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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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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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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\, 1531 W. 18th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit B,Palabra Pura
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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:Palabra Pura: Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration / Celebración Del Décimoquinto Aniversario De Palabra Pura
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recorded virtual event HERE \nJoin us for a reading and moderated discussion celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Palabra Pura \n\n\n\nJoin us for a reading and moderated discussion celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Palabra Pura with readings by Francisco Aragón\, Brenda Cárdenas\, Miguel Marzana\, and Johanny Vázquez Paz and moderated by Mary Hawley. \nAcompáñenos para celebrar el decimoquinto aniversario de Palabra Pura con una lectura de poesía y conversatorio con los poetas Francisco Aragón\, Brenda Cárdenas\, Miguel Marzana\, y Johanny Vázquez Paz. Mary Hawley será la moderadora. \n– \nPalabra Pura is a bilingual reading series that promotes literary expression in Spanish\, English\, and other languages. Launched in 2006 by the Guild Literary Complex\, the series celebrates the work of Latinx writers in Chicago and beyond\, and provides a space for the interaction of diverse voices\, ideas\, and aesthetics. \nPalabra Pura es una serie de lecturas bilingües que promueve la expresión literaria en español\, inglés y otros idiomas. Lanzada en 2006 por el Guild Literary Complex\, la serie celebra la obra de escritores latinx dentro y fuera de Chicago\, y provee un espacio para la interacción de voces\, ideas y estéticas diversas. \n– \nFrancisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. His books include After Rubén (Red Hen Press)\, Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press)\, and Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press). He’s also the editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press). His work has appeared in over twenty anthologies and various literary journals\, both print and online. A native of San Francisco\, CA\, he is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies\, where he teaches courses in Latinx poetry and creative writing. He also directs their literary initiative\, Letras Latinas. A finalist for Split This Rock’s Freedom Plow Award for poetry and activism\, he has read his work widely\, including at universities\, bookstores\, art galleries\, the Dodge Poetry Festival and the Split This Rock Poetry Festival. A CantoMundo fellow\, he is also a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop. For more information\, visit: http://franciscoaragon.net \nFrancisco Aragón es hijo de inmigrantes nicaragüenses. Sus libros incluyen After Rubén (Red Hen Press)\, Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press) y Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press). También es editor de The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press). Sus obras han aparecido en más de veinte antologías y varias revistas literarias\, tanto impresas como en línea. Oriundo de San Francisco\, CA\, es miembro de la facultad del Instituto de Estudios Latinos de la Universidad de Notre Dame\, donde enseña cursos en poesía latinx y escritura creativa. También dirige Letras Latinas\, la iniciativa literaria del Instituto. Fue finalista para el Premio Freedom Plow para poesía y activismo de Split This Rock\, y ha presentado extensamente sus obras en las universidades\, librerías\, galerías de arte\, el Festival de Poesía Dodge y el Festival de Poesía Split This Rock. Es becario de CantoMundo y miembro del Taller de Escritura Macondo. Para más información\, visite: http://franciscoaragon.net \n– \nBrenda Cárdenas’ books and chapbooks include Boomerang (Bilingual Press); Bread of the Earth/The Last Colors with Roberto Harrison; Achiote Seeds/Semillas de Achiote with Cristina García\, Emmy Pérez\, and Gabriela Erandi Rico; and From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Momotombo Press). She also co-edited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press). Cárdenas’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in Latino Poetics: The Art of Poetry; Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Hope and Resilience; Grabbed: Take Back the Narrative; Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems; Court Green; Ghost Fishing: An Eco Justice Anthology; POETRY; The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry and many others. She has served as Milwaukee’s Poet Laureate\, co-taught the inaugural workshop for Letras Latina’s Pintura : Palabra: A Project in Ekphrasis\, and is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \nLos libros y plaquettes de Brenda Cárdenas incluyen Boomerang (Bilingual Press); Bread of the Earth/The Last Colors con Roberto Harrison; Achiote Seeds/Semillas de Achiote con Cristina García\, Emmy Pérez y Gabriela Erandi Rico; y From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Momotombo Press). También coeditó Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil Press) y Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press). Sus obras han aparecido o se van a publicar en Latino Poetics: The Art of Poetry; Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Hope and Resilience; Grabbed: Take Back the Narrative; Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems; Court Green; Ghost Fishing: An Eco Justice Anthology; POETRY; The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry y muchos otros. Ha sido Poeta Laureada de Milwaukee\, coenseñó el taller inaugural de Pintura : Palabra: A Project in Ekphrasis de