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SUMMARY:Exhibit B Reading: Chad Morgan\, Crystal Vance Guerra\, Parker Young\, and Christie Valentin-Bati
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 25th\, as Exhibit B brings the show to Pilsen Community Books featuring performances from Chad Morgan\, Crystal Vance Guerra\, Parker Young\, and Christie Valentin-Bati.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/exhibit-b-reading-chad-morgan-crystal-vance-guerra-parker-young-and-christie-valentin-bati/
LOCATION:Pilsen Community Books\, 1102 W 18th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit B
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SUMMARY:TAKING ROOT: Poetry Event with the South Asia Institute
DESCRIPTION:In honor of AAPI Month\, the South Asia Institute and the Guild Literary Complex bring you TAKING ROOT. This arts event features an exhibition tour\, poetry\, music\, book signing\, and more… \n\n\n\nPoetry reading moderated by Faisal Mohyuddin\, with poets George Abraham\, Czaerra Galicinao Ucol\, Samina Hadi-Tabassum\, and Saba Keramati. Music by Maninder Singh.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDocumentation from the event:\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImages added 7/5/23
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/taking-root-poetry-event-with-the-south-asia-institute/
LOCATION:South Asia Institute\, 1925 South Michigan Avenue\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60616
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:Black Feminist Poetics: From the Dirt to the Delta
DESCRIPTION:This program explores the poetics inspired by From the Mississippi Delta. Saunte Harden-Tate\, Nikki Patin\, Mojdeh Stoakley and members of the Guild Complex will perform works written by Nina Simone\, Beah Richards\, Gwendolyn Brooks and other Black feminist poets and then perform their own pieces written as response\, resulting in a poetic conversation about and for Black women.  \n\n\n\nThis event is part of a series of community and post-performance events in support of Lifeline Theatre and Pegasus’ co-production of From the Mississippi Delta (April 27-June 18). \n\n\n\nEvent co-produced by Guild Literary Complex and Surviving the Mic.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/black-feminist-poetics-from-the-dirt-to-the-delta/
LOCATION:Pegasus at Chicago Dramatists\, 765 N. Aberdeen (May and Aberdeen)\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60642
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:Slam Diáspora @ Feria del Libro
DESCRIPTION:¡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  \n\n\n\nUbicado en El Pub\, un bar en el beisman de la Universidad de Chicago Ida Noyes Hall. Se puede registrar en línea o el mismo día en persona: http://tiny.cc/feriaslam \n\n\n\nRecuerden: 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. \n\n\n\nCreemos 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. \n\n\n\nSlam Diáspora es el primer slam de poesía en español de Chicago 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. \n\n\n\n¡Participantes y ganadores del año pasado pueden participar de nuevo! \n\n\n\nGracias a El Beisman\, Feria del Libro Chicago\, Guild Literary Complex\, Contratiempo y la Universidad de Chicago por apoyar este proyecto  \n\n\n\n******* \n\n\n\nOpen 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 is 2 poems  \n\n\n\nLocated at The Pub\, a basement bar at the University of Chicago’s Ida Noyes Hall. You can register online or on the same day\, in person:http://tiny.cc/feriaslam \n\n\n\nRemember: the point is not the points\, the point is the poetry. We want to grow a poetry community\, and invite new people to participate as audience members\, as poets\, and as spoken-word lovers. \n\n\n\nWe 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. \n\n\n\nSlam Diáspora is the first Spanish slam in Chicago 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. \n\n\n\nParticipants and winners from last year can participate again! \n\n\n\nThank you to El Beisman\, Feria del Libro Chicago\, the Guild Literary Complex\, Contratiempo + the University of Chicago for supporting this project  \n\n\n\n\n\n¿Qué es un Slam de Poesía?\n\n\n\nEl slam es un juego de poesía en el que los poetas interpretan sus obras originales frente a una audiencia y jueces\, y son “calificados” en función de ciertos criterios\, como contenido\, originalidad\, lyricismo\, entrega y presencia en el escenario. El concepto del Slam se originó en Chicago a mediados de la década de 1980 y desde entonces se ha extendido a nivel mundial.Los principios del slam son: la escucha profunda\, la palabra viva\, la alegría poética\, y la comuna creciente. \n\n\n\nLa intención de Slam Diáspora es conectar a poetas de raíz latinoamericana con poetas en América Latina\, a pesar de las fronteras\, y por medio de la palabra viva\, la palabra hablada. Slam Diáspora se conecta a la comuna de poesía slam: Slam Abya Yala\, y Poetry Slam México. \n\n\n\nLa estructura del Slam involucra varias rondas y límites de tiempo. Los poetas se eliminan después de cada ronda hasta que se declara un ganador. En este caso serán 10 poetas (registración abierta)\, habrán dos rondas\, y se permite 3 minutos por poema. \n\n\n\nEl slam es un juego de intercambio. El punto no son los puntos\, el punto es la comunidad que se crea. Para poetas que participan\, es una oportunidad para desarrollar sus habilidades escénicas\, y experimentar con la oralidad\, la palabra viva. \n\n\n\nEl slam hace volar poemas que muchas veces se quedan en papel.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/slam-diaspora-feria-del-libro/
