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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Urban Realities/Realidades urbanas
DESCRIPTION:Chicago is a complicated place\, a city where senseless acts of violence and random acts of kindness happen every day\, where some can dare to dream and others dream of escaping their nightmares. Luis Tubens and young poets from Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School will lead us in an exploration of the urban realities that affect the daily lives and future destinies of those who make Chicago their home. \nThis month’s Palabra Pura is curated by Mary Hawley. Arrive early to sign up for the open mic. \nPalabra Pura is pay-what-you-can ($5 suggested donation). Audience contributions support honorariums for the curators and featured authors. \nClick here to RSVP on Facebook. \n  \nABOUT OUR FEATURE \n \nLuis Tubens (Logan Lu) is a Chicago born Puerto Rican poet. His narrative poems depict the gritty ambiance of the inner-cityscape while describing reflective personal experiences. He draws inspiration from the urban realities of the developing Latino diaspora and from his observations of proletarian struggles. His interactive style and hyper performance invite the crowd to be active participants in his performance. \n  \nABOUT OUR CURATOR \nMary Hawley is the author of Double Tongues\, a poetry collection\, and co-translator of the bilingual poetry anthology Astillas de luz/Shards of Light\, both published by Tía Chucha Press. She works as a freelance writer\, editor\, and translator\, and has been involved for many years with the Guild Complex’s Palabra Pura bilingual reading series. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The Bloomsbury Review\, Mudlark\, contratiempo\, Notre Dame Review\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-february-2015/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: One Poet One Poem (Stories too!) 10 year anniversary kickoff party!
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the 10th season of PALABRA PURA with “One Poet / One Poem”. Don’t let the name fool you—there will be fiction stories too!2015 guest curators reveal their plans and past readers share a poem (or short story) during this annual party celebrating poetry and fiction in more than one tongue. Contributing authors include: \nEduardo Arocho | Emmanuel Ayala | Beatriz Badikian | Alex Bonner | Marta Collazo | Jan Peña Davis | Raúl Dorantes | Rafael Franco-Steeves | Stephanie Gentry-Fernández | Juana Goergen | Nora León | Mark Litwicki | Miguel López Lemus | Olivia Maciel | Elizabeth Marino | Miguel Marzana | Yolanda Nieves | Coya Paz | Mike Puican | Martha Cecilia Rivera | Luis Tubens | Febronio Zatarain | and more! \nThere will be plenty of essential liquids at the bar—and CAKE! \nThe event is free + donations are welcome! Oh\, and it’s a cash bar\, but the cake is on us. \nMore information at guildcomplex.org. \n\n Click here to RVSP/Share on Facebook.Due to the number of readers for the party\, there will be no open mic. The open mic will return in February. \n*** \nABOUT PALABRA PURA\nThe Guild’s night of poetry and community\, curated by and spotlighting Chicago’s most powerful voices in the Chicano and Latino communities. Palabra Pura takes place on the third Wednesday of every month (except August and December).
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-one-poet-one-poem-stories-too-10-year-anniversary-kickoff-party/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141201
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SUMMARY:Winter Break!
DESCRIPTION:The Guild will be dark for the month of December. We’ll be announcing 2015 programming soon…See you next year!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/winter-break/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141119T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141119T210000
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: From the Margins of the Margins
DESCRIPTION:In response to the hangover from colonialism still lingering in the United States\, a new literary space has been carved out where historically marginalized bodies\, narratives and histories finally have their say; it has been named “Latino/a literature”. What happens\, though\, when some of the loudest voices inhabiting that space reproduce the very conditions they are supposed to be subverting? Who counters the oppressed who have taken up the business of oppression? Two uprisings come to mind: Daniel Borzutzky and Justin Petropoulos. The work of these writers forces us to confront an uncomfortable but essential question: is Latino/a poetry a viable\, subversive political logic\, or is it merely a marketing strategy already co-opted and rendered ineffective in the face of capitalism? \nAn open mic is included in the event. For the Facebook event page\, click here. \nCo-sponsored by the following departments at Northwestern University: Poetry and Poetics Colloquium; the Latina/o Studies Program; the Department of Spanish & Portuguese; and the Center for the Writing Arts.\n \n  \nAbout the Artists:\n  \nDaniel Borzutzky‘s books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat\, forthcoming); The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat\, 2011); The Ecstasy of Capitulation (BlazeVox\, 2007); and Arbitrary Tales (Ravenna Press\, 2005). His poetry translations include include Raúl Zurita’s The Country of Planks (forthcoming\, Action Books); Song for his Disappeared Love (Action Books\, 2010); and Jaime Luis Huenún’s Port Trakl (Action Books\, 2008). His chapbooks include Data Bodies (Green Lantern\, 2013); Bed Time Stories for the End of the World! (Bloof Books\, forthcoming); One Size Fits All (Scantily Clad\, 2009); and Failure in the Imagination (Bronze Skull\, 2007). His writing has been anthologized in Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing; Telephone Books Anthology of English-to-English Translations of Shakespeare Sonnets; La Alteración del Silencio: Poesía Norteamericana Reciente; Malditos Latinos Malditos Sudacas: Poesia Iberoamericana Made in USA; Seriously Funny: Poems About Love\, God\, War\, Art\, Sex\, Madness\, and Everything Else; A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years; and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century. His writing has been translated into Spanish\, French\, Bulgarian\, Romanian and Turkish. His work has been recognized by grants from the PEN American Center\, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. \n  \n \nJustin Petropoulos is the author of two collections of poetry\, Eminent Domain (Marsh Hawk Press 2011)\, selected by Anne Waldman for the 2010 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and <legend>   </legend> (Jaded Ibis Press 2013)\, a collaborative work with multimedia artist\, Carla Gannis. His poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, Columbia Poetry Review\, Crab Creek Review\, Gulf Coast\, Mandorla\, Portland Review\, and Spinning Jenny. Justin is a contributing editor for Entropy magazine and the program director of an after-school program for at-risk\, elementary age children. He is also an adjunct faculty member at New Jersey City University\, where he teaches composition and creative writing. \n  \n  \nAbout the Curator:\nPaul Martinez Pompa is the author of My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press 2009) and is a recent recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. He teaches composition and poetry at Triton College and lives in the Dunning neighborhood of Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout our Co-Sponsors:\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \nThe Poetry & Poetics Colloquium is the principal forum for cross-disciplinary\, transhistorical scholarship on poetics at Northwestern University\, as well as a collection of arts initiatives that support the practice of poetry on campus and beyond. Founded in 2009\, the consortium regularly convenes a group of core faculty and graduate students who share an interest in the long and varied traditions of poetry and poetics across languages and historical eras. http://poetry.northwestern.edu \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University engages in teaching\, research\, and service activities that represent current production of knowlege about Latina/o communities in the United States. It aims at building bridges with the diverse departments that are collectively working toward ameliorating social and political inequalities of Latino Chicago by holding public events in the pertinent communities. It ultimately seeks to embrace heterogeneous identities\, socioeconomic status\, racial\, national\, and generational differences\, among others. http://www.latinostudies.northwestern.edu \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University blends a community of scholars\, whose strong research interests range across Spanish\, Latin American and Latino literatures and cultures\, and a community of instructors\, who are dedicated to teaching a strong culture-based language program. Our faculty offers a rich array of courses in Spanish\, Portuguese\, and English and serves not only Weinberg College but all Northwestern’s schools. http://www.spanish-portuguese.northwestern.edu/ \n  \nThe Center for the Writing Arts at Northwestern sponsors undergraduate creