Palabra Pura: “Rooster Footed Devils”
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...
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La Bruquena 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United States
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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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Poetry Performance Incubator: “Tour Guides”
Beverly Arts Center 2407 West 111th StreetBeverly Arts Center The 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”,...
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Palabra Pura: “Telling Our Stories Through the Body”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorJoin 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. Erika L. Sánchez Erika...
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2013 Benefit: “Talkin’ Blues: a Tribute to Sterling Plumpp”
Rosa’s Blues Lounge 3420 W. ArmitageYou 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...
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Palabra Pura: “Noche de Novelas / Night of Novels”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorJoin us for a monthly bilingual poetry series, guest curated by Raul Dorantes and featuring Mark Litwicki, Martha Cecelia Rivera, and Febronio Zatarain. On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, Palabra Pura presents...
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BROOKSDAY
The Chicago Cultural Center 78 E Washington St.Guild Literary Complex, Third World Press, and The American Writers Museum present the first annual BROOKSDAY at The Chicago Cultural Center! Join us, as we are creating the first annual marathon...
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Printer’s Row Lit Fest
Printers Row Between Dearborn and Polk , ChicagoJoin us at this year's Printers Row Lit Fest for a special reading by past contest winners and poets from our Poetry Performance Incubator. Reading takes place at noon on...
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Palabra Pura: “Blood, Family, and Tears / Sangre, Familia y Lágrimas”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorOur monthly bilingual poetry event. Curated by Johanny Vázquez Paz featuring Dinorah Cortés-Vélez and Teresa Vázquez. Dinorah Cortés-Vélez Dinorah Cortés-Velez Dinorah Cortés-Vélez is from Isabela, Puerto Rico. She has resided...
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Applied Words: Broken Windows POSTPONED
Due to a severe weather forecast we have postponed tonight's event. Applied Words: "Broken Windows" will now be held on Tuesday, September 3, 2013. Visit the new event page for...
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Palabra Pura: “The Diaspora Daughters Speak”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorAfro-Latino(a)s/Caribbeans are challenged to reconcile what are seen as conflicting identities. The Guild Literary Complex sheds poetic light on the topic with “The Diaspora Daughters Speak,” the July installment of...
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Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards
Chopin Theater 1543 W DivisionGuild Literary Complex is pleased to announce the 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. Join us Tuesday July 23, 2013, 7:00 pm, at the Chopin Theater, 1542 W Division...
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Poetry Performance Incubator Auditions
Free Street Theatre 1419 W. Blackhawk St, Chicago, IL, United StatesThe Poetry Performance Incubator is seeking poets and other writers to collaborate on the creation of a workshop production of Like Bread, a new theatrical performance about making space for a creative life. We are...
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Applied Words: Broken Windows
Polish Triangle ChicagoIf urban design is the language of the city, where is the story – and who tells it? In Applied Words: on Architecture and the Urban Plan, the Guild Literary...
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Palabra Pura: Inspiration
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorPoets meet muse at the September installment of our monthly bilingual poetry series, Palabra Pura, curated by Irasema Gonzalez and featuring poets Diana Pando and Xánath Caraza. “Inspiration” takes place...
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Poetry: Work Is Love Made Visible
Jak's Tap 901 W. Jackson, Chicago, IL, United StatesWork Is Love Made Visible will feature visiting poet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and include Chicago authors Quaraysh Ali Lansana and Eduardo Arocho for an evening of working class poetry and...
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Poetry: What’s Class Got To Do With It??!!
Lunt Lake Co-op Apartments (Community Room) 1138 W Lunt, Chicago, IL, United StatesA reading on the theme of “working class poetry,” this is a program of Occupy Rogers Park Chicago and is co-sponsored by Guild Complex and Chicago Consortium For Working-Class Studies....
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Applied Words: Re-Built: Writers on Architecture and the Urban Plan
The Original Sears Tower 930 S. Homan Ave.If urban design is the language of the city, where is the story – and who tells it? In "Re-Built: Writers on Architecture and the Urban Plan" the Guild Literary...
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2013 Prose Awards
Chopin Theater 1543 W DivisionEvery fall we recognize outstanding short fiction and non-fiction from across the State of Illinois and award $250 cash prizes to one outstanding writer in each category. Please join us...
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Palabra Pura: Letras Latinas
The Poetry Foundation 61 W Superior St, Chicago, United StatesWe very pleased to be partnering with Poetry Foundation and Red Hen Press for this month's Palabra Pura. Celebrate the inaugural winner and judge of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry...
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Poetry Performance Incubator: Like Bread
Free Street Theater 1419 W Blackhawk StJoin us for an in-progress performance of the brand new Poetry Performance Incubator production, Like Bread. Inspired by the Roque Dalton poem “Like You,” Like Bread will explore the relationship between writing and...
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Poetry Performance Incubator: Like Bread
Free Street Theater 1419 W Blackhawk StJoin us for an in-progress performance of the brand new Poetry Performance Incubator production, Like Bread. Inspired by the Roque Dalton poem “Like You,” Like Bread will explore the relationship between writing and social...
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TONIC: a soulful celebration
Vincent Restaurant 1475 W Balmoral , ChicagoYou are cordially invited to TONIC: a soulful celebration! It's been a year of recognition and achievement for the Guild, from inaugurating Brooksday to receiving a major MacArthur Foundation grant....
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Palabra Pura: El Amor
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorOur monthly bilingual poetry night returns to its usual destination: the always-fabulous La Bruquena! Join us for this final Palabra Pura of the year as multimedia artist Miquel Lopez Lemus presents a cantologia...
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Chicago Book Expo
St. Augustine College 1345 W. ArgyleThe Guild will have a table at the Chicago Book Expo on Sunday, November 24 from 11am-5pm. The Chicago Book Expo has "Chicago’s best independent publishers and authors selling books,...
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Poetry off the Shelf: Eduardo C. Corral, Carmen Giménez-Smith, Sheryl Luna and Deborah Paredez
Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior StreetWe are very pleased to be partnering with the Poetry Foundation for a special Poetry off the Shelf. Inspired by Cave Canem and Kundiman, CantoMundo is a national collective for...
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An evening with M. Evelina Galang (wsg Angela Narciso Torres)
Women & Children First bookstore 5233 N. Clark Street, ChicagoAngel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery M. Evelina Galang will read from her new young adult novel, Angel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery at...
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