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SUMMARY:GBOMA 30th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Complex will celebrate thirty years of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA)\, with performances from past winners along with a special celebration of the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book\, Annie Allen\, at the Chicago History Museum in the Robert McCormick Auditorium. Reception at 6:00pm and 7:00pm event start. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public\, but you must RSVP in advance to reserve your seat. To get your ticket and more information regarding the 30th anniversary GBOMA event\, visit the ticket link below. 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gboma-30th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Chicago History Museum\, 1601 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60614
CATEGORIES:GBOMA
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SUMMARY:ECOS Pop-up Gallery Readings with Guild Literary Complex
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of ECOS: A Chicago Latine Poetry Festival\, which celebrates Chicago’s relationship with and influence on Latine poetry. Sponsored by the Poetry Foundation\, the festival features free\, bilingual Spanish and English programming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSometimes a poem is the perfect accompaniment to visual art! Join poets from the Guild Literary Complex as they recite poems in the galleries of the National Museum of Mexican Art. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to enjoy art and poetry at the same time! Approximate schedule with readers below: \n\n\n\n2:00-2:40pm Palabra Pura Poets\n\n\n\n\nRuben Quesada\n\n\n\nféi hernandez\n\n\n\nMarisa Tirado\n\n\n\nAngelique Zorbitz\n\n\n\n\n2:45pm – 3:30pm eXpuestXs Poets\n\n\n\n\nMiguel Mendez Arbizu\n\n\n\nom ulloa\n\n\n\nLuis Tubens\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to register in advance. For more information about accessibility\, visit the National Museum of Mexican Art’s Accessibility Page. 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/ecos-pop-up-gallery-readings-with-guild-literary-complex/
LOCATION:National Museum of Mexican Art\, 1852 W 19th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:CLHoF Fuller Award: Alex Kotlowitz
DESCRIPTION:Registration is now open. On September 24\, Alex Kotlowitz will become the 17th recipient of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for his lifetime achievements. The ceremony will be free and open to the public\, with a reception to follow. Ben Austen will lead a speaking lineup that includes Stuart Dybek\, Julie Justicz\, Meribah Knight\, and Mary Rowland. The Chopin Theatre ceremony will highlight Kotlowitz’s lasting importance as one of our greatest storytellers. At the end of the program\, Dawn Turner will lead a conversation with Alex. The ceremony\, starting at 7 p.m.\, and the following reception are free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Registration is required. Along with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame and Chopin Theatre\, co-presenters for the evening include American Writers Museum\, Bookends & Beginnings\, David Black Agency\, Frame Warehouse\, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism\, Ragdale Foundation\, and Write On\, Door County. \n\n\n\nAs a Manhattan native\, Alex Kotlowitz’s career in journalism sent him around the country. He took a reporting position for The Wall Street Journal\, which sent him to Chicago\, and it wasn’t long before Kotlowitz fell in love with the city. For forty years\, Kotlowitz has been telling deeply intimatetales of struggle and perseverance. He is the author of four books\, including his most recent\, An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago (2019)\, which received the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. His other books include the Chicago-based Never a City So Real (2004) and the national bestseller There Are No Children Here (1991)\, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. It was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year along with his second book\, The Other Side of the River (1998) which also received The Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Nonfiction.  \n\n\n\nA former staff writer at The Wall Street Journal\, Kotlowitz’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, and This American Life. His stories have been featured in Granta\, Rolling Stone\, The Chicago Tribune\, Slate\, and The Washington Post\, as well as on PBS and NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition. His play\, An Unobstructed View\, written with Amy Drozdowska\, premiered in Chicago in June 2005. \n\n\n\nKotlowitz has also produced a significant body of film and radio work. His documentary\, The Interrupters (2011)\, a collaboration with Steve James\, was cited as one of the best films of the year by The New Yorker\, The Chicago Tribune\, Entertainment Weekly\, and The LA Times. He received an Emmy\, a Cinema Eye Award\, and an Independent Spirit Award for the film.  \n\n\n\nKotlowitz has been honored in all three mediums\, including two Peabodys\, two Columbia duPonts\, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award\, and the George Polk Award. He’s the recipient of eight honorary degrees\, the John LaFarge Memorial Award for Interracial Justice given by New York’s Catholic Interracial Council\, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters\, one of Chicago Magazine’s 2019 Chicagoans of the Year\, and the 2019 Harold Washington Literary Award.  \n\n\n\nAlex is currently a professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism\, where he’s been teaching since 1999. He’s been a writer-in-residence at the University of Chicago\, a visiting professor for seven years at the University of Notre Dame\, a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College\, and a Distinguished Visitor at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  \n\n\n\nRegistration for the Fuller Award ceremony will open soon.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/clhof-fuller-award-alex-kotlowitz/
LOCATION:Chopin Theatre\, 1543 West Division Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60642\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chicago Literary Hall of Fame,Partner Event
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SUMMARY:A Performance Happening 3 @ Alma Art & Interiors
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special night of artistic brilliance with “A PERFORMANCE HAPPENING ” at ALMA Art and Interiors. We are thrilled to host this event\, bringing together an all-star lineup of dancers and musicians\, surrounded by stunning visual art. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event\n\n\n\nPrepare for an unforgettable experience as you immerse yourself in a vibrant atmosphere filled with music\, dance\, and creativity. This is the third installment of our exciting event series\, and we can’t wait to share it with you. Mark your calendars\, bring your friends\, and join us for an evening of entertainment and fun. \n\n\n\nPerformances by:\n\n\n\n\nBLUE COLLAR ROCK STARS\n\n\n\nCHICAGO MASK ENSEMBLE\n\n\n\nALTHEA TEAMER\n\n\n\nHOBBYIST\n\n\n\nTHE GRATES & SILIS101\n\n\n\nJESSE DARNAY\n\n\n\nAMANDA SAUCEDO\n\n\n\nBILLY TUGGLE\n\n\n\nKAO RA ZEN\n\n\n\nTHESSELONIOUS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCurated by: Kao Ra Zen
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/a-performance-happening-3-alma-art-interiors/
LOCATION:ALMA Art and Interiors\, 3636 S Iron St\, Chicago\, 60609\, United States
CATEGORIES:Musicality of Poetry
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SUMMARY:Slam Diáspora En Vivo