LOCATION:The Pub – University of Chicago\, Ida Noyes Hall (basement)\, 1212 E 59th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60637\, United States
CATEGORIES:Slam Diáspora
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura Poetry Pop-Up @ Feria del Libro
DESCRIPTION:Palabra Pura Poetry Pop-Up featuring Carlos Cumpián\, Inmagela Abreu\, Beatriz Badikian-Gartler\, and Jonny Fadez\, with moderator Mary Hawley. This event is part of Feria del Libro (May 4-6).
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-poetry-pop-up-feria-del-libro/
LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall | University of Chicago\, 1212 E. 59th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:Feria del Libro (May 4-6)
DESCRIPTION:Somos un colectivo de escritores y editoriales independientes con el propósito de promoverla obra en español propia de Estados Unidos. \n\n\n\n¡PRÓXIMAMENTE! \n\n\n\nEl 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 más de 2 mil billones de dólares en 2022\, 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 4 al 6 de mayo de 2023 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-libro/
LOCATION:Ida Noyes Hall | University of Chicago\, 1212 E. 59th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:Transvengence | Maurice Tracy + Open Mic on April 26th
DESCRIPTION:Transvengence is back!  Launched in 2022 as part of the Guild’s Press Room series\, the brainchild of your host\, Joss Barton\, a trans performer\, poet and writer.  This event will include an open mic and feature: Maurice Tracy from St Louis. \n\n\n\nMaurice Tracy is a transfemme at the beginning of their journey. They are a social worker\, a cultural critic—at least in their mind—\, a home cook\, a lover\, a slut\, possibly a writer\, and a fat dark skin being trying to live and love and help make a better world than the one we’ve been asked to live in.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-maurice-tracy-open-mic-on-april-26th/
LOCATION:My Buddy’s (Upstairs)\, 4416 N Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640\, United States
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230424T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230424T170000
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SUMMARY:One State Conference & Capital Day
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Springfield for the largest gathering of the arts and culture community in Illinois!\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing a keynote address from J. Ivy\, sessions hosted by arts leaders from all over the state\, and a reception at the Governor’s Mansion hosted by First Lady MK Pritzker\, the One State Conference will be an action-packed day of camaraderie and shared learning. \n\n\n\nTake part as we share resources\, build and strengthen our network of mutual aid within the arts and culture sector in Illinois\, and support emerging artists and arts leaders. \n\n\n\nThe One State Conference will take place from 9am-5pm\, with an evening reception at the Governor’s Mansion. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Guild Complex will be presenting a panel\, “Podcasting and Complex Journalism: Hyper-local Racial Politics and the Storytelling to Change Them\,” on April 24th from 1-5pm:
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/one-state-conference-capital-day/
LOCATION:Hoogland Center for the Arts\, 420 S. 6th St.\, Springfield\, Illinois\, 62701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230415T190000
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SUMMARY:Exhibit B Presents: Seeing the Space Between Us | An Evening in Community with Diana Solís & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Chicago icon Diana Solís will be joined by an intergenerational group of Latinx artists and writers for readings and a conversation about the past/present/future of Spanish language poetry in Chicago. The event will also celebrate Solís’ recently released photography book\, Luz: Seeing The Space Between Us\, which tracks her return to photography and a matured sense of place within her home community of Pilsen in the wake of 2020’s COVID isolation and lockdown.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/exhibit-b-presents-seeing-the-space-between-us-an-evening-in-community-with-diana-solis-friends/
LOCATION:Pilsen Community Books\, 1102 W 18th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit B,Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230408T160000
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SUMMARY:“From the Mississippi Delta” Sneak Peek\, with Lifeline and Pegasus Theatres
DESCRIPTION:This event is one of several community events\, performances and conversations supporting Lifeline Theatre and Pegasus Theatre Chicago’s production FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA. For more details about the production and surrounding events\, see the Pegasus Theatre’s website\, their Facebook page\, and Eventbrite. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart of Lifeline’s season programming\, join the actors\, director and a member of the production team discussing the process with an excerpt from the play From the Mississippi Delta. A Q+A will follow with guest co-facilitator: Andrea Change\, executive director\, Guild Literary Complex. \n\n\n\nThe production runs at Lifeline Theatre from April 27-June 18; get tickets here!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/from-the-mississippi-delta-sneak-peek/
LOCATION:Lifeline Theatre\, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60626\, United States
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:Fuller Award: Reginald Gibbons
DESCRIPTION:Fuller Award: Reginald GibbonsThursday\, October 29\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.\nReginald Gibbons‘s prolific writing career has included publication of ten full-length poetry collections; a short story collection and a novel; numerous essays\, reviews\, columns\, and translations; and as editor a myriad of anthologies. His work is widely anthologized and has many Gibbons many prestigious literary honors\, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, the Carl Sandburg Prize\, and the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2004 O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize. Reg will become the tenth Chicago author to receive the Fuller Award for his lifetime achievements as an author\, scholar\, teacher\, and institution builder. The event is free and open to the public\, and includes an exhibit that will be available for viewing during the reception hour that precedes the ceremony. Details on the speaking lineup and registration will be available soon; check back for all the current information.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/fuller-award-reginald-gibbons/
LOCATION:Newberry Library\, 60 West Walton Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610
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SUMMARY:Musicality of Poetry: Marvin Tate
DESCRIPTION:Marvin Tate: Schoolyard of Broken Dreams \nas part of the Guild’s Musicality of Poetry series \nMore details coming soon.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/musicality-of-poetry-marvin-tate/
LOCATION:Illinois
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SUMMARY:GBOMA
DESCRIPTION:Check back soon for more details!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gboma/
LOCATION:Illinois
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Release for Mike Puican's Central Air
DESCRIPTION:Book Release and Reading for Mike Puican’s new book of poetry\, Central Air. \nSeptember 17\, 2020\n7:00pm – 8:00pm\, reception to follow\nPoetry Foundation\nAlso featuring readings from Mary Hawley and Marc Smith\, with an introduction from Mark Turcotte. \n \nPraise for Central Air: \n“When I read Mike Puican’s Central Air\, I can feel Chicago in my bones like hot sidewalks and gridded streets. Here is a Midwest crooner with a river of Red Line in his blood. Here is a catechism of Father-prayers and tenement doorways. Reader\, ‘Tonight the crack in the asphalt is speaking to me\,’ and its voice is wonderment wandering from Mike’s town to yours. Wherever you are\, open these pages to find a map back to a place where the wind is ruler of everything it touches\, a place that ‘twists its way into our hearts.’” —Pulitzer Prize winner\, Tyehimba Jess\, author of Olio \n“Here we have it—keenly addictive chronicles of the Chicago poet and his Chicago brethren\, living their just-ain’t-no-livin’-like-this Chicago lives against that utterly iconic Chicago backdrop. Mike Puican’s homage to that most relentless of cities is nothing less than revelatory\, and the poetic landscape will have to shift in appreciation.” —Patricia Smith\, author of Incendiary Art (Northwestern\, 2017) \n“In Mike Puican’s striking debut\, Central Air\, poems not only question our surroundings but allow our surroundings to question us—Chicago becoming as central a character as any other. With vivid imagery and a fine control of rhetoric\, Puican’s poems are as strong giving life to a bar joke as they are representing the challenges of addressing the divine.” —C. Dale Young\, author of The Affliction: A Novel in Stories \n“Mike Puican’s poems are stern\, compressed\, and unsentimental. But they are also big-hearted and empathic\, even when their evocations of human failing are at their most acute. The poems succeed through an unobtrusive mastery of craft\, surprising turns of imagery\, narrative precision\, and an unerring consistency of voice. The book is also a masterly evocation of contemporary Chicago\, a worthy successor to collections such as Sandburg’s Chicago Poems or Brook’s A Street in Bronzeville. This is notable company indeed.” —David Wojahn\, author of Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004 \n“Mike Puican’s Central Air is filled with vividly exuberant and deeply empathetic images of life. He has shaped the cheer and sorrows of hundreds of human moments into a bright constellation of poetic energy and inventiveness. His way of capturing spiritual as well as carnal intensities is striking and original. What a great debut! And a great Chicago book\, as well.” —Reginald Gibbons\, author of How Poems Think
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/book-release-for-mike-puicans-central-air/
LOCATION:The Poetry Foundation\, 61 W Superior St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200905T080000
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SUMMARY:Printers Row
DESCRIPTION:Printers Row Lit Fest 2020 has been postponed until September.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/printers-row/
LOCATION:Illinois
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SUMMARY:BrooksDay - Postponed
DESCRIPTION:BrooksDay 2020 will not be held on June 7th\, due to COVID-19 restrictions. We’re planning a date for the fall and will have more details soon.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/brooksday-2/
LOCATION:Illinois
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura Anniversary Launch
DESCRIPTION:More details coming soon!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-anniversary-launch/
LOCATION:Illinois
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200404T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200404T000000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200129T204402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T233215Z
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SUMMARY:Poesia en Abril - Postponed
DESCRIPTION:More details to come!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poesia-en-abril/
LOCATION:Illinois
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200331T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200331T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200312T162855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T174130Z
UID:5645-1585681200-1585681200@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Cancelled: 30W2W Book Release & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join the Guild Literary Complex in celebrating the recent release of The Distance Between by Timothy J. Hillegonds\, and a reading from Kenyatta Rogers\, two of the Guild’s 30 Writers to Watch. \nHillegonds’s memoir is a finely wrought exploration of\, and reckoning with\, absent fathers\, fatherhood\, violence\, adolescent rage\, white male privilege\, and his own toxic masculinity. With nuance and urgency\, The Distance Between takes readers through the grit of life on the margins while grappling with the problematic nature of one man’s existence. \nThe evening will also feature readings from:\nChris Green\nMichelle Morano \nTimothy J. Hillegonds is the author of The Distance Between (Nebraska\, 2019). His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune\, Salon\, The Daily Beast\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere on the web and in print. In 2019\, Tim was named by the Guild Literary Complex as one of their thirty “Writers to Watch.” He earned a Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University in Chicago\, and currently serves as a contributing editor for Slag Glass City\, a digital journal of the urban essay arts. \n  \nChris Green is the author of four books of poetry: The Sky Over Walgreens\, Epiphany School\, Résumé\, and Everywhere West (Mayapple Press\, 2019). His poetry has appeared in such publications as Poetry and The New York Times. He’s edited four anthologies\, including I Remember: Chicago Veterans of War and most recently\, American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans (Big Shoulders Books\, 2020). He teaches in the English Department at DePaul University. More information can be found at www.chrisgreenpoetry.com. \n  \n  \nMichele Morano is the author of the travel memoir Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain and the forthcoming memoir-in-essays Like Love. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies\, including Best American Essays\, Fourth Genre\, Ninth Letter\, and Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women. She lives in Chicago\, where she chairs the English Department at DePaul University. \n  \nKenyatta Rogers\, one of the Guild’s 30 Writers to Watch\, is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been awarded multiple scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. He has also been nominated multiple times for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. His work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from Jubilat\, Vinyl\, Bat City Review\, The Volta\, PANK\, MAKE Magazine among others. He is as a co-host of the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench\, an Associate Editor with RHINO Poetry and currently serves on the Creative Writing Faculty at the Chicago High School for the Arts.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/30w2w-book-release-reading/
