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SUMMARY:"Black Fire: This Time"  |  A Reading
DESCRIPTION:Black Fire: This Time\, Volume 1 from Willow Books (a division of Aquarius Press) celebrates the roots and legacy of the Black Arts Movement featuring the works of over 100 poets and writers.  \n\n\n\nPublished last spring\, perfectly captures the spirit of sankofa\, a word from the Akan people of Ghana that roughly translates to “it is not taboo to fetch what is at riskof being left behind.” Black Fire This Time serves up generous portions of essays and plays\, but poetry is the main entrée. \n\n\n\nThe Aquarius Press anthology pays tribute to Black Fire\, a 1968 anthology edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal that signaled the beginning of the Black Power movement in America and amplifies the new sentiment “Black is Beautiful. Black is Powerful. Black is Home.” \n\n\n\n“In 20 years or so when future anthologists produce an anthology that will reflect a future state of Black writing\,” literary icon Ishmael Reed writes in the volume’s introduction\, “they will find this one hard to surpass.” \n\n\n\nThis reading will feature some local contributors from the book\, including Curtis L. Crisler\, Charlois Lumpkin\, aka Mali Newman\, Halima J. Olufemi\, and Katrina Washington\, along with special guests Michael Warr and Tongo Eisen-Martin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Writers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCurtis L. Crisler was born and raised in Gary\, Indiana. Crisler has five full-length poetry books\, two YA books\, and five poetry chapbooks. He’s been published in a variety of magazines\, journals\, and anthologies. He’s been an editor and contributing poetry editor. Also\, he created the Indiana ChitlinCircuit. Crisler is a Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHalima J. Olufemi was born and raised in Jackson\, MS. She is a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement\, JXN People’s Assembly and work with the People’s Advocacy Institute around their Participatory Defense Program. “My work is deeply rooted in the total liberation of Black people.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlois Lumpkin\, aka Mali Newman\, is a native of St. Louis\, Missouri and a member of the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club and its performance troupe\, the Soular Systems Ensemble. Her work has appeared in Drumvoices Revue\, Valley Voices—A Literary Review\, Crossing the Divide from the Poets of St. Louis and The Hoot and Holler of the Owls\, an anthology published by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. New work will appear in the forthcoming anthology 400 years: stories of black people in poems written from love\, published by Broadside/Lotus Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffins Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His latest book “Blood On The Fog” was released this fall in the City Lights Pocket Poets series and named one of the New York Times poetry books of the year. In 2020\, he co-founded Black Freighter Press to publish revolutionary works. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoet Michael Warr’s literary honors include San Francisco Arts Commission Awards in 2023 and 2021  and the 2020 Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex (Tia Chucha Press). He is a San Francisco Library Laureate and recipient of a Creative Work Fund Award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His poetry is translated into Chinese as part of “Two Languages / One Community” a collaborative project with poet and translator Chun Yu. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora\, a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, and founding Director of the Guild Literary Complex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatrina Washington is a poet and prose writer from the south side of Chicago. She holds a BA in English with a concentration in Poetry as well as Masters in Higher Education Administration and Organizational Leadership. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English with concentrations in Poetry\, Prose\, and Black Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Katrina has published work in online journals such as Kissing Dynamite and will be featured in the upcoming anthology Selkie Noticia. Outside of teaching and writing\, Katrina enjoys cooking\, being black\, and rebelling against gender and racial oppression.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/blk-fire-this-time-a-reading/
LOCATION:Blanc Gallery\, 4445 South King Drive\, Chicago\, Illinois
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SUMMARY:"…Advice at the beginning of the revolution" with Michael Warr + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Press Room series\, join us for a reading and discussion with Bay Area authors\, Michael Warr and Tongo Eisen-Martin (San Fransisco Poet Laureate) about their work\, the nature of protest\, and how the historical acts of revolution during the heyday of the Black Power Movement in the Bay Area have influenced literary activism in a post-George Floyd era of radical social change. \n\n\n\n“. . .Advice at the beginning of the revolution” is a line from Tongo Eisen-Martin’s poem “A Good Earth“ and serves as a framework for this important conversation. \n\n\n\n**We ask that all attendees wear masks during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments.** \n\n\n\nRSVP on Eventbrite here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin\n\n\n\nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffins Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His latest book “Blood On The Fog” was released this fall in the City Lights Pocket Poets series and named one of the New York Times poetry books of the year. In 2020\, he co-founded Black Freighter Press to publish revolutionary works. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Warr\n\n\n\nPoet Michael Warr’s literary honors include San Francisco Arts Commission Awards in 2023 and 2021  and the 2020 Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex (Tia Chucha Press). He is a San Francisco Library Laureate and recipient of a Creative Work Fund Award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His poetry is translated into Chinese as part of “Two Languages / One Community” a collaborative project with poet and translator Chun Yu. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora\, a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, and founding Director of the Guild Literary Complex.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/advice-at-the-beginning-of-the-revolution-with-michael-warr-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W. Buena Ave.\, Chicago\, Illinois
CATEGORIES:Press Room
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SUMMARY:A Night with Ana Castillo
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Hilton/Asmus Galleries\, the Guild Complex will host a special reading with Ana Castillo from her new book\, Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home. Joining her will be special guest\, IL Poet Laureate Angela Jackson. \n\n\n\nThe event will take place on Monday\, June 26th\, from 6:30pm – 8:30pm at the Hilton/Asmus Gallery\, Bridgeport location (3622 S. Morgan St. at the Morgan Art Complex). \n\n\n\nItems from her current exhibition\, The Many Loves of Ana Castillo\, will be available to view. There will be a brief reception along with a book signing immediately following the reading. Beer provided by Sketchbook Brewery.  \n\n\n\n// \n\n\n\nAna Castillo is a multilingual poet\, novelist\, essayist\, editor\, feminist theorist\, playwright\, translator\, human rights and environmental activist and visual artist.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/a-night-with-ana-castillo/
LOCATION:Asmus/Hilton Gallery (Morgan Arts Complex\, Bridgeport)\, 3622 S. Morgan St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, United States
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SUMMARY:TransVengence | Aza Greenlee\, Noa/Nomi Micaela Fields\, and Ava Mirage Wanbli on June 20th
DESCRIPTION:Join us for TransVengence with your host\, Joss Barton! \n\n\n\nThis month features readings by Aza Greenlee\, Noa/Moni Micaela Fields\, and Ava Mirage Wanbli. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 7pm upstairs at My Buddy’s!  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\n\n\nNoa Micaela (Nomi) Fields is an echodeviant* (*trans poets with hearing aids) in search of transversal wildness in her one and only captionless life. Find her poems and other writing in Tripwire\, Anomaly\, Zoeglossia\, Elderly\, Tyger Quarterly\, and Sixty Inches From Center. She is a programming curator at the Poetry Foundation and a 2022 Fellow at Disability Lead and Zoeglossia.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAza Greenlee is a body artist and co-conspirator at No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab. This coalescence is one to galavant in dreamscapes\, ancestral juke joints\, chaturbate masturbation web temples\, loose-tooth tanks\, and The Heartspace. They organize “Smudge Cinema Project”\, a now-and-then-wait-when? screening series that takes a look at what happens when a film is projected on a wall for people to watch. Metabolization seems to be what they appear to do\, lately. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAva Mirage Wanbli is a New Media artist and performer based in Chicago\, IL. Her work operates in a multitude of formats\, mediums\, and presentations of persona to build engagement through virtual and physical aspects of virtual world construction. Ava utilizes video game engines\, live performance\, installations\, sculptures\, video\, and body to process components of the self through modalities of becoming. She investigates aspects of performing for the camera\, mirrors\, and virtual reconstructions of the body through 3D scanning\, avatar creation\, and virtual environment building as a means to craft a voice that speaks towards collapsed temporalities\, archiving the body\, as well as potentials of future self. Much of Ava’s work is also in conversation with aspects of fetishization of the consumed body through media depictions and how persona is framed through technology. In her primary approaches\, she aims to confront the voyeur as well as communicate the complexities of trans narratives through hyper-sexualized imagery and performance. \n\n\n\nAva received her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019. Alongside her art practice and community engagement\, she has been an educator at multiple art institutions for the last 4 years. She is a recipient of 3Arts New Wave Artists Award\, and has been a resident of ACRE Artist residency as well as New Art City Residency. Her most current work has shown at Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Gallery in Chicago and is now being shown in a 6 month solo exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Wanbli has also been published in Tone Magazine as well as curated events at Mana Contemporary in Chicago. Ava continues to organize and build spaces to further her commitment to the conversations around her transwoman body and the voice that it can hold to educate\, uplift\, and complicate narratives around selfhood through hyper-visibility and fetishization.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/transvengence-aza-greenlee-noa-nomi-micaela-fields-and-ava-wanbli-on-june-20th/
LOCATION:My Buddy’s (Upstairs)\, 4416 N Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640\, United States
CATEGORIES:Press Room,Transvengence
