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  • GBOMA Finals 2019

    The Promontory 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. West, Chicago, IL, United States

    The Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA) is an annual poetry competition founded by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) and open to all Illinois residents over the age of 18. The top...

  • Incarcerated: Stories, Poetry and Perspectives

    Read/Write Library at the Justice Hotel 6108 North Kenmore, Chicago, IL, United States

    Information Wants to Be Free & So Do We A Pop Up Library on Communication, Control & Mass Incarceration In collaboration with Read/Write Library, the Guild Complex brings the stories from the formerly incarcerated. “Information Wants to Be Free & So Do We” asks audiences to question the idea that social, emotional, and intellectual control...

  • Final Palabra Pura of 2019 on Translation

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

    Join the Guild Literary Complex for the last Palabra Pura event of the year, hosted by Kolin Jordan and featuring Amaia Gabantxo and Andrew Hertzberg. Translation will be a theme...

  • Cyntoia Brown-Long: An Evening in Dialogue

    Mandel Hall 1131 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL, United States

    Join us for a powerful evening of dialogue between Dr. Tara Betts, the Literary Editor of New City, and author Cyntoia Brown-Long as they discuss her new book, Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System. 

    $5 – $20

  • One Poet/One Poem

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

    Join us for the Guild’s annual One Poet/One Poem event as part of our ongoing bi-lingual Palabra Pura reading series. Here are this year's participants: Emcee: Mary Hawley Readers: Emmanuel...

  • Cancelled: Backbone Press Chicago Reading

    Chopin Theater 1543 W Division

    The Guild Complex Presents: A reading with Backbone Press Featuring our 30 Writers to Watch Tara Betts and Faisal Mohyuddin, along with other Backbone Press authors Naoko Fujimoto, Allison Joseph,...

  • Cancelled: 30W2W Book Release & Reading

    Hopleaf 5148 N Clark St, Chicago, IL

    Join the Guild Literary Complex in celebrating the recent release of The Distance Between by Timothy J. Hillegonds, and a reading from Kenyatta Rogers, two of the Guild’s 30 Writers...

  • BrooksDay – Postponed

    BrooksDay 2020 will not be held on June 7th, due to COVID-19 restrictions. We're planning a date for the fall and will have more details soon.

  • Printers Row

    Printers Row Lit Fest 2020 has been postponed until September.

  • Book Release for Mike Puican’s Central Air

    The Poetry Foundation 61 W Superior St, Chicago, United States

    Book Release and Reading for Mike Puican's new book of poetry, Central Air.  September 17, 2020 7:00pm - 8:00pm, reception to follow Poetry Foundation Also featuring readings from Mary Hawley and...

  • GBOMA

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  • Musicality of Poetry: Marvin Tate

    Marvin Tate: Schoolyard of Broken Dreams as part of the Guild's Musicality of Poetry series More details coming soon.

  • Fuller Award: Reginald Gibbons

    Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL

    Fuller Award: Reginald GibbonsThursday, October 29, 2020 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Reginald Gibbons's prolific writing career has included publication of ten full-length poetry collections; a short story collection and a novel; numerous essays, reviews, columns, and translations; and as editor a myriad of anthologies. His work is widely anthologized and has many Gibbons many...

  • “From the Mississippi Delta” Sneak Peek, with Lifeline and Pegasus Theatres

    Lifeline Theatre 6912 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago, Illinois, United States

    This event is one of several community events, performances and conversations supporting Lifeline Theatre and Pegasus Theatre Chicago’s production FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA. For more details about the production and surrounding events, see the Pegasus Theatre’s website, their Facebook page, and Eventbrite. Part of Lifeline’s season programming, join the actors, director and a member of...

  • Exhibit B Presents: Seeing the Space Between Us | An Evening in Community with Diana Solís & Friends

    Pilsen Community Books 1102 W 18th St., Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Chicago icon Diana Solís will be joined by an intergenerational group of Latinx artists and writers for readings and a conversation about the past/present/future of Spanish language poetry in Chicago. The event will also celebrate Solís' recently released photography book, Luz: Seeing The Space Between Us, which tracks her return to photography and a matured...

    Free

  • One State Conference & Capital Day

    Hoogland Center for the Arts 420 S. 6th St., Springfield, Illinois, United States

    Join us in Springfield for the largest gathering of the arts and culture community in Illinois! Featuring a keynote address from J. Ivy, sessions hosted by arts leaders from all over the state, and a reception at the Governor’s Mansion hosted by First Lady MK Pritzker, the One State Conference will be an action-packed day...

