Crafting Castoffs into “Unnatural Spaces”
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...
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Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United States
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new project from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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....
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2012 Prose Awards for Short Fiction and Non-Fiction – Recognition Event
Chopin Theatre 1543 W. Division (near Milwaukee and Ashland), Chicago, IL, United StatesThe 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...
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Congratulations to the 2012 Prose Awards Finalists!
Chopin Theatre 1543 West Division Street, Chicago, United StatesCongratulations 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...
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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....
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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....
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“Unnatural Spaces” – a new project from the Poetry Performance Incubator
Hairpin Arts Center 2800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, United StatesPoetry 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...
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Palabra Pura: “Rooster Footed Devils”
La Bruquena 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL, United StatesThis installment of Palabra Pura will explore the effect on individuals and communities of not fitting in to preconceived Latino identities. It is curated by Jennifer Patiño and featuring poets...
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PALABRA PURA: “One Poet / One Poem”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Select a Country:PALABRA PURA: "ONE POET / ONE POEM" Wednesday, Janurary 16, 7:30pm, FREELa Bruquena Restaurant (Upstairs), 2726 W. Division The Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the eighth season of...
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Palabra Pura: “Weather / Whether”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Select a Country:The Guild Literary Complex (GLC) continues the eighth year of Palabra Pura with an evening of bilingual poetry titled, “Whether in Chicago.” Curated by Rafael Franco, this event asks us to...
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Applied Words: “A Night of Love”
Fulton Street Collective 2000 W Fulton S, Select a Country:THE GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX and CHICAGO DANZTHEATRE ENSEMBLE PRESENT: “A NIGHT OF LOVE” “There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy...
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Palabra Pura: Poems as Stories, Stories as Poems
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floor, Select a Country:Dawn Herrera Featuring Dawn Herrera Helphand and Denise Ruiz, Poems as Stories, Stories as Poems explores the ways that poetry opens up narrative possibilities. At once funny and fierce,...
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Poetry Performance Incubator: “Tour Guides”
Beverly Arts Center 2407 West 111th StreetBeverly Arts Center The Guild Literary Complex is pleased to announce the 2013 remount of “Tour Guides”. Produced in 2010 as part of the Poetry Performance Incubator, “Tour Guides”,...
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Palabra Pura: “Telling Our Stories Through the Body”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorJoin us this April for "Telling Our Stories Through the Body," curated by Erika Sánchez and featuring Juana Iris Goergen and Ruben Quesada. More details below. Erika L. Sánchez Erika...
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2013 Benefit: “Talkin’ Blues: a Tribute to Sterling Plumpp”
Rosa’s Blues Lounge 3420 W. ArmitageYou are cordially invited to our fourth annual benefit, Talkin' Blues, honoring Sterling Plumpp, renowned Chicago-based Blues poet, on May 14. The Guild Literary Complex will pay tribute to his...
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Palabra Pura: “Noche de Novelas / Night of Novels”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorJoin us for a monthly bilingual poetry series, guest curated by Raul Dorantes and featuring Mark Litwicki, Martha Cecelia Rivera, and Febronio Zatarain. On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, Palabra Pura presents...
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BROOKSDAY
The Chicago Cultural Center 78 E Washington St.Guild Literary Complex, Third World Press, and The American Writers Museum present the first annual BROOKSDAY at The Chicago Cultural Center! Join us, as we are creating the first annual marathon...
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Printer’s Row Lit Fest
Printers Row Between Dearborn and Polk , ChicagoJoin us at this year's Printers Row Lit Fest for a special reading by past contest winners and poets from our Poetry Performance Incubator. Reading takes place at noon on...
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Palabra Pura: “Blood, Family, and Tears / Sangre, Familia y Lágrimas”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorOur monthly bilingual poetry event. Curated by Johanny Vázquez Paz featuring Dinorah Cortés-Vélez and Teresa Vázquez. Dinorah Cortés-Vélez Dinorah Cortés-Velez Dinorah Cortés-Vélez is from Isabela, Puerto Rico. She has resided...
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Applied Words: Broken Windows POSTPONED
Due to a severe weather forecast we have postponed tonight's event. Applied Words: "Broken Windows" will now be held on Tuesday, September 3, 2013. Visit the new event page for...
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Palabra Pura: “The Diaspora Daughters Speak”
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorAfro-Latino(a)s/Caribbeans are challenged to reconcile what are seen as conflicting identities. The Guild Literary Complex sheds poetic light on the topic with “The Diaspora Daughters Speak,” the July installment of...
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Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards
Chopin Theater 1543 W DivisionGuild Literary Complex is pleased to announce the 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. Join us Tuesday July 23, 2013, 7:00 pm, at the Chopin Theater, 1542 W Division...
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Poetry Performance Incubator Auditions
Free Street Theatre 1419 W. Blackhawk St, Chicago, IL, United StatesThe Poetry Performance Incubator is seeking poets and other writers to collaborate on the creation of a workshop production of Like Bread, a new theatrical performance about making space for a creative life. We are...
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Applied Words: Broken Windows
Polish Triangle ChicagoIf urban design is the language of the city, where is the story – and who tells it? In Applied Words: on Architecture and the Urban Plan, the Guild Literary...
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Palabra Pura: Inspiration
La Bruquena restaurant 2726 W. Division, 2nd floorPoets meet muse at the September installment of our monthly bilingual poetry series, Palabra Pura, curated by Irasema Gonzalez and featuring poets Diana Pando and Xánath Caraza. “Inspiration” takes place...
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Poetry: Work Is Love Made Visible
Jak's Tap 901 W. Jackson, Chicago, IL, United StatesWork Is Love Made Visible will feature visiting poet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and include Chicago authors Quaraysh Ali Lansana and Eduardo Arocho for an evening of working class poetry and...
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Poetry: What’s Class Got To Do With It??!!
Lunt Lake Co-op Apartments (Community Room) 1138 W Lunt, Chicago, IL, United StatesA reading on the theme of “working class poetry,” this is a program of Occupy Rogers Park Chicago and is co-sponsored by Guild Complex and Chicago Consortium For Working-Class Studies....
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Applied Words: Re-Built: Writers on Architecture and the Urban Plan
The Original Sears Tower 930 S. Homan Ave.If urban design is the language of the city, where is the story – and who tells it? In "Re-Built: Writers on Architecture and the Urban Plan" the Guild Literary...
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2013 Prose Awards
Chopin Theater 1543 W DivisionEvery fall we recognize outstanding short fiction and non-fiction from across the State of Illinois and award $250 cash prizes to one outstanding writer in each category. Please join us...
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