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SUMMARY:10th Annual BrooksDay
DESCRIPTION:BrooksDay 2023 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 10th anniversary of BrooksDay! Join the Guild Literary Complex as we honor the legacy of poet Gwendolyn Brooks and celebrate the launch of One Poem\, One Chicago\, which starts with a reissue of Brooks’ 1987 poetry collection Blacks (Third World Press). \n\n\n\nOne Poem\, One Chicago is a collaboration of the Poetry Foundation\, the Chicago Public Library\, Third World Press\, Brooks Permissions\, and Northwestern University Press. Blacks will be reissued for the 2023 program and printed by Northwestern University Press; copies of the newly published edition will be available at all 81 branches of the Chicago Public Library and in the Poetry Foundation’s poetry library. A limited-run print edition of the collection will be available to the public for purchase from Third World Press. \n\n\n\nSince 2013\, BrooksDay has been a marquee event in the Guild’s yearly calendar with many literary\, cultural\, and civic leaders from Chicago and beyond taking the stage to celebrate and honor Gwendolyn Brooks\, former poet Laureate of Illinois and the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize. \n\n\n\nWant to learn more about Gwendolyn Brooks and her legacy? Check out her page on the Poetry Foundation website here! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 BrooksDay Events\n\n\n\nThis year’s BrooksDay will include: \n\n\n\n12:00 pmDoors open for workshop participants only12:15-1:15 pmGolden Shovel Workshop with Maggie Queeney (limited space\, please register here)1:00 pmDoors open for BrooksDay reading1:30 pmBrooksDay reading begins3:30 pmBreak + birthday cake celebration!5:30 pmReading concludes\n\n\n\nAfterwards\, join Brooks Permissions for ALL THIS LIFE: Examining Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha! The panel will feature Sandra Cisneros\, Dr. Joanne Gabbin\, and Sandra Jackson-Opoku delving into the profound impact of Gwendolyn Brooks and her seminal novel\, Maud Martha. The event will be streamed live on Wednesday\, June 7\, 2023\, from 7:00pm to 8:15pm (Central Time) on Brooks Permissions’s Facebook and YouTube channels.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/10th-annual-brooksday/
LOCATION:South Shore Cultural Center\, 7059 S South Shore Dr.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60649
CATEGORIES:BrooksDay
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230504T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230504T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20230404T032014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230414T184651Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20230406T225824Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20230404T030634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T185717Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20230404T033313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T185528Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230408T173000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20230404T021543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T185330Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201029T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200429T234057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201110T002718Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201009T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200429T234252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T234252Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200924T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200429T233734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T233734Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200429T232736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T232736Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200906T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200429T233543Z
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200608
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200129T210803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T232921Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200429T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200429T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200429T234717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T234717Z
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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:20260423T182304
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:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200312T162855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T174130Z
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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:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200312T161817Z
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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:20260423T182304
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200130T200000
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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:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200107T001849Z
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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:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200107T004042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T004042Z
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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:20260423T182304
CREATED:20200107T003642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T003642Z
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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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