DESCRIPTION:6:30– Doors open/Sign Up7:00– Slam Starts8:30– Open Mic9:00– ¡ADIOS! \n\n\n\n¡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 (en español/spanglish) para el Slam o un poema/canción/relato etc en cualquier idioma para el Open Mic.Se puede registrar en línea o el mismo día en persona: https://bit.ly/vivoslamCreemos que la poesía le pertenece a todxs\, y que todxs traemos poesía adentro. Este Slam es para experimentar\, jugar\, y dejar que la palabra fluya.Recuerden: el punto no son los puntos\, sino la comuna. Queremos crecer como comunidad poética\, e invitar a nuevas personas a participar como audiencia\, cómo poetas\, y cómo amantes de la palabra viva.Slam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de los EEUU y busca crear un espacio que une poetas Latinx en los EEUU con poetas en Latinoamérica para fomentar una comunidad poética a pesar de las fronteras.¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo!Gracias a Guild Literary Comple por apoyar este proyecto *******Open to poets of all styles and ages! From anyone who is just starting\, to anyone who has been writing for decades\, are all welcome to participate. All you need to Slam are 2 poems– for the open mic you can bring anything in any language at all to share.You can register online or on the same day\, in person:https://bit.ly/vivoslamRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the community. We want to nurture a poetic community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers.We believe that poetry pertains to everyone\, and that all of us carry it within us. This slam is to experiment\, play\, and to let the words flow.Slam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in the U.S. and aims to create a space that unites Latinx poets in the US with poets in Latin America\, to form a poetry community despite borders.Participants and winners from last year can participate again!Thank you to the Guild Literary Complex 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-en-vivo/
LOCATION:18th Street Casa de Cultura\, 2057 West 18th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240908T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240908T170000
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CREATED:20240815T213429Z
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SUMMARY:Printers Row Lit Fest | Annie Allen — Now: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:As its 75th anniversary approaches\, Nora Brooks Blakely (Brooks Permissions) and Reginald Gibbons (Northwestern University) discuss the modern relevance and contemporary ideas from Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-wining book Annie Allen.  \n\n\n\nProgram moderated by Adrian Matejka\, Editor of Poetry magazine.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrinters Row Lit Fest is a free event on the streets of South Dearborn\, from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street in Chicago\, IL. The literary festival will run from 10am-6pm on Saturday\, 9/7\, and Sunday\, 9/8. Learn more about the festival here. \n\n\n\nLocation: Center Stage
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/printers-row-lit-fest-annie-allen-now-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Printers Row Lit Festival\, Dearborn and Polk Streets\, Chicago\, 60605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240907T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240907T130000
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SUMMARY:Printers Row Lit Fest: Exhibit B
DESCRIPTION:Christian Aldana\, Lindsay Hunter\, Jessica Nirvana Ram\, and Dan “Sully” Sullivan join Exhibit B for a special reading at the Midwest’s largest literary festival\, Printers’ Row Lit Festival! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrinters Row Lit Fest is a free event on the streets of South Dearborn\, from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street in Chicago\, IL. The literary festival will run from 10am-6pm on Saturday\, 9/7\, and Sunday\, 9/8. Learn more about the festival here.  \n\n\n\nLocation: Center Stage
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/printers-row-lit-fest-exhibit-b/
LOCATION:Printers Row Lit Festival\, Dearborn and Polk Streets\, Chicago\, 60605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit B
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240906T210000
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SUMMARY:Transvengence | September 2024
DESCRIPTION:September’s Transvengence features Aza Greenlee with your host\, Joss Barton. \n\n\n\nDoors open and open mic sign-up begins at 7pm.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAza Greenlee is a body artist and co-conspirator at No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab. This coalescence is one to galavant in dreamscapes\, ancestral juke joints\, chaturbate masturbation web temples\, loose-tooth tanks\, and The Heartspace. They organize “Smudge Cinema Project”\, a now-and-then-wait-when? screening series that takes a look at what happens when a film is projected on a wall for people to watch. Metabolization seems to be what they appear to do\, lately.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-september-2024/
LOCATION:Clash on Clark\, 4416 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240905T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240905T230000
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SUMMARY:Ananda Lima & Daniel Borzutzky In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:A special conversation and reading with award-winning authors Ananda Lima and Daniel Borzutzky about their latest releases\, moderated by poet Alex Wells Shapiro. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnanda Lima is a poet\, fiction writer\, and translator\, the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books\, 2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press\, 2021)\, winner of the Hudson Prize.  Her work has appeared in four chapbooks\, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press)\, as well as publications such as The American Poetry Review\, Poets.org\, Kenyon Review\, Gulf Coast\, Witness\,  and elsewhere.   She has been awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing\, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers and has served as a mentor at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Program. Lima currently serves as a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio\, Chicago. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University\, Newark. Craft\, her fiction debut\, has received starred reviews from Kirkus Review\, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal\, and The New York Times describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent.” Originally from Brazil\, she lives in Chicago. \n\n\n\nDaniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator. His most recent book is Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018. His 2016 collection\, The Performance of Becoming Human received the National Book Award. Lake Michigan (2018) was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His most recent translation is Paula Ilabaca Nuñez’s The Loose Pearl (2022)\, winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia received ALTA’s 2017 National Translation Award\, and he has also translated collections by Raúl Zurita\, and Jaime Luis Huenún. He teaches English and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A forthcoming collection\, The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (Coffee House Press)\, will be published in 2024.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/ananda-lima-daniel-borzutzky-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Pilsen Community Books\, 1102 W 18th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Applied Words,Exhibit B
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SUMMARY:Exhibit B: The Poets Platform
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit B will be joined by artists using the Democratic Party platform as a prompt. We are proud to be part of DEMOCRAZY FEST going on from Aug 8-18th at Co-Prosperity with Lumpen Magazines!  \n\n\n\nIdeally\, community feedback would directly impact policy. In this moment where many folks feel either entirely removed from the political process or overwhelmed by it\, Exhibit B will be joined by artists using the Democratic Party platform as a prompt. We are proud to be part of DEMOCRAZY FEST going on from Aug 8-18th at Co-Prosperity! More about DEMOCRAZY FEST: The Democratic National Convention is coming back to Chicago this August 19-22\, and the Left is coming back to protest\, too! Public Media Institute is coordinating a collaborative welcome to artists and activists coming into town. We’re Lump’n it all together under the theme of “Democrazy.” We are living in the legacy of the 1968 DNC protests when activists and artists came together in our city to fight war with love but were met with police violence and state repression. Lumpen 142: Democrazy will revisit these histories while prioritizing the urgent contemporary movements that will bring people back to our streets this year.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/exhibit-b-the-poets-platform/
LOCATION:Co-Prosperity\, 3219 S Morgan St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608
CATEGORIES:Applied Words,Exhibit B
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SUMMARY:Chicago House Music: Culture + Community
DESCRIPTION:Reading and panel discussion with book author\, Marguerite L. Harrold along with Khari B\, Discopoet\, Founder of The Debauchery Ball and veteran House music DJ Michael Ikechukwu Ezebuku. \n\n\n\nIncluding a special highlights viewing from the PBS documentary\, House Music: A Cultural Revolution with Barbara Allen\, Director and Producer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarguerite L. Harrold is a Poet\, Writer\, Educator\, Community Activist and Ecologist\, originally from Chicago. She is the author of Chicago House Music\, Culture and Community. She earned an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. She is an Associate Editor for Prairie Schooner\, the Educational Promotions Manager for African Poetry Book Fund at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\, where she is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing. Marguerite was nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize (Matador Review).  She was also nominated for a 2020 Illinois Arts Council grant (Chicago Review) and was a 2020 finalist for an Allied Arts Council grant. She is a member of the Community of Writers and attended the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Conference and was a 2021/2022 Hugo House Fellow. Her work has been published in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, Chicago Review\, RHINO\, Anti-Heroin Chic and other journals.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/chicago-house-music-culture-community/
LOCATION:Co-Prosperity\, 3219 S Morgan St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240810T153000
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SUMMARY:Self-Care as Resistance: Ekphrastic Poetry Reading @ Epiphany Center for the Arts
DESCRIPTION:Caring for ourselves helps us to be more present in the world. Becoming aware of those areas where we might need additional support and asking for help can be scary but\, in the end\, it is what makes us stronger. The Guild Complex presents five writers who words help tell their stories of finding strength while battling body positivity\, mental illness\, depression and grief. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: Kwabena Foli\, April Gibson\, Sam Herschel\, Faylita Hicks\, and Jennifer Karmin \n\n\n\nLocation: The Guild Room at Epiphany Center for the Arts \n\n\n\nThis special program takes place at the Epiphany Center for the Arts in the midst of a powerful art exhibition\, RESET\, and will include a special artist talk with the artist\, Dwight White. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKWABENA FOLI is a multidisciplinary artist born in Belgium but predominately raised in the South Side of Chicago. He is the author of ON GOD (Candor Arts)\, and learning rhythm (Flowered Concrete). Other publications include The Los Angles Review\, Meridian\, Crab Orchard Review\, Salt Hill Journal and elsewhere. He is also a Chicago poetry slam champion\, national poetry slam finalist\, and selected by the Guild Literary Complex as 30 individuals whose careers represent the future of the literary arts in Chicago and beyond. His visual work has over 200 million shares\, and residences include Ragdale\, Banff Centre of Arts\, Chicago HATCH\, Elastic Arts\, and Poetry Center of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL GIBSON is a poet\, writer\, and professor from the South Side of Chicago. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Rhino Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award among other honors. She teaches in the Department of English\, Literature\, and Speech at Malcolm X College. Her poetry collection The Span of a Small Forever was published by Amistad/HarperCollins in 2024.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAYLITA HICKS is a queer Afro-Latinx multidisciplinary artist\, writer\, hoodoo practitioner\, and cultural strategist advocating for people directly impacted by the carceral system. An Art for Justice Fund grantee\, voting member of the Recording Academy\, and winner of the 2020 Sappho Poetry Award from Palette Poetry\, they are the author of A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books\, 2024) and HoodWitch (Acre Books\, 2019)\, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. Currently based in Chicago\, they are working on their forthcoming memoir about their pretrial incarceration\, A Body of Wild Light (Haymarket Books\, 2026)\, their next contemporary jazz-infused spoken word album\, and a digitally immersive performance piece tentatively entitled The Echoes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJENNIFER KARMIN has published\, performed\, exhibited\, taught\, and experimented with language across the U.S.\, Cuba\, Japan\, Kenya\, and Europe.  As a founding curator of the Red Rover Series\, she has often led ensembles of poets improvising together at festivals\, artist-run spaces\, and on city streets.  Widely published in anthologies and journals\, her books include the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice and The Sexual Organs of the IRS a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer.  Since 2000 she has worked with immigrants and refugees at Truman College\, using creative writing to support literacy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSAM HERSCHEL WEIN is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. They have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee and were the recipient of a 2022 Pushcart Prize. They have published three chapbooks\, most recently Butt Stuff Flower Bush with Porkbelly Press. He co-founded and edits Underblong. Recent poems can be found in the American Poetry Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, and Shenandoah\, among others. They can be found in the cheese aisle of most stores\, in the middle of a hug\, or editing poems at your local coffee shop.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/self-care-as-resistance-ekphrastic-poetry-reading-epiphany-center-for-the-arts/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: One Poet\, One Poem
DESCRIPTION:Palabra Pura presents ONE POET\, ONE POEM  \n\n\n\nJoin the Guild Literary Complex July 17th for our annual Palabra Pura: One Poet\, One Poem @ La Bruquena! \n\n\n\nAll poets are welcome to the stage to perform a poem\, whether it be in English or Spanish\, or both. \n\n\n\nSee old friends and meet new ones\, enjoy delicious Puerto Rican food and drinks\, and listen to some bilingual poetry!– – –Palabra Pura presenta UN POETA\, UNA POEMA \n\n\n\nAcompáñanos el 17 de julio para nuestro evento anual Palabra Pura: Un Poeta\, un poema en La Bruquena! \n\n\n\nTodos las poetas están bienvenidos a compartir un poema\, en inglés\, español\, o ambos. \n\n\n\n¡Conoce amigos nuevos y viejos\, disfruta la comida puerto riqueña y bebidas\, y escucha poesía bilingüe!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-one-poet-one-poem-3/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, 60622\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Fuller Award: Patricia Smith
