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  • Poetry Performance Incubator: “Tour Guides”

    Beverly Arts Center 2407 West 111th Street

      Beverly 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”,...

    $13 – $16

  • Palabra Pura: “Telling Our Stories Through the Body”

    La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor

    Join 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...

    FREE

  • 2013 Benefit: “Talkin’ Blues: a Tribute to Sterling Plumpp”

    Rosa’s Blues Lounge 3420 W. Armitage

    You 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...

  • Palabra Pura: “Noche de Novelas / Night of Novels”

    La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor

    Join 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...

    FREE

  • 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...

    FREE

  • Printer’s Row Lit Fest

    Printers Row Between Dearborn and Polk , Chicago

    Join 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...

  • Palabra Pura: “Blood, Family, and Tears / Sangre, Familia y Lágrimas”

    La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor

    Our 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...

    FREE

  • 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...

  • Palabra Pura: “The Diaspora Daughters Speak”

    La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor

    Afro-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...

    FREE

  • Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards

    Chopin Theater 1543 W Division

    Guild 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...

  • Poetry Performance Incubator Auditions

    Free Street Theatre 1419 W. Blackhawk St, Chicago, IL, United States

    The 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...

  • Applied Words: Broken Windows

    Polish Triangle Chicago

    If 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...

    FREE

  • Palabra Pura: Inspiration

    La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor

    Poets 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...

    FREE

  • Poetry: Work Is Love Made Visible

    Jak's Tap 901 W. Jackson, Chicago, IL, United States

    Work 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...

    Free

  • Poetry: What’s Class Got To Do With It??!!

    Lunt Lake Co-op Apartments (Community Room) 1138 W Lunt, Chicago, IL, United States

    A 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....

    Free

  • 2013 Prose Awards

    Chopin Theater 1543 W Division

    Every 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...

    $5 – $7

  • Palabra Pura: Letras Latinas

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

    We 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...

    FREE

  • Poetry Performance Incubator: Like Bread

    Free Street Theater 1419 W Blackhawk St

    Join 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...

  • Poetry Performance Incubator: Like Bread

    Free Street Theater 1419 W Blackhawk St

    Join 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...

  • TONIC: a soulful celebration

    Vincent Restaurant 1475 W Balmoral , Chicago

    You 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....

    $25 – $50

  • Palabra Pura: El Amor

    La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor

    Our 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...

    FREE

  • Chicago Book Expo

    St. Augustine College 1345 W. Argyle

    The 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,...

    FREE

  • An evening with M. Evelina Galang (wsg Angela Narciso Torres)

    Women & Children First bookstore 5233 N. Clark Street, Chicago

    Angel 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...

    Free

  • PALABRA PURA: “ONE POET / ONE POEM”

    La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, Chicago

    The Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the ninth season of PALABRA PURA with “One Poet / One Poem”. 2014 guest curators reveal their plans and past readers...

    Free

  • Applied Words: Notes from the Mainframe

    FreeGeek Chicago 3411 W Diversey Ave, Chicago

    In the 21st century, we live inside technology like never before. For Applied Words “Notes from the Mainframe,” the Guild Literary Complex invites writers employed in technology to read their...

    Free

  • Palabra Pura: Greater Than The Sum Of Parts

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

    "As Latin@s born and bred in the U.S., our sense of identity, culture, mother tongue and family are often complicated and contradictory. We are not a uniform group and sometimes...

    Free