Letras Latinas y es Profesora asociada de inglés en la Universidad de Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \n– \nMary Hawley is a poet\, fiction writer\, and translator. She is the author of a poetry collection\, Double Tongues (Tía Chucha Press) and co-translator of the bilingual anthology Shards of Light/Astillas de luz (Tia Chucha Press). Her poems and short stories have appeared in many journals and anthologies\, and she received a 2019 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. She is a volunteer interpreter for the National Immigrant Justice Center and a member of the Third Coast Translators Collective. A longtime supporter of the Guild Literary Complex\, she has been involved with Palabra Pura since its inception. \nMary Hawley es poeta\, cuentista y traductora. Es autora del poemario Double Tongues (Tía Chucha Press) y cotraductora de la antología bilingüe Shards of Light/Astillas de Luz (Tia Chucha Press). Sus poemas y cuentos han aparecido en muchas revistas y antologías\, y en 2019 recibió el Premio Literario del Consejo de Artes de Illinois. Es intérprete voluntaria para el Centro Nacional de Justicia para Inmigrantes y miembro de la Third Coast Translators Collective. Ha sido partidaria del Guild Literary Complex desde hace muchos años\, y se ha involucrado en Palabra Pura desde su comienzo. \n– \nMiguel Marzana \nPoeta y escritor boliviano. Es autor del poemario Descomposiciones – aceite de un cielo publicado por la editorial Verso Destierro en la ciudad de México\, en el año 2019. Actualmente estudia en la Escuela Graham de la Universidad de Chicago\, es coordinador del taller de poesía y creación literaria de la revista Contratiempo\, y miembro de su consejo editorial. Su obra ha sido publicada en varias antologías de poesía y cuento\, como Poeta en Nueva York: Poetas de Tierra y Luna\, publicado por Karima Editora y Eterno\, Antología Hispanoamericana de Cuento sobre Amor\, publicada por Infinita Ed.\, entre otras\, y revistas impresas como la revista Diálogo publicada por el Center for Latino Research at DePaul University\, además de revistas virtuales dentro y fuera de los EE.UU.; parte de su obra ha sido traducida al inglés\, quechua y catalán. Vive en Chicago. \nMiguel Marzana \nBolivian poet and writer. He is the author of the poetry collection Descomposiciones – aceite de un cielo\, published by Ed. Verso Destierro in Mexico City in 2019. He currently studies at the Graham School of the University of Chicago\, coordinates the poetry and creative writing workshops of Contratiempo magazine\, and is also a member of its editorial board. His work has been published in various short story and poetry anthologies such as Poet in New York: Poetas de Tierra y Luna\, published by Karima Editora\, and Eterno\, Antología Hispanoamericana de Cuento sobre Amor\, published by Infinita Ed.\, among others\, and in print magazines such as Diálogo\, published by the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University. He has also published poetry and short stories in virtual magazines inside and outside the US; part of his work has been translated into English\, Quechua and Catalán. He lives in Chicago. \n– \nJohanny Vázquez Paz (Puerto Rico) \nWinner of the 2018 Paz Prize for Poetry given by the National Poetry Series in partnership with the Miami Book Fair. Her winning manuscript\, I Offer My Heart as a Target / Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana\, was published in a bilingual edition by Akashic Books in 2019. Among her other books are Sagrada familia (Isla Negra Editores\, Puerto Rico\, 2014)\, winner of the International Latino Book Award; Querido voyeur (Ediciones Torremozas\, Spain\, 2012); and Streetwise Poems /Poemas callejeros (Mayapple Press\, New York\, 2007). She won first prize in the poetry category at the Consenso Short Story and Poetry Contest of Northeastern Illinois University\, and second prize in the short story category. She also co-edited the anthology Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press\, Chicago\, 2001). Her poetry and short stories have been included in the anthologies City of Big Shoulders; Diáspora: Narrativa breve en español de Estados Unidos; Ellas cuentan: Antología de Crime Fiction por latinoamericanas en EEUU; and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century\, among others. \nJohanny Vázquez Paz (Puerto Rico) \nGanadora del Premio Paz de Poesía 2018 otorgado por la Feria del Libro de Miami y la organización National Poetry Series. Su poemario I Offer My Heart as a Target / Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana fue publicado en una edición bilingüe por la editorial Akashic en 2019. Entre sus otros libros se encuentran Sagrada familia (Isla Negra Editores\, Puerto Rico\, 2014)\, ganador del International Latino Book Award; Querido voyeur (Ediciones Torremozas\, España) y Poemas callejeros / Streetwise Poems (Mayapple Press\, Nueva York\, 2007). En 2012\, recibió el primer premio en poesía y segundo premio en cuento en el Concurso de Cuento y Poesía Consenso de la Universidad Northeastern Illinois. Además\, coeditó la antología Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press\, Chicago\, 2001). Sus poemas y cuentos han sido publicados en las antologías City of Big Shoulders; Diáspora: Narrativa breve en español de Estados Unidos; Ellas cuentan: Antología de Crime Fiction por latinoamericanas en EEUU y The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century\, entre otras. \n– \nAbout the Guild Literary Complex \nFor the last thirty years\, the Guild Literary Complex has been a dynamic presence on Chicago’s literary landscape\, hosting innovative and diverse events\, featuring prominent authors and welcoming new\, emerging voices. \nWorking collaboratively with individuals and organizations from Chicago’s many neighborhoods\, including the Poetry Foundation\, the Guild seeks to connect seemingly disparate groups and geographies through literature—bringing unexpected writers\, programs\, and audiences together. For more information\, visit www.guildcomplex.org. \n– \nPoetry Foundation’s events are completely free of charge and open to the public. This reading will include live captioning. If you require any other accessibility measures\, please contact us by emailing events@poetryfoundation.org. To find out more about Zoom’s own built-in accessibility features\, please visit https://zoom.us/accessibility. \n  \nLos eventos de Poetry Foundation son libres de costo y abiertos al público. Esta lectura será presentada con subtítulos en vivo. Si necesita utilizar medidas de accesibilidad\, por favor envíe un correo electrónico a events@poetryfoundation.org. Para más información sobre las medidas de accesibilidad en Zoom\, visite https://zoom.us/accessibility