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame\, American Writers Museum\, and Guild Literary Complex\, the ceremony will present Chicago poet Patricia Smith with the Fuller Award for her lifetime contributions to literature. Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young will lead a lineup of presenters that includes Nora Brooks Blakely\, Reginald Gibbons\, Poetry Out Loud National Champion Niveah Glover\, Adrian Matejka\,  Marc Smith\, and Jamila Woods. Lynne Thompson will moderate a conversation with Ms. Smith at the end of the program.   \n\n\n\nPatricia Smith was born in Chicago and raised on the city’s West Side. She attended Southern Illinois University\, Northwestern University\, and the University of Southern Maine. She has had a distinguished literary career as a poet\, spoken-word performer\, author\, and teacher. Individual awards include four National  Poetry Slam championships\, the 2023 Aiken Taylor Award\, and the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation. Smith is a 2022 inductee to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\,  Guggenheim fellow\,  Civitellian\,  National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient\,  finalist for the Neustadt Prize\,  two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize\, and a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.   \n\n\n\nThe Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s (CLHOF) Fuller Award was inspired by Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929)\, author\, editor\, poet\, critic\, and composer\, one of Chicago’s earliest novelists\, and the author of The Cliff-Dwellers (1893) and With the Procession (1891). It is awarded annually to a writer with strong Chicago roots who has made a significant lifetime contribution to literature. CLHOF’s’s mission is “To honor and preserve Chicago’s great literary heritage—past\, present\, and future.”CLHOF is a not-for-profit organization.  \n\n\n\n*** \n\n\n\nIn-Person Attendance:Masks are strongly encouraged and available at check-in for those who would like to wear one. The Foundation reserves the right to update this policy if community levels of COVID-19 increase significantly. Read our full COVID-19 Health & Safety Guidelines. Guests are encouraged to register in advance. \n\n\n\nLivestream Attendance:The livestream link will be shared with registered guests on the day of the event. In order to receive the livestream details\, please register in advance.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/chicago-literary-hall-of-fame-fuller-award-patricia-smith/
LOCATION:The Poetry Foundation\, 61 W Superior St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chicago Literary Hall of Fame,Partner Event
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SUMMARY:A Map of My Want | Book Launch and Celebration with Faylita Hicks
DESCRIPTION:A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme on their long walk home from a rural county jail as they contemplate how threesomes\, quantum mechanics\, beaches and nature hikes led them to an epic journey of sexual liberation.An offspring of Audre Lorde’s seminal essay “Uses of the Erotic\,” Hicks’s A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme as they explore the sensual intersection of the personal and the political\, a crossroads to which their sexual liberation brought them after their escape from a religious cult. Lyrically\, Hicks interprets the US Declaration of Independence’s infamous “life\, liberty\, and the pursuit of happiness” for themselves. Combining storytelling with Western astrology\, this poetry collection is an intimate erotic spell through which Hicks conjures joy as they develop an alternate theory on how to attain happiness—through ecstatic healing. A Map Of My Want is available from Haymarket here.  \n\n\n\nPraise:\n\n\n\n“A Map of My Want is an essential collection that burns with resilience\, eroticism\, and the pursuit of freedom on every page.”—Ruben Quesada\, author and editor of Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry“Faylita Hicks’s A Map of My Want is a poetic knowing of jail\, sleeping cots\, bills\, and of riding feral pleasures beyond to the self’s heat. Their poetry sings\, and invites the reader to sing along—ecstatically.” —Maud Lavin\, author of Push Comes to Shove“Each poem in A Map Of My Want is a special magic that inhabits the deepest parts of the psyche\, digs in\, and resists forgetting.”—Airea D. Matthews\, author of Bread and Circus“A Map of My Want vividly paints a theology of self-love\, one that transcends the shifting world around it and somehow anchors us\, firm-footed\, in the wanderlust of belonging.”—Deborah Mouton\, author of Black Chameleon“Reading A Map of My Want—so muscular\, impassioned\, and wide-awake—it’s not difficult to believe that bull’s-eye poetry is alchemy\, that healing the un-nursed self is healing the world.” —Cyrus Cassells\, author of Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?“Too often we are fooled into thinking we are in control of our desires—Faylita Hicks is gracious in the correction of our folly\, in reminding us that the body always draws the map\, and we merely follow it.” —Taylor Byas\, author of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times \n\n\n\n***This in person event will be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event.  \n\n\n\nWe ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.*** \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nFaylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer\, spoken word artist\, and cultural strategist. Newly based in Chicago\, Illinois\, Hicks is the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch (Acre Books\, 2019)\, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry\, the 2019 Julie Suk Award\, and the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize. \n\n\n\nAndrea Change is poet\, writer\, Executive Director and a long-time friend of the Guild Complex. She has been a part of the Chicago poetry community for over 20 years. Her work has been published in a number of poetry magazines\, journals and included in such poetry anthologies from Tia Chucha Press as Powerlines and Stray Bullets. Her poetry was also included in the 2001 Steppenwolf Theatre production\, Words on Fire.Adrian Matejka is the author of 7 books\, most recently the graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century which was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library. He is the editor of Poetry magazine. \n\n\n\nBilly Tuggle is a South Side Chicago native\, a renowned writer\, vocalist\, performance poet and event producer; a mentor\, an activist and HipHop culturalist; recorded\, published\, a poetry slam champion. He is the author of A Tree Falls in The Hood (Swimming With Elephants\, 2024). He will be joined by youth performer\, Carmendy Tuggle. \n\n\n\nRuben Quesada’s sophomore collection of poetry\, Brutal Companion\, winner of the Barrow Street Editors Prize\, will be available on October 15\, 2024. He edited the groundbreaking anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (2022)\, winner of the Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Awards. He is the author of two chapbooks—Jane (2023) and Revelations (2018) and a collection of poetry\, Next Extinct Mammal (2011). His poetry and criticism appear in The New York Times Magazine\, Best American Poetry\, Ploughshares\, Harvard Review and elsewhere. He teaches for the low-residency MFA Programs in Creative Writing at Antioch University and Cedar Crest College. He lives in Chicago. \n\n\n\nMore speakers coming soon! \n\n\n\nThis celebration is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Guild Literary Complex\, Illinois Humanities\, ICL Ltd. Co. and L&A Healing Studio.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/a-map-of-my-want-book-launch-and-celebration-with-faylita-hicks/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:Transvengence: Pride Edition
DESCRIPTION:June 2024: Transvengence\, Pride Month – Turn Up! Edition \n\n\n\nFeaturing Jack and Lynzo the Heartthrob\, with your host\, Joss Barton.  \n\n\n\nOpen mic starts at 7:30pm.  \n\n\n\nLearn more about Transvengence here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynzo The Heartthrob is a born & bred Chicagoan; an exotic dancer with a background in ballet\, modern\, and African dance teachings. Emceeing/producing Black LGBTQIA events\, Mixology\, Plus Size Styling\, Dance (both exotic and traditional) teachings carries Lynzo across the stages of Chicago\, Los Angeles\, & London\, England. Chicago’s Big Titty Heartbreaker! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJack is a 25 year old transsexual woman who has lived in Chicago since 2023. Like her trans woman fam\, she is interested in story telling\, whores\, and trans identity formation through experiences of medicalization & violence.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoss Barton is a writer\, journalist\, and spoken word performance artist exploring and documenting queer and trans* life\, love\, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the soundtrack of the American nightmare. Combining prose poetry\, non-fiction confessional essays\, drag artistry\, and spoken word stage performances\, Joss examines the myriad states of queer trans womanhoods from historical\, political\, and pop cultural identities of death\, desires\, dreams\, and disco. 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-pride-edition/
LOCATION:Clash on Clark\, 4416 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:Girl Work: Book Launch w/ Zefyr Lisowski
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch of Girl Work (Noemi\, 2024) with author Zefyr Lisowski\, featuring performances from Kemi Alabi\, Donna “Dante” Marie Gary\, and Robin Reid Drake\, hosted by Alanis Zoë Castillo Caref.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/girl-work-book-launch-w-zefyr-lisowski/
LOCATION:Pilsen
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240530T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240530T213000
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CREATED:20240513T212613Z
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SUMMARY:Slam Diáspora Encuentro Nacional 2024: Mayo/Primera Ronda
DESCRIPTION:COMENZAMOS! Ciclo oficial de Slam Diaspora— 30 de Mayo\, 8pm hora chicago ✨🔥✨ \n\n\n\nRegistracion abierta a cualquier poeta de reside en territorio EEUU! http://bit.ly.com/mayoslam24  \n\n\n\nSlam Diaspora es un colectivo que busca unir a poetas de la diáspora latinoamericana con poetas en latinoamérica usando el slam como nuestro punto de encuentro. que viva la poesía viva!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-encuentro-nacional-2024-mayo-primera-ronda/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Slam Diáspora
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SUMMARY:Exhibit B at Pilsen Community Books
DESCRIPTION:Fulla Abudul-Jabbar\, Ignatius Valentine Aloysius\, Tamara Mattews and Nat Holtzmann will be joining Exhibit B at Pilsen Community Books for an evening of readings and community.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/exhibit-b-at-pilsen-community-books/
LOCATION:Pilsen Community Books\, 1102 W 18th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit B
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SUMMARY:Who Loves the Sun | Chicago Book Launch and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join author Fulla Abdul-Jabbar in conversation with Mika Yamamoto for a celebration of her new book\, Who Loves the Sun\, with performances from Samara Huggins and Sonnenzimmer.  \n\n\n\nWho Loves the Sun begins as a study of the scientific poster\, in an attempt to understand the object and the people who make them. Eventually focus strays from this subject to explore how the emotional\, personal\, and expressive leak from all structures that attempt to contain the self\, be they molecular\, disciplinary\, or typographic. Composed of seven chapters\, each taking a different form—from email to lecture to personal essay to mourning diary— Who Loves The Sun ultimately embraces the failure of form. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by Meekling Press\, the Guild Complex and Haymarket Books.  \n\n\n\n***We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.*** \n\n\n\nFulla Abdul-Jabbar is a writer and artist living in Brooklyn. She has performed\, screened\, and exhibited nationally and internationally at the Electronic Literature Organization\, Human Resources LA\, the Brussels Independent Film Festival\, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her writing has appeared in DIAGRAM\, Bombay Gin\, Jellyfish Review\, Passages North\, Northwest Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. Her debut book\, Who Loves the Sun was released through Meekling Press. \n\n\n\nMika Yamamoto is a writer and teacher based in Oak Park\, IL. She has been published most recently in The Good River Review\, Thieving Magpie\, and Vagabond City. She teaches at both Oak Park River Forest High School and The School at the Art Institute of Chicago. \n\n\n\nSamara Huggins is a poet\, performer\, artist and alchemist who explores how text interacts and reacts with the body. She embeds language into hidden or undisclosed parts of handmade quilts\, tapestries\, and garments. Alongside women in her family\, she weaves\, knits\, embroiders\, dyes\, and stitches stories of ancestry\, ecology\, grief and healing. \n\n\n\nSonnenzimmer a collaboration between artists Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi\, approaches graphic arts with an interdisciplinary mindset\, aiming to create new understandings that transcend specific disciplines. Their work encompasses image-making\, sculpture\, writing\, publishing\, exhibitions\, design\, music\, improvisation\, and performance\, exploring the physical and mental effects of visualization. They often discuss the concept of Graphic Arts Future\, which refers to the fusion of all human-induced media beyond conventional reception and intention. Through their experimental practice\, they aim to evoke metaphysical curiosity and encourage formats that engage with this concept. They believe that by embracing the Graphic Impulse\, we can collectively reconsider our approach to mark-making and signage\, ultimately benefiting society as a whole.Sonnenzimmer.com
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/who-loves-the-sun-chicago-book-launch-and-celebration/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of AAPI Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join the Guild Complex\, RHINO Poetry\, Kundiman\, and Luya Poetry for a celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander month with an evening of poetry readings from AAPI poets.  \n\n\n\n***We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase from the authors.*** \n\n\n\nRHINO Poetry Readers \n\n\n\nIgnatius Valentine Aloysius earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University\, where he teaches writing and experimentation. He is the author of the literary novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books)\, and his prose and poetry have appeared in or are forthcoming in Allium\, a Journal of Poetry & Prose\, Cold Mountain Review\, Another Chicago Magazine\, Porter Gulch Review\, Trampset\, Thanatos Review\, Roi Fainéant Press\, and Portable Gray (U of Chicago Press)\, among others. A poetry collection he co-authored with David Allen Sullivan\, poet laureate of Santa Cruz\, CA\, is forthcoming on Hummingbird Poetry Press. Ignatius curates and hosts the popular reading series Sunday Salon Chicago\, and he is a Co-Chair of the Curatorial Board at Ragdale Foundation\, where he is also a member of its Board of Trustees. Ignatius is currently shopping a lyrical novel and also his second poetry collection. Visit https://linktr.ee/ignatius.valentine.aloysius \n\n\n\nNoh Anothai’s translations range from classical Siamese poets to contemporary Thai authors\, including several who have received or been nominated for the Southeast Asian Writers (SEAWrite) Award. His work has been featured in Asymptote\, World Literature Today\, and Two Lines\, and he has served as a judge for the Lucien Stryk Prize for Asian Literature in Translation. Anothai was a Helen Degen Cohen Summer Reading Fellow with RHINO Poetry\, and later also served as an Associate Editor. Currently\, he is a co-editor for the Best Literary Translations anthology\, whose first edition featured guest editor Jane Hirshfield. \n\n\n\nKundiman Readers \n\n\n\nJess Yuan is a poet\, educator\, and architect. She is the author of Slow Render (2024)\, winner of the Airlie Prize\, and Threshold Amnesia (2020)\, winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, and her poems appear in Best New