Curated by Yolanda Nieves with featured poets Lisa Alvarado & Kristiana Rae Colón Curator Dr. Yolanda Nieves, Assistant Professor, English, Wilbur Wright College Chicago, is creative director of The Vida Bella Ensemble, is part of Teatro Luna’s PlayLab series and her La Matadora/Steel Flags will be produced by Chicago’s Landmark Project Fall 2011. She won the...
The Guild Literary Complex of Chicago continues its 2012 season with its returning series, Applied Words, which explores creative writing’s intersection with an artistic discipline (e.g. music or visual art) or a non-arts field (e.g. social justice or health). This Applied Words event will explore creative writing as an instrument of social activism - how...
In our new Teaching Artist Showcase series, creative writers who also happen to be teachers will share creative work that was inspired by, developed with or otherwise related to their teaching work. The series will define "teaching artist" broadly - from university faculty, to in-school elementary and high school writing teachers or after-school program instructors,...
April 13th is the official deadline to r.s.v.p. for this year's annual Benefit "Illuminate" - the art and craft of graphic novels, with Nicole Hollander, Audrey Niffenegger, C. Spike Trotman and Chris Ware. A very limited number of tickets will be available for sale at the door - click here for more details...
Curated by Gregorio Gómez and featuring Nora Leon and Martin Rubio Jr. Curator Gregorio Gomez is the MC of Chicago's most infamous and longest running underground poetry venue at "WEEDS". Gregorio who emigrated from Veracruz, Mexico has been a major influence in the development of the spoken word and many venues of Chicago's poetry...
This year’s theme is the art and craft of graphic novels and features cocktails, appetizers and a panel discussion with Nicole Hollander, Audrey Niffenegger, C. Spike Trotman and Chris Ware! Learn more here.
Curated by Beatriz Badikian Gartler and featuring Fernando Olszanski and Bernardo Navia. Curator Beatriz Badikian-Gartler was born and reared in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has lived in the Chicago area for over thirty-five years. Badikian-Gartler holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches at various institutions of higher learning....
Get a sneak peak at the creative process behind the Poetry Performance Incubator’s new work-in-progress, Unnatural Spaces. The Incubator artists will do some of the types of writing and performance exercises they’ve been using for the past 5 months as they develop the new show set to premiere in October. They’ll even share some of...
Join us for an evening of poetry, music and discussion of the legendary poet/musician/activist. Presented by the Guild's "Applied Words" series, with support from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture - University of Chicago, and the Friends of...
The Guild Literary Complex closes out its 19th Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award competition with its final event: an American Idol-style evening of poetry performance and audience voting. The semifinalists – named after a combination of traditional judging and a public facebook vote – will perform in a series of rounds followed by audience votes....
Exploring Afro-Latino poetry - curated by Marta Collazo and featuring Jeanette. Curator Marta Collazo is a Puerto Rican woman born and raised in Lorain, Ohio. She has lived in the Chicago area for the last fourty years. Collazo studied Communications and Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a social activist, a...
This evening will showcase two poets with a passion for cross-cultural experiences – poetry that travels. Curator Francisco Aragón is Director of Letras Latinas, the national literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, and has been a member of the Institute since 2003. He has published, edited or contributed to...
This will be the final sneak peek at the creative process behind the Poetry Performance Incubator’s new work-in-progress, Unnatural Spaces, before it premieres in October. The Incubator artists will do some of the types of writing and performance exercises they’ve been using for the past 9 months to develop the new show. They’ll even share...
Three Poets and a master percussionist demonstrate the continuing contributions of Puerto Ricans to Chicago literature. This evening is curated by Eduardo Arocho and features poet Judy Diaz, poet/musician David Hernandez, and percussionist and musician Peter Vale. Curator Eduardo Arocho has been writing and performing poetry since 1992. He has been featured in many venues...
The Guild's annual contest awards two $250 prizes, one for short fiction and one for short non-fiction. 2012 judges are Amina Gautier (fiction) and David Lazar (non-fiction). The submission deadline to enter this year's contest (for email OR snail mail arrival) is 5pm, September 28th, 2012. To complete your entry, CLICK HERE for judge biographies...
Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers, this piece tackles the humor, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, October 5th - 28th at 7pm....
As part of Chicago Artists Month, the Guild and Voice of the City will host a workshop featuring the Set Designer and Costume Designer for the Poetry Performance Incubator show "Unnatural Spaces" (playing Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October). Because the show's theme is the environmental complexities of urban living, as part of the creative...
Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers, this piece tackles the humor, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, October 5th - 28th at 7pm....
Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers, this piece tackles the humor, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, October 5th - 28th at 7pm....
Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers, this piece tackles the humor, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, October 5th - 28th at 7pm....
Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers, this piece tackles the humor, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, October 5th - 28th at 7pm....
The Guild Literary Complex presents a sampling of teaching artists who educate students in various, diverse Chicago neighborhoods with its Teaching Artist Showcase series in collaboration with Woman Made Gallery, now celebrating its 20th Anniversary with its 20 Neighborhoods project. This is the second event in our series, and it will featurewriters who teach in middle- and high-schools, hospitals, and other community...
Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers, this piece tackles the humor, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, October 5th - 28th at 7pm....
The Guild Literary Complex continues its seventh year of its Palabra Pura bilingual poetry series with “Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets” on October 17, 2012. The event is curated by Dr. Jochy Herrera and features poets from contratiempo magazine. The event will include poetry in Spanish, English and a combination of both. Featured readers will include Jorge Montiel, Silvia Goldman, and...
Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers, this piece tackles the humor, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, October 5th - 28th at 7pm....
As part of Chicago Artists Month, the Guild and Voice of the City will host a workshop featuring the Set Designer and Costume Designer for the Poetry Performance Incubator show "Unnatural Spaces" (playing Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October). Because the show's theme is the environmental complexities of urban living, as part of the creative...
Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers, this piece tackles the humor, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, October 5th - 28th at 7pm....
Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers, this piece tackles the humor, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, October 5th - 28th at 7pm....
The Guild Literary Complex's Prose Awards (short fiction and non-fiction) help to surface emerging and mid-career prose writers and bring them to the public's attention through an open call for submissions and judged competition. Past judges have included luminaries such as Stuart Dybek, Alex Kotlowitz, Antonya Nelson, and Sam Weller. On October 24, we will...
Congratulations to following finalists of the 2012 Prose Awards (fiction and non-fiction)! Fiction Claire Bartlett Jason Lee Brown Sahar Mustafah Non-Fiction Suzanne Scanlon Ingrida Martinkus Jane Hertenstein This year's finalists were chosen by judges Amina Gautier and David Lazar. Please join us as we reveal the winners on October 24, 7:30...