LOCATION:Hopleaf\, 5148 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200321T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200321T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200312T161817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T173910Z
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Backbone Press Chicago Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Complex Presents: A reading with Backbone Press \nFeaturing our 30 Writers to Watch Tara Betts and Faisal Mohyuddin\, along with other Backbone Press authors Naoko Fujimoto\, Allison Joseph\, and Aozora Brockman. \nAs a response to the bleak state of diversity in publishing\, Backbone Press has been publishing diversely since 2012\, supporting writers who are considered marginalized voices and whose work may not be published elsewhere. Without the political\, protest\, diasporic\, voices of the poor\, and even prison writing\, there are no distinctions. These publications provide necessary bridges\, particularly in terms of generational\, gender\, and racial lines. In addition to informing\, they engage us in broader cultural conversations. \nTara Betts is the author of Break the Habit (Trio House Press) and Arc & Hue (Willow Books). She teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago and lives in Chicago. She has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and her work has appeared in Essence Magazine\, Callaloo\, Drum Voices Revue\, WSQ\, Columbia Poetry Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hanging Loose\, and Drunken Boat. \n  \nAozora Brockman holds an MFA from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in the Split Rock Review and Chicago Tribune. She grew up on a small\, family-operated organic farm in Central Illinois\, and much of her poetry is influenced by the meditative spaces of weeding and harvesting. \n  \n  \nNaoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya\, Japan. She was an exchange student and received a B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University. Her forthcoming poetry collections is Where I Was Born\, winner of the editor’s choice by Willow Books\, Spring\, 2019. Her first chapbook\, Home\, No Home\, won the annual Oro FinoChapbook Competition. She is a RHINO Poetry fellow. \n  \nAllison Joseph received a BA from Kenyon College and an MFA from Indiana University–Bloomington. She is the author of several poetry collections\, including Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press\, 2018); Worldly Pleasures (Word Press\, 2004); and What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand\, 1992)\, winner of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. She also serves as the editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. \n  \n Faisal Mohyuddin is a writer\, artist\, and educator from Chicago\, Illinois. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear Publishing\, 2018)\, winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize. The recipient of Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley Award and a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize\, his work appears in the Missouri Review\, Narrative\, Crab Orchard Review\, Poet Lore\, RHINO\, Tinderbox\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, Atlanta Review\, and elsewhere. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/backbone-press-chicago-reading/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200211T190122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200211T190122Z
UID:5618-1582138800-1582146000@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:One Poet/One Poem
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Guild’s annual One Poet/One Poem event as part of our ongoing bi-lingual Palabra Pura reading series. Here are this year’s participants: \nEmcee: \nMary Hawley \n\nReaders: \nEmmanuel Ayala \nEduardo Arocho \nMelissa Cintron \nCarlos Cumpián \nAngelica Davila \nNick Garcia \nSilvia Goldman \nGregorio Gomez \nAdam Gottlieb \nCarolina Herrera \nKolin Jordan \nOlivia Maciel \nPedro Pablo Marín \nElizabeth Marino \nBrian Martin \nPaul Martínez Pompa \nMiguel Marzana \nYolanda Nieves \nCynthia Pelayo \nMike Puican \nDavid Rade \nIvan Ramos \nMartha Cecilia Rivera \nStuart Ross \nXenia Ruiz \nJohanny Vázquez Paz
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/one-poet-one-poem-3/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200110T171839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200110T171903Z
UID:5565-1580407200-1580414400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Cyntoia Brown-Long: An Evening in Dialogue