Poets\, Tupelo Quarterly Review\, jubilat\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Pleiades\, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. \n\n\n\nMeg Kim is a poet from Southern Oregon currently living in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter\, Sundog Lit\, and Gulf Coast\, among others\, and her debut chapbook\, INVISIBLE CARTOGRAPHIES\, is forthcoming summer 2024 with New Delta Review. \n\n\n\nLUYA Poetry Readers \n\n\n\nChris Aldana (she/they) is the author of The Water We Swim In (Sampaguita Press\, 2023). They are a queer\, Filipinx artist\, educator\, and community organizer based in Chicago. She is the founder and creative director of Luya\, a poetry organization that centers the voices of people of color. \n\n\n\nCzaerra Galicinao Ucol (they/she) is a queer Filipino writer from Chicago. A 2020 graduate of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program at New York University\, their work has appeared in Marías at Sampaguitas\, beestung\, and Walang Hiya. They are a Best New Poets 2021 and Best of the Net 2021 nominee. They are also the Programs and Communications Director of Luya\, a local grassroots poetry organization centering people of color\, which was nominated for Best Poetry Organization in Chicago Reader’s Best of 2021 Awards. In their free time\, they like cooking new recipes\, practicing Filipino Martial Arts\, and listening to Lake Michigan’s waves crashing. Their debut chapbook\, PISCES URGES\, was released in Summer 2023. \n\n\n\nDipika Mukherjee is the author of the novels Shambala Junction and Ode to Broken Things\, and the story collection\, Rules of Desire. Her work is included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and appears in World Literature Today\, Asia Literary Review\, Del Sol Review\, and Chicago Quarterly Review\, Newsweek\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Hemispheres\, Orion\, Scroll\, The Edge and more. Her third poetry collection\, Dialect of Distant Harbors\, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press in October 2022 and a collection of travel essays\, Writers Postcards\, has been accepted for publication by Penguin Random House (SEA) for 2023. She teaches at StoryStudio Chicago and the Graham School at University of Chicago. She holds a PhD in English (Sociolinguistics) from Texas A&M University.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/a-celebration-of-aapi-writers/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:American Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:At the American Writers Festival\, there’s more than just book talk. Get ready for fun\, community-driven activities for visitors of all ages. There’s so much to explore\, from book signings to arts & crafts to special photo ops and more! \n\n\n\nThe American Writers Festival\, co-presented by the American Writers Museum and Chicago Public Library\, is an entirely free\, one-day literary event showcasing the breadth and depth of American writing in all genres and styles. The Festival takes place on May 19\, 2024 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm across five stages at the Harold Washington Library Center in downtown Chicago (400 S. State St.).
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/american-writers-festival/
LOCATION:Harold Washington Library\, 400 S. State St.\, Chicago
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:What Came After: An Evening of Poetry with Christopher Stewart and John McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Stewart’s latest book\, What Came After is a poetic walk through grief\, memory\, and mental illness from a child perspective to adult understanding. It peers at life through the stain of poverty in the Midwest. In discussion with the author is John McCarthy\, whose 2019 book\, Scared Violent like Horses\, offers a complementary perspective on childhood masculinity and coping with loss. Each author’s poetry crafting a different image\, presenting a deeply moving but bitter contrast to the Rockwell image\, we think we know.These books complement one another so well. Each author will read from their perspective books and share in a discussion moderated in part by Guild Complex\, Executive Director\, Andrea Change. \n\n\n\n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \n\n\n\nChristopher Stewart is co-author (with Quraysh Ali Lansana) of The Walmart Republic (Mongrel Empire Press) and has been recently published in Bryant Literary Review\, Oakwood\, The Perch\, Connecticut River Review\, and others. His new book\, What Came After (The Calliope Group) is out now and the focus of this event. His work frequently addresses themes around mental illness and recovery. He was a 2022 finalist for Steve Kowit Poetry Prize and a 2023 finalist for the Iowa Review Award. \n\n\n\nJohn McCarthy is the author of Scared Violent Like Horses (Milkweed Editions\, 2019)\, which was selected by Victoria Chang as the winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. He is also the author of one previous poetry collection\, Ghost County (Midwestern Gothic Press\, 2016)\, which was named a Best Poetry Book of 2016 by The Chicago Review of Books. John’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals\, including 32 Poems\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Best New Poets\, Cincinnati Review\, Copper Nickel\, Gettysburg Review\, Ninth Letter\, North American Review\, Pleiades\, Quarterly West\, and TriQuarterly. He currently lives in Evanston\, Illinois and is the Managing Editor of RHINO Poetry. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the Guild Complex in collaboration with Haymarket Books. 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/what-came-after-an-evening-of-poetry-with-christopher-stewart-and-john-mccarthy/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240511T210000
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SUMMARY:Poets (still) for Palestine: A Night of Art & Community with Exhibit B
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the continued resilience of the Palestinian people and the rise of campus protests\, Exhibit B and the Guild Literary Complex are hosting another fundraiser for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. We were absolutely overwhelmed by the support for this event in early December and feel the continued need to do something tangible with this shared grief.   \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the incredible Sahar Mustafa has once again agreed to join us as host\, reader\, and co-curator for this special night!  Pilsen Community Books will be onsite selling books and donating the proceeds. Refreshments will also be available for sale\, the proceeds also benefitting PCRF.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets are $20 online and at the door. \n\n\n\nWe’ll also accept proof of a $20 donation to: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/pcrf1/campaign.jsp?campaign=14&fundraiser=592330 \n\n\n\nNo person will be turned away for not being able to donate. If you’d like to attend\, but are unable to donate\, please email Exhibit B at exhibitb312@gmail.com
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poets-still-for-palestine-a-night-of-art-community-with-exhibit-b/
LOCATION:Co-Prosperity\, 3219 S Morgan St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608
CATEGORIES:Exhibit B
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240504T230000
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SUMMARY:Slam Diáspora @ Feria del Libro
DESCRIPTION:¡EN PERSONA! @ The Pub\, Ida Noyes Hall (1212 E. 59th Street) \n\n\n\n9pm Puertas AbrenComienza 9:30pm \n\n\n\nMCs: Crystal Vance y Luis Tubens \n\n\n\nRequisitos:Preparar 2 poemas de 3 minutos cada unoPoemas deben ser 75% en Español \n\n\n\nMás información sobre Feria del Libro
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-feria/
LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall | University of Chicago\, 1212 E. 59th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Slam Diáspora
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240504T230000
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SUMMARY:Feria del Libro
