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  • PALABRA PURA: MEMORY AND GHOSTS

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

        Curated by Cynthia Pelayo October 21 @ 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM $5 | La Bruquena Restaurant, 2726 W. Division in Humboldt Park This month’s curator, Cynthia Pelayo, provides...

    $5

  • Auction: Reginald Gibbons’ Library of First Edition Books

    SAVE THE DATE: Reginald Gibbons' Library of First Editions Book Auction Available Starting November 4th Reginald Gibbons is a poet, fiction writer, translator, educator, critic, the former editor of  TriQuarterly magazine and National...

  • Annual Prose Awards

    Chopin Theater 1543 W Division

    Annual Prose Awards Event November 12, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m., Chopin Theater   Every fall, the Guild Literary Complex acknowledges emerging and established prose writers via a judged competition and...

    $8

  • PALABRA PURA: NOSSA AMÉRICA

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

    PALABRA PURA: NOSSA AMÉRICA NOVEMBER 18 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | $5 La Bruquena Restaurant, 2726 W. Division in Humboldt Park   The last Palabra Pura for 2015...

    $5

  • Palabra Pura 2016 Season Kick Off ~ One Poet / One Poem Returns

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

      The Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the 11th season of PALABRA PURA returning with “One Poet / One Poem”.  Come join in the fun 11 years in...

  • Palabra Pura March 16, 2016

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

    Palabra Pura March 16, 2016 7:30 - 9:00 pm “Turnt in Relevant Opacity” Curated by Ricardo Gamboa Current events ranging from cover-ups of police shootings and growing social inequalities further...

  • RUTHERFORD’S TRAVELS with Dr. Charles Johnson

    Chicago Dramatists 773 N. Aberdeen, Chicago, United States

    Pegasus Theatre has a special deal this weekend just for Guild Literary Complex fans: This weekend, Pegasus Theatre presents sneak peak readings of RUTHERFORD’S TRAVELS, a spellbinding tale based on...

    Variable

  • Return Us to Nakedness, A Celebration of Rane Arroyo

    Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center 4048 West Armitage, Chicago, IL, United States

    RANE Flyer, Jpeg Guild Literary Complex, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, After Hours Press, and the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center invite you to join us for an evening celebrating...

  • RAP 101

    Iridium Clothing CO 1330 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Welcome to Chicago's newest DIY underground hip-hop event. On the last Thursday of the month (August and December excluded) the Guild Literary Complex hosts an a cappella hip-hop series with...

    $10

  • BrooksDay Preview at the MCA, Chicago

    Museum of Contemporary Art 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    The 4th Annual BrooksDay is right around the corner, and to pique your interest the Guild Literary Complex in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a preview...

  • Palabra Pura, May 18, 2016

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

    Palabra Pura with Miguel López Lemus of Lobo Estepario Press presents: Palabra Pura as part of the Guild Literary Complex Una noche bohemia. A bohemian night. Poetry, song, music, storytelling...

  • 4th Annual BrooksDay, June 7 2016

    Chicago Cultural Center 78 East Washington Street, Chicago, United States

    Welcome to the 4th Annual BrooksDay, a day long celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks Tuesday, June 7, 2016, Time: 10:00 am until 6:00 pm Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St.,...

  • Where Margins Meet ~ the Guild’s Annual Benefit

    Filament Theatre 4041 N. MILWAUKEE AVE, Chicago , IL, United States

    The GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX is set to party with you on June 22nd 6:00 - 9:00 PM at Filament theatre. Come celebrate nearly 30 years of the Guild's legacy in...

    $15 – $180

  • One Poet/One Poem

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

    The Guild’s annual One Poet/One Poem event starts the year off by looking back.  Past Palabra Pura performers are invited to return and share a single poem or other 3-minute piece, painting...

  • Creative Freedom: Writing In and Out of Prison

    Green Line Performing Arts Center 329 E. Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL, United States

    A reading and panel featuring formerly incarcerated writers, and writers who teach in prisons, sharing their work and their perspectives on writing in prison, writing outside of prison, and writing...

  • Of Poetry and Protest

    Stony Island Arts Bank 6760 S. Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

    3A panel presented by The Guild Literary Complex + Rebuild Foundation This afternoon with Angela Jackson, Haki Madhubuti, and Eugene Redmond, some of the most important Chicago-area poets working at the intersection of...

  • Performing Identities On (& Off) the Page: Queer Femme Artists of Color

    Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United States

    Building on a conversation begun with last Fall’s Applied Words: Performing Queerness On (& Off) the Page, this reading and performance panel brings together three Chicago-based queer femme artists of color working...

  • BrooksDay 2019

    Chicago State University, Gwendolyn Brooks Library 9501 S. King Drive, Chicago, IL, United States

    BrooksDay is the Guild Literary Complex’s annual celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks, held every year on June 7th, the anniversary of her birth.  Since 2013, BrooksDay has been a marquee event in...

  • The Guild’s 30th Anniversary Party

    Chopin Theater 1543 W Division

    The Guild hosted an evening celebrating the Guild’s first 30 years, and looking forward to the next 30. Important voices from the Guild’s past introduced the Guild’s 30 Writers to...

  • Of Poetry and Protest Exhibit Opening

    Stony Island Arts Bank 6760 S. Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

    Presented by The Guild Literary Complex + Rebuild Foundation Continuing the collaboration between The Guild Complex and Rebuild Foundation built on the 2016 anthology of African American political art and poetry, Of Poetry and Protest:...

  • Narraciones en Tiempos Distintos / Narrations in Different Times

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

    En estos tiempos difíciles y en mérito a la evolucion de la lengua, contamos las historias que nuestros zapatos caminan, desde 4 perspectivas diferentes. Democracia, intertextualidad, el muro, THC, LGBTTQQIAAP,...

  • 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...

  • 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