    $30 – $225

  • Transvengence | Maurice Tracy + Open Mic on April 26th

    My Buddy's (Upstairs) 4416 N Clark St., Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Transvengence is back!  Launched in 2022 as part of the Guild's Press Room series, the brainchild of your host, Joss Barton, a trans performer, poet and writer.  This event will...

    Free

  • Feria del Libro (May 4-6)

    Ida Noyes Hall | University of Chicago 1212 E. 59th St., Chicago, Illinois

    Somos un colectivo de escritores y editoriales independientes con el propósito de promoverla obra en español propia de Estados Unidos. ¡PRÓXIMAMENTE! El español está vivito y coleando en Estados Unidos;...

  • Palabra Pura Poetry Pop-Up @ Feria del Libro

    Ida Noyes Hall | University of Chicago 1212 E. 59th St., Chicago, Illinois

    Palabra Pura Poetry Pop-Up featuring Carlos Cumpián, Inmagela Abreu, Beatriz Badikian-Gartler, and Jonny Fadez, with moderator Mary Hawley. This event is part of Feria del Libro (May 4-6).

    Free

  • Slam Diáspora @ Feria del Libro

    The Pub - University of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall (basement) 1212 E 59th St., Chicago, Illinois, United States

    ¡Abierto a poetas de todos estilos y edades! Desde quien apenas esta empezando a escribir, a quienes llevan décadas escribiendo-- todos están bienvenidos a participar. Sólo necesitas dos poemas Ubicado en El Pub, un bar en el beisman de la Universidad de Chicago Ida Noyes Hall. Se puede registrar en línea o el mismo día...

    Free

  • Black Feminist Poetics: From the Dirt to the Delta

    Pegasus at Chicago Dramatists 765 N. Aberdeen (May and Aberdeen), Chicago, Illinois

    This program explores the poetics inspired by From the Mississippi Delta. Saunte Harden-Tate, Nikki Patin, Mojdeh Stoakley and members of the Guild Complex will perform works written by Nina Simone, Beah Richards, Gwendolyn Brooks and other Black feminist poets and then perform their own pieces written as response, resulting in a poetic conversation about and...

    Free

  • TAKING ROOT: Poetry Event with the South Asia Institute

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    South Asia Institute 1925 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

    In honor of AAPI Month, the South Asia Institute and the Guild Literary Complex bring you TAKING ROOT. This arts event features an exhibition tour, poetry, music, book signing, and more... Poetry reading moderated by Faisal Mohyuddin, with poets George Abraham, Czaerra Galicinao Ucol, Samina Hadi-Tabassum, and Saba Keramati. Music by Maninder Singh. Documentation from...

    $5 – $10

  • 10th Annual BrooksDay

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    South Shore Cultural Center 7059 S South Shore Dr., Chicago, Illinois

    This year marks the 10th anniversary of BrooksDay! Join the Guild Literary Complex as we honor the legacy of poet Gwendolyn Brooks and celebrate the launch of One Poem, One Chicago, which starts with a reissue of Brooks' 1987 poetry collection Blacks (Third World Press). One Poem, One Chicago is a collaboration of the Poetry...

    Free

  • TransVengence | Aza Greenlee, Noa/Nomi Micaela Fields, and Ava Mirage Wanbli on June 20th

    My Buddy's (Upstairs) 4416 N Clark St., Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Join us for TransVengence with your host, Joss Barton! This month features readings by Aza Greenlee, Noa/Moni Micaela Fields, and Ava Mirage Wanbli. Doors open at 7pm upstairs at My Buddy's! Featuring: Noa Micaela (Nomi) Fields is an echodeviant* (*trans poets with hearing aids) in search of transversal wildness in her one and only captionless...

    Free

  • A Night with Ana Castillo

    Asmus/Hilton Gallery (Morgan Arts Complex, Bridgeport) 3622 S. Morgan St., Chicago, Illinois, United States

    In partnership with Hilton/Asmus Galleries, the Guild Complex will host a special reading with Ana Castillo from her new book, Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home. Joining her will be special guest, IL Poet Laureate Angela Jackson. The event will take place on Monday, June 26th, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm at the Hilton/Asmus Gallery, Bridgeport location (3622...

    Free

  • “…Advice at the beginning of the revolution” with Michael Warr + Tongo Eisen-Martin

    Haymarket House 800 W. Buena Ave., Chicago, Illinois

    As part of our Press Room series, join us for a reading and discussion with Bay Area authors, Michael Warr and Tongo Eisen-Martin (San Fransisco Poet Laureate) about their work, the nature of protest, and how the historical acts of revolution during the heyday of the Black Power Movement in the Bay Area have influenced...

    Free