DESCRIPTION: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. They will also reflect on the impact of trafficking in Black communities in recognition of January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month.\n\nWe will also hear from Chicago-based survivor leader and advocate\, Brenda Stewart\, who will open the evening with her own testimony of survival and the work she does to advocate for and support other survivors of exploitation and violence. There will be a Q+A with the audience towards the end of the program.\n\nFree Cyntoia will be available for purchase throughout the program.\n\nAll proceeds go directly to Cyntoia Brown-Long.\n\nTickets are available on a sliding scale from $5-20. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. The event is open to those aged 13 and up and accessible to those using wheelchairs or other mobility devices.\n\n\nFor more information\, please contact Nikki Patin at npatin@caase.org. \n\nParking Info:\nStreet parking is free and plentiful around the Reynold’s Club in the evenings and on the weekends. Visitor parking is also available in surface lots at University Avenue and 59th Street\, Ellis Avenue and 56th Street\, and in a garage at Ellis Avenue and 55th Street.\n\nLearn more about this event here.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/5565/
LOCATION:Mandel Hall\, 1131 E. 57th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191120T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200107T001849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T001849Z
UID:5527-1574276400-1574276400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Final Palabra Pura of 2019 on Translation
DESCRIPTION: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 of this event\, so feel free to bring a translation of yours (a poem or a few lines of a prose piece) for the open mic.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/final-palabra-pura-of-2019-on-translation/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200107T004042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T004042Z
UID:5545-1572375600-1572382800@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Incarcerated: Stories\, Poetry and Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Information Wants to Be Free & So Do We\nA Pop Up Library on Communication\, Control & Mass Incarceration \nIn collaboration with Read/Write Library\, the Guild Complex brings the stories from the formerly incarcerated. \n“Information Wants to Be Free & So Do We” asks audiences to question the idea that social\, emotional\, and intellectual control are necessary for public safety\, rehabilitation\, and justice. \nThe event will explore several different perspectives on the subject of incarceration with the following participants: \nA black\, female former corrections officer from Wisconsin\, Velvet Rose Moore-Owen\, will be reading an excerpt from her upcoming book\, Incarcerated: A Memoir. \nIn addition\, we will have representatives from the group\, Black and Pink. Black and Pink: Chicago is an open family of GLBTQ prisoners and “free world” allies who support each other. Our work toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex is rooted in the experience of currently and formerly incarcerated people. We are outraged by the specific violence of the prison industrial complex against GLBTQ people\, and respond through advocacy\, education\, direct service\, and organizing.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/incarcerated-stories-poetry-and-perspectives/
LOCATION:Read/Write Library at the Justice Hotel\, 6108 North Kenmore\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191016T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191016T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200107T003642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T003642Z
UID:5541-1571250600-1571259600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Film Screening: Luis Argueta's U Turn
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URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/film-screening-luis-arguetas-u-turn/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190917T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190917T183000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200107T011041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T011052Z
UID:5556-1568745000-1568745000@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:GBOMA Finals 2019
DESCRIPTION: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 contestants selected by guest judges from the poetry community are invited to perform their original poems at the live finals event\, where the audience favorite is awarded the $500 prize. \n\n\n \nPulitzer Prize winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) founded the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award twenty-five years ago. Brooks was born in Topeka\, Kansas and lived in Chicago for the rest of her life. She was the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry and numerous other books. Her many awards and honors include Poet Laureate of Illinois\, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress\, American Academy of Arts and Letters award\, a Pulitzer Prize\, the Frost Medal\, a National Endowment for the Arts award\, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation. \n  \n  \n  \nMargot McMahon\, Gwendolyn Brooks: The Oracle of Bronzeville (2018)\, Brooks Park\, Chicago \n\n\nThe list of finalists for GBOMA 2019 can be found here!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gboma-2019/
