Gil Scott Heron – Passages, Interludes, Subtext n’ Understandin’
Join us for an evening of poetry, music and discussion of the legendary poet/musician/activist. Presented by the...
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Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone, Chicago, IL, United States
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19th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award – final event
Chopin Theatre 1543 West Division Street, Chicago, IL, United StatesThe 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...
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Palabra Pura: “Spanish Harlem”
La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs) 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United StatesExploring 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...
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Palabra Pura: “Cross-Cultural Latino/a”
La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs) 2726 W. Division, Chicago, IL, United StatesThis 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...
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Final Open Rehearsal with “Unnatural Spaces” from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Voice of the City studio 3429 W. Diversey Avenue, Suite 208, Chicago, IL, United StatesThis 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...
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Palabra Pura: “Intercambios Generaciónales con Palabras y Ritmos” (Generational Exchange with Words and Rhythms)
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesThree 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...
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Submission Deadline for the 2012 Prose Awards for Short Fiction and Non-Fiction
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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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Crafting Castoffs into “Unnatural Spaces”
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesAs 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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Teaching Artist Showcase: “Teaching in the Neighborhood”
Woman Made Gallery 685 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, United StatesThe 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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Palabra Pura – “Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesThe 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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Crafting Castoffs into “Unnatural Spaces”
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesAs 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new project from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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2012 Prose Awards for Short Fiction and Non-Fiction – Recognition Event
Chopin Theatre 1543 W. Division (near Milwaukee and Ashland), Chicago, IL, United StatesThe 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...
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Congratulations to the 2012 Prose Awards Finalists!
Chopin Theatre 1543 West Division Street, Chicago, United StatesCongratulations to following finalists of the 2012 Prose Awards (fiction and non-fiction)! Fiction Claire Bartlett Jason Lee Brown Sahar Mustafah Non-Fiction Suzanne Scanlon Ingrida Martinkus Jane Hertenstein ...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new project from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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Palabra Pura: “Rooster Footed Devils”
La Bruquena 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesThis 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...
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PALABRA PURA: “One Poet / One Poem”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Select a Country:PALABRA PURA: "ONE POET / ONE POEM" Wednesday, Janurary 16, 7:30pm, FREELa Bruquena Restaurant (Upstairs), 2726 W. Division The Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the eighth season of...
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Palabra Pura: “Weather / Whether”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Select a Country: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...
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Applied Words: “A Night of Love”
Fulton Street Collective 2000 W Fulton S, Select a Country:THE GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX and CHICAGO DANZTHEATRE ENSEMBLE PRESENT: “A NIGHT OF LOVE” “There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy...
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Palabra Pura: Poems as Stories, Stories as Poems
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Select a Country:Dawn Herrera Featuring 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,...
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