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-fifteenth-anniversary-celebration-celebracion-del-decimoquinto-aniversario-de-palabra-pura/
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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/
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SUMMARY:GBOMA
DESCRIPTION:Check back soon for more details!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gboma/
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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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SUMMARY:Printers Row
DESCRIPTION:Printers Row Lit Fest 2020 has been postponed until September.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/printers-row/
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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/
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura Anniversary Launch
DESCRIPTION:More details coming soon!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-anniversary-launch/
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DTSTAMP:20200429T233215Z
CREATED:20200129T204402Z
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UID:5592-1585958400-1585958400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Poesia en Abril - Postponed
DESCRIPTION:More details to come!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poesia-en-abril/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200331T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200331T190000
DTSTAMP:20200317T174130Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200321T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200321T170000
DTSTAMP:20200317T173910Z
CREATED:20200312T161817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T173910Z
UID:5634-1584801000-1584810000@guildcomplex.org
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:20200211T190122Z
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:20200110T171903Z
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:20200107T001849Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20200107T004042Z
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:20200107T003642Z
CREATED:20200107T003642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T003642Z
UID:5541-1571250600-1571259600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Film Screening: Luis Argueta's U Turn
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/film-screening-luis-arguetas-u-turn/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190917T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190917T183000
DTSTAMP:20200107T011052Z
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:20200107T001725Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190629T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190629T163000
DTSTAMP:20200107T003248Z
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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190628T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190628T193000
DTSTAMP:20200107T003223Z
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:20200107T010626Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190607T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190607T200000
DTSTAMP:20200107T010423Z
CREATED:20200107T010340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T010423Z
UID:5549-1559919600-1559937600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:BrooksDay 2019
DESCRIPTION:BrooksDay is the Guild Literary Complex’s annual celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks\, held every year on June 7th\, the anniversary of her birth.  Since 2013\, BrooksDay has been a marquee event in the Guild’s 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.  BrooksDay honors her legacy as an artist and an iconic figure of generosity and civic conscience in Chicago and the nation. \n5pm Reception\nEach year\, BrooksDay is unique\, but BrooksDay always commemorates Gwendolyn Brooks’ artistic achievements\, her legendary generosity toward other poets\, her influence as a pathbreaking cultural figure in Chicago and beyond\, and her well-deserved status as one of the standard-bearers for progressive values and contemporary poetry in modern Chicago\, through public performances of her work. BrooksDay 2019 is a collaboration between The Guild Complex\, Brooks Permissions\, and Third World Press Foundation\, who have sponsored previous BrooksDays\, and the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University\, where Ms Brooks taught\, and which has recently renamed their library in her honor. \n3-5pm\n4th Floor Atrium\nThe Guild Literary Complex presents a reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’ work featuring members of Chicago’s literary arts community\ncarrying on Ms Brooks’ commitment to the literary arts and literary artists:\nNile Lansana\, Nicole Bond\, Timothy Rey\, Michael Fischer\, Chloe Johnston\, Liz McCabe\, Mike Puican\,\nJennifer Karmin & Marcy Rae Henry\, William Ayers\, Mojdeh Stoakley\, Mario\, Serena Simpson\,\nAngela Jackson\, Haki R. Madhubuti\, & Nora Brooks Blakely \n5-6pm\n4th Floor Solarium\nThe Event Sponsors host a reception celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks’ life and work on her birthday with appetizers and birthday cake! \n6-8pm\n4th Floor Atrium\nThe Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University presents a program in honor of the legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks \nEvent Sponsors: \n \n \n@
