BROOKSDAY
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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The Chicago Cultural Center 78 E Washington St.
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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 observations. Bring your poetry on the theme to share in the open mic that starts the event! About the authors: Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a...
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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. Featured readers include poet and scholar Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and poet Adam Gottlieb. An open mic begins the program, so bring your own poetry related...
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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 Complex presents Chicago authors examining human-scale relationships with the built environment, the history of Homan Square, and what comes next. This reading is part of...
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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 on October 23, 7:30 pm, at the Chopin Theater, located at 1543 W. Division Street, as we celebrate the authors at a special reading and...
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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 Prize. Judge Orlando Ricardo Menes directs the creative writing program at the University of Notre Dame. His third full-length collection, Fetish, won the 2012 Prairie...
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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 struggles, the way that writing can transform a life, and how challenging (but joyful) it can be to claim oneself “a writer.” We are...
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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 struggles, the way that writing can transform a life, and how challenging (but joyful) it can be to claim oneself “a writer.” We are so...
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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. We plan to celebrate with a night of music, libations, and the best company: YOU. It will be a TONIC, something good for the soul,...
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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 on love. Twenty-seven (!) Palabra Pura poets contributed a new poem on the theme for this published collection, and many will be on hand to...
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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, plus free author readings, panel discussions, writing workshops, and bilingual/Spanish programs" available to the public for free! Visit our booth, and enjoy the opportunity to...
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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 Latina/o poets. Carmen Giménez-Smith is the author of four poetry collections—Milk and Filth, Goodbye, Flicker, The City She Was, and Odalisque in Pieces. Sheryl Luna received...
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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 Women & Children First on Wednesday, January 8th at 7:30 p.m. in an event co-presented by Guild Literary Complex and Coffee House Press. The novel...
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PALABRA PURA: “ONE POET / ONE POEM”
La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 W. Division, ChicagoThe 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 share a poem during this annual party celebrating poetry (and fiction) in more than one tongue. Contributing authors include: Rey Andújar | Beatriz Badikian | ...
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Applied Words: Notes from the Mainframe
FreeGeek Chicago 3411 W Diversey Ave, ChicagoIn 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 work and discuss the poetics of art and science. “Notes from the Mainframe” will include readings by Catherine Halley (Director of Digital Programs, Poetry Foundation),...
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Interdisciplinary Workshop: Dramaturgy of the Body with Rey Andújar
City Lit Books 2523 N Kedzie Blvd, ChicagoRey Andújar, photo by Ariana Drule For Rey Andújar movement, theatre, and writing are inextricably linked. Each facet of his art hinges on the others. In this workshop he will explain his process, discuss his influences, and present his muses. Writers, actors, and dancers alike will not want to miss this one-of-a-kind peek into this...
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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 don’t play well with others – even with our own gente. Yet on our life’s journey, aided by our writing, we find the integrity as...
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An evening with Mario Bellatin: book party for Flowers / The Illustrated Biography of Mishima
Chicago Urban Art Society 600 W. Cermak Rd. Unit 1B, Chicago7Vientos (7V), an independent publishing house located in Chicago, is releasing two novellas by Mario Bellatin, one of the greatest writers of contemporary Latin American literature. He has published over forty books and his work has been translated into fifteen different languages. The book now published by 7V is a hardcover “flip” edition housing Bellatin’s...
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Applied Words: It Gets Better
Schubas Tavern 3159 N Southport, Chicago, IL, United Statespictured left to right: Precious, Jill Howe, Tamale (curator/host), Greg Ledger, Lily Be "It Gets Better" is curated and hosted by the fabulous Tamale and features great comic voices responding to the themes of history, mythology, gender, and high school. This reading is co-sponsored by About Face Theatre and is presented in connection to their...
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Reading, Conversation, and Book Signing: Cristina García
Harold Washington Library 400 S. State St., ChicagoREADING, CONVERSATION, AND BOOK SIGNING: CRISTINA GARCIA, author of King of Cuba Tuesday, March 18, 6:00 p.m. Harold Washington Library Cindy Pritzker Auditorium 400 South State Street FREE As a part of Story Week 2014, the Guild has collaborated with Columbia College to bring you an evening with renowned author Cristina García . Cristina García is the...
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Panel: Translation Matters
Humboldt Park Field House 1440 N Humboldt Drive, ChicagoPANEL: TRANSLATION MATTERS Wednesday, March 19, 5:00 p.m. Humboldt Park Fieldhouse 1400 N. Sacramento (North of Division) FREE Produced in partnership with Story Week and presented in special collaboration with Chicago Park District. During this panel, celebrated authors and translators will discuss the crucial role literature plays in increasing global understanding, the need to teach literature in translation, and...
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Meet-and-Greet
PALABRA PURA: Meet & Greet Wednesday, March 19, 6:00 p.m. Humboldt Park Fieldhouse, 1400 N. Humboldt Dr. (North of Division) Meet the panelists from Translation Matters and talk to the authors reading during Noche de novelas / Night of Novels during this social hour. Light refreshments will be provided. Books by the authors will be...