Division Street, Chicago, IL, United States

    The Guild Literary Complex closes out its 19th Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award competition with its final event: an American Idol-style evening of poetry performance and audience voting. The semifinalists...

    $5 – $7
  • Palabra Pura: “Spanish Harlem”

    La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs) 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    Exploring Afro-Latino poetry - curated by Marta Collazo and featuring Jeanette. Curator Marta Collazo is a Puerto Rican woman born and raised in Lorain, Ohio. She has lived in the...

    Free
  • Palabra Pura: “Cross-Cultural Latino/a”

    La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs) 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United States

    This evening will showcase two poets with a passion for cross-cultural experiences – poetry that travels. Curator Francisco Aragón is Director of Letras Latinas, the national literary program of the...

    Free
  • “Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator

    Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United States

    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...

    $5 – $15
  • Crafting Castoffs into “Unnatural Spaces”

    Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United States

    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...

    Free
  • Teaching Artist Showcase: “Teaching in the Neighborhood”

    Woman Made Gallery 685 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, United States

    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...

    Free
  • Palabra Pura – “Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets”

    La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United States

    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...

    Free
  • Crafting Castoffs into “Unnatural Spaces”

    Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United States

    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...

    Free