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/5549/
LOCATION:Chicago State University\, Gwendolyn Brooks Library\, 9501 S. King Drive\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190530T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190530T193000
DTSTAMP:20200107T002217Z
CREATED:20200107T002217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T002217Z
UID:5529-1559244600-1559244600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Performing Identities On (& Off) the Page: Queer Femme Artists of Color
DESCRIPTION:Building on a conversation begun with last Fall’s Applied Words: Performing Queerness On (& Off) the Page\, this reading and performance panel brings together three Chicago-based queer femme artists of color working across writing and performance\, who use language\, body\, and voice to reconsider and confront the limitations and possibilities of identity in diverse ways. Through three unique reading-performances and a moderated discussion\, this evening will explore the performative possibilities of writing to both materialize and transform the experiences and identities queer femme POC across a broad spectrum. \nFeaturing:\nUnoma Azuah\nAda Cheng\nAJ McClenon \nModerator:\nFelicia Holman
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/performing-identities-on-off-the-page-queer-femme-artists-of-color/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee Ave.\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190518T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190518T170000
DTSTAMP:20200107T002831Z
CREATED:20200107T002831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T002831Z
UID:5534-1558191600-1558198800@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest
DESCRIPTION:3A panel presented by\nThe Guild Literary Complex + Rebuild Foundation \nThis afternoon with Angela Jackson\, Haki Madhubuti\, and Eugene Redmond\, some of the most important Chicago-area poets working at the intersection of literary innovation and political resistance over the last 50 years\, inaugurates a new collaboration between The Guild and Rebuild Foundation that builds on the widely praised 2016 anthology of African American political art and poetry\, Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (WW Norton) co-edited by Guild Founding Executive Director Michael Warr\, who also joins in this collaboration. This program anticipates the late June installation\, on the Stony Island Arts Bank’s lawn\, of the Gazebo where Tamir Rice was murdered by the Cleveland Police. The Gazebo’s erection as a memorial will be accompanied by additional Of Poetry and Protest programming and a small exhibition co-organized by the Guild and Warr. Looking ahead\, and reflecting on the deconstructed Gazebo currently on display\, these Chicago area writers included in the anthology will gather to share work from the book and engage with Michael Warr\, the collection’s Poetry Editor\, about the histories\, traditions\, and experiences that their work draws on\, and about the role that poetry and art can play in grieving\, memorializing\, and resisting the human cost that the systems of racial violence with which we live extract. \n\n\n\n\nAbout our partner: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRebuild Foundation is a platform for art\, cultural development\, and neighborhood transformation. Its mission is to leverage the power and potential of communities\, buildings\, and objects that others have written off through innovative\, entrepreneurial arts and cultural initiatives. This work is informed by three core values: black people matter\, black spaces matter\, and black objects matter. Founded by artist Theaster Gates\, Rebuild is part of a network of sister organizations that collaborate to extend the social engagement of Gates’ studio practice to the South Side of Chicago and beyond.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/of-poetry-and-protest/
LOCATION:Stony Island Arts Bank\, 6760 S. Stony Island Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190413T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190423T200000
DTSTAMP:20200107T001503Z
CREATED:20200107T001503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T001503Z
UID:5523-1555180200-1556049600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Palabra Pura en Poesía en Abril
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-en-poesia-en-abril/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190320T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190320T190000
DTSTAMP:20200107T002622Z
CREATED:20200107T002622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T002622Z
UID:5531-1553108400-1553108400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Creative Freedom: Writing In and Out of Prison
DESCRIPTION:A reading and panel featuring formerly incarcerated writers\, and writers who teach in prisons\, sharing their work and their perspectives on writing in prison\, writing outside of prison\, and writing about prison from both inside and out. \nPresented in partnership with UChicago Arts & Public Life + Chicago Torture Justice Memorials in connection with the exhibition Still Here: Torture\, Resiliency and the Art of Memorializing. \nFeaturing:\nTara Betts\nEric Blackmon\nMichael Fischer\nReuben Taylor \nModerator:\nMike Puican
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/creative-freedom-writing-in-and-out-of-prison/
LOCATION:Green Line Performing Arts Center\, 329 E. Garfield Boulevard\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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