LOCATION:The Promontory\, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. West\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190724T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190724T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200107T001725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T001725Z
UID:5525-1563994800-1564002000@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Narraciones en Tiempos Distintos / Narrations in Different Times
DESCRIPTION: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\, el decálogo\, historias de supermarkets\, literalidad\, teorias secretas y mucho más. \nStories for difficult times and the evolution of the language\, from 4 different perspectives. Democracy\, intertextuality\, the wall\, THC\, LGBTTQQIAAP\, The Decalogue\, supermarkets stories\, literality\, secret theories and much more. \nCon:\nCarolina Herrera\nAnastacio Aranda\nLucia Wrooman\ny\nMiguel Marzana\n(curator)
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/narraciones-en-tiempos-distintos-narrations-in-different-times/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190629T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190629T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200107T003015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T003248Z
UID:5537-1561816800-1561825800@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest: Legacy of the Black Arts Movement
DESCRIPTION:A screening\, reading & conversation \nThis multi-media program looks at the legacy of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in Chicago as part of the opening weekend of the Of Poetry and Protest exhibit\, looking back at the history of Chicago’s BAM and reflecting on the artists and institutions that have extended its impact in the decades since the BAM was at its height in the city. Prof. Thabiti Lewis of Washington State University Vancouver will screen the in-progress documentary film BAM! Chicago’s Black Arts Movement he is co-directing with Prof. Pavithra Narayanan\, and Of Poetry and Protest Co-Editor/Guild Founding Director Michael Warr\, along with some Special Guests\, will read poetry and conduct a public conversation about how the legacy of the BAM lives on in Chicago.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/of-poetry-and-protest-legacy-of-the-black-arts-movement/
LOCATION:Illinois
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190628T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190628T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200107T003223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T003223Z
UID:5539-1561743000-1561750200@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest Exhibit Opening
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Guild Literary Complex + Rebuild Foundation \nContinuing 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: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (WW Norton)\, this exhibit seeks to capture the transformative power that fuels social movements and sustains families and communities confronting state violence against black and brown youth. Curated by Of Poetry and Protest Co-Editor/Guild Founding Director Michael Warr together with The Guild and Rebuild\, the exhibit presents words and images – portraits\, poems\, documentation\, and creative responses — featured in the book\, alongside Present Absence\, a five-channel video installation by the artists Salome Chasnoff + Meredith Zielke that makes visible the lives of individuals killed by Chicago Police through stories generated from intimate one-on-one interviews with their families and close friends. This work is presented along with\, and in response to\, Rebuild Foundation’s Objects of Care: Material Memorial for Tamir Rice on the Arts Bank lawn. The opening will provide a chance to view all of these works and meet the artists and curators behind the exhibit\, who will also speak about the work during a short\, informal public conversation. Light appetizers will be provided and the Stony Island Arts Bank’s bar will be open for business. The Of Poetry and Protest exhibit will remain on display through the summer. \n  \nPresent Absence promo video from salome chasnoff on Vimeo.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/of-poetry-and-protest-exhibit-opening/
LOCATION:Stony Island Arts Bank\, 6760 S. Stony Island Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190626T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190626T213000
DTSTAMP:20260423T201544
CREATED:20200107T010626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T010626Z
UID:5554-1561573800-1561584600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:The Guild's 30th Anniversary Party
DESCRIPTION: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 Watch in 2019 and beyond. We saw old friends & made some new ones\, while enjoying music\, hors d’oeuvres\, and an-end-of night raffle featuring unique artifacts from the Guild’s archives.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/the-guilds-30th-anniversary-party/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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