DESCRIPTION:El español está vivito y coleando en Estados Unidos; incluso\, el país ha escalado a la cuarta posición con mayor número de hispanohablantes en el mundo. Se habla ampliamente en el ámbito público y privado\, y no solamente por la comunidad latina. Con más de 42 millones de hablantes\, el español es el segundo idioma más hablado en Estados Unidos. Se escucha en los pasillos de las instituciones de educación superior\, mientras los poetas lo respiran\, y tanto los troqueros como las babysitters y los ruferos sueñan en español. Para muchos\, el español es una mina de oro. Aproximadamente 66.5 millones de latinos tienen un poder adquisitivo de aproximadamente de 2.5 mil billones de dólares en 2023\, pero más allá de las cifras gargantuescas\, los invitamos a reflexionar sobre el español y la literatura propia de Estados Unidos que está emergiendo de costa a costa. La Feria de Libro de Chicago se realizará del 2 al 4 de mayo de 2024 en el campus de la Universidad de Chicago en colaboración entre El BeiSmAn y la organización Hispanic and Luzo-Brazilian Student Committee.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/feria-del-librio-2024/
LOCATION:Illinois
CATEGORIES:Partner Event
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SUMMARY:Elsewhere: An Elegy Book Release Event with Faisal Mohyuddin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for poetry and stories of the collective breath held by a grieving world and to celebrate Elsewhere: An Elegy with author Faisal Mohyuddin.  \n\n\n\n“Faisal Mohyuddin’s Elsewhere: An Elegy is a memory palace of rooms filled with riversongs and baited fishhooks\, where longing transforms into birds. This is a moving collection which touches on faith\, grief\, and fatherhood. It is challenging to know how to talk to our children about ‘their impossible wish for deathless tomorrows\,’ but reading Mohyuddin’s poetry encourages us to embrace this world of secrets for a moment and just listen.” — Greg Santos\, author of Ghost Face \n\n\n\nIn addition\, this event will also feature Osama Alomar\, CM Burroughs\, Matthew Kelsey\, and works by artist\,Linda Abdullah. \n\n\n\n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBIOS:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFaisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page\, 2024)\, The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear\, 2018)\, and The Riddle of Longing (Backbone\, 2017). The recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award from the Illinois State Library\, he teaches English at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago and creative writing at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies. He is also a visual artist and serves as a Master Practitioner with the global not-for-profit Narrative 4. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinda Abdullah is an interdisciplinary artist\, designer\, poet\, and daughter of Historic Palestine. Linda majored in Visual Communications at the American University of Sharjah (UAE) and received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design from OCAD University in Canada. Her critical graphic design practice examines social\, cultural\, and political identity through the lens of diaspora\, displacement\, and intellectual exile. Linda exhibits her work regularly and recently had a visual poem about Gaza featured in the Chicago Reader; she currently resides in Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn in Damascus\, Syria\, Osama Alomar is one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today\, and a prominent practitioner of the Arabical-qisa al-qasira jiddan\, the “very short story.” He is the author of Fullblood Arabian in English\, and three collections of short stories and a volume of poetry in Arabic. Alomar’s first full-length collection of stories\, The Teeth of the Comb\, was published by New Directions in April 2017. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker (online)\, Noon\, Conjunctions\, The Coffin Factory\, Electric Literature\, and The Literary Review. Currently\, Alomar is working on a new novel about the Syrian War tentatively called The Womb\, as well as another project called The Book of Meditations . He was recently writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh\, and now lives in Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCM Burroughs is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago and author of The Vital System and Master Suffering\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award\, Lambda Book Award\, and the LA Times Book Award. Burroughs’ poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry\, Ploughshares\, Cave Canem’s Gathering Ground\, and Best American Experimental Writing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOriginally from Glens Falls\, New York\, Matthew Kelsey is a poet and actor based in Chicago. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Copper Nickel\, Colorado Review\, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, a teaching fellowship from the Kenyon Review Young Writers Program\, and an Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Fellowship. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by The Guild Complex and Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available\, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/elsewhere-an-elegy-book-release-event-with-faisal-mohyuddin/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:Spirits\, Spirituality\, & Craft | Reading & Panel
DESCRIPTION:As writers\, celebrating culture through our work is as easy as sitting across the table from grandma. That ancestral influence is undeniable\, but for some it is more intentional. It can be the circulatory process that streams through the work that is produced. Whether baptized in holy water or animal sacrifice – Christianity\, Voodun\, Santeria or Sanctified\, these rituals imprint themselves in the work of the writer. The Spirits\, Spirituality & Craft reading and panel discussion will bring together three writers whose work demonstrates how ancestral influence and spiritual practice manifests itself in their writing craft. We will discuss the intention behind this effort. Is it a memory purge? Or a necessary part of their work? How do they bring in or welcome these influences into their writing space? \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nBios\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer\, spoken word artist\, and cultural strategist. A prolific creative and previously incarcerated artist\, Hicks’ is known for their dynamic storytelling methods and compelling narrative arcs. Using poetry\, prose\, music\, video\, and live performances—they explore the evolution of personal and national identity\, the cyclical nature of grief\, the spiritual applications of quantum physics\, decolonized eroticism/sensuality\, and manifesting personal liberation. Hicks is an Artivist: someone who integrates transformative justice theory into their creative practice\, using much of their work to advocate for the lives of marginalized people who make up our global majority. Their personal account of their time in pretrial incarceration in Hays County is featured in the ITVS Independent Lens 2019 documentary 45 Days in a Texas Jail\, and the Brave New Films 2021 documentary narrated by Mahershala Ali Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem. Based in Chicago\, IL\, Hicks is the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch (Acre Books\, 2019). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTINA JENKINS BELL is a fiction writer\, playwright\, freelance journalist\, literary activist\, and academic. Bell is a three-time recipient of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events grant\, an Illinois Arts Council grant and two fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation. She is a co-founder of FLOW (For the Love of Writing) and has collaborated with numerous writing organizations\, authors\, and bookstores to offer literary programming on Chicago’s south side. She has collaborated with Janice Tuck Lively and Sandra Jackson-Opoku to produce “A Conversation with Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks\,” a fictitious account of the literary icons discussing race and women’s issues during a chance meeting in heaven. Her prose has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including Hypertext Journal\, ZYZZYVA Literary Magazine\, and Us Against Alzheimer’s. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKELI STEWART is a writer and educator whose writing has appeared in Quiddity\, Meridians\, Warpland\, amongst other notable journals and publications. Keli was recently selected as a 2021-2022 School of the Art Institute Nichols Tower Artist-in-Residence\, where she will facilitate community storytelling and creative writing workshops. She has received artist fellowships from Hedgebrook\, where she was awarded the 2010 Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Award\, and the Augusta Savage Gallery Arts International Residency Program. An alum of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and Callaloo Summer Writing Workshops\, Keli’s writing was selected first place in the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award from the Illinois Center of the Book\, chosen by Illinois poet laureate Kevin Stein.  A graduate of Providence St. Mel Highschool\, she received her BA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College in 2002\, her MFA in Poetry from Chicago State University\, and pursued doctoral work in Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst where she studied with notable artists\, activists\, and scholars.  Keli served as a Leadership Lab Fellow with the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation. She is also the founder of Front Porch Arts Center\, selected as part of the Alliance of Artists Communities Emerging Program Institute. Her poetry collection\, Small Altars was published with Bronzeville Books in 2021.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nANDREA CHANGE (she/her) is a hometown girl\, born and raised in Chicago. A graduate of Northwestern University with a Master’s degree from Roosevelt\, she has been an active member of Chicago’s literary community for than 20 years. Her work has been published in the past in various journals and poetry anthologies from Tia Chucha Press\, Powerlines and Stray Bullets. Her poetry was also included in the Steppenwolf Theatre production\, Words on Fire.  She is currently working on a book of memoir poetry and prose inspired by her experiences growing up on the city’s west side. Andrea is the executive director for the Guild Literary Complex and currently lives in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood with her two dogs Sasha and Missy.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/spirits-spirituality-craft-reading-panel/
LOCATION:Green Line Performing Arts Center\, 329 E. Garfield Boulevard\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP | Walking the Middle Path: Using Hoodoo to Tell Your Story
DESCRIPTION:If your goal is to get over that writer’s block and finally tell your story–hoodoo can help! Participants will walk away with a basic understanding of how to read tarot\, how to pull information from oracles\, astrology\, and herbs in relation to their creative writing project\, and how to respectfully engage hoodoo practices when running into narrative blocks in their work. \n\n\n\nParticipants will need to bring their own notebook and writing utensil to this workshop. \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nBIO \n\n\n\nFAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer\, spoken word artist\, and cultural strategist. A prolific creative and previously incarcerated artist\, Hicks’ is known for their dynamic storytelling methods and compelling narrative arcs. Using poetry\, prose\, music\, video\, and live performances—they explore the evolution of personal and national identity\, the cyclical nature of grief\, the spiritual applications of quantum physics\, decolonized eroticism/sensuality\, and manifesting personal liberation. Hicks is an Artivist: someone who integrates transformative justice theory into their creative practice\, using much of their work to advocate for the lives of marginalized people who make up our global majority. Their personal account of their time in pretrial incarceration in Hays County is featured in the ITVS Independent Lens 2019 documentary 45 Days in a Texas Jail\, and the Brave New Films 2021 documentary narrated by Mahershala Ali Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem. \n\n\n\nBased in Chicago\, IL\, Hicks is the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch(Acre Books\, 2019)\, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry\, the 2019 Julie Suk Award\, and the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize. They are currently working on their second collection\, A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books\, 2024) and a debut memoir about their carceral experience A Body of Wild Light(Haymarket Books\, 2025). Both books are supported in part by grants\, fellowships\, residencies\, and awards from the Art for Justice\, Black Mountain Institute\, Tin House\, and The Right of Return USA. The former Editor-in-Chief of Black Femme Collective and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, Hicks is a voting member of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs and its Songwriters and Composers Committee for the Texas Chapter. Hicks is also the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Tony-Award winning Broadway Advocacy Coalition\, Civil Rights Corps\, Lambda Literary\, and Texas After Violence Project. Their poetry\, essays\, and digital art have been featured in American Poetry Review\, Ecotone\, Kenyon Review\, Longreads\, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day\, Poetry Magazine\, Slate\, Split This Rock\, Texas Observer\, The Slowdown Podcast\, and Yale Review\, amongst others.  \n\n\n\nBorn in Gardena\, California\, they were raised in Central Texas where they received their MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College’s Low Residency Program and founded their creative services LLC\, Infinite. Creative. Lit.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/workshop-walking-the-middle-path-using-hoodoo-to-tell-your-story/
LOCATION:Green Line Performing Arts Center\, 329 E. Garfield Boulevard\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Event @ Blanc Gallery
DESCRIPTION:For National Poetry Month\, the Guild Complex offers a special program featuring the newly minted Indiana State poet Laureate Curtis Crisler\, alongside the current Illinois Poet Laureate and the most prolific Miss Angela Jackson.   \n\n\n\nThe program will also feature special performances from the Write It Down! Collective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBIOS:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCurtis L. Crisler was born and raised in Gary\, Indiana. Crisler\, an award-winning poet/author\, has a new book called Doing Drive-bys on How to Love in the Midwest. He has six poetry books\, two YA books\, and five poetry chapbooks. He’s been published in a variety of magazines\, journals\, and anthologies. He’s co-editor of poetry for the museum of americana. He created the Indiana Chitlin Circuit and the poetry form called the sonastic. He’s the Indiana Poet Laureate and Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). He can be contacted at www.poetcrisler.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngela Jackson is a Chicago poet\, playwright\, and novelist. She has received numerous honors for both fiction and poetry\, including the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, the Pushcart Prize\, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Her poetry collection All These Roads Be Luminous (1998) was nominated for the National Book Award\, and her debut novel\, Where I Must Go (2009)\, won the American Book Award. In addition to Comfort Stew\, Jackson has written several other plays: Witness! (1978)\, Shango Diaspora: An African-American Myth of Womanhood and Love (1980)\, and Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/national-poetry-month-event-blanc-gallery/
LOCATION:Blanc Gallery\, 4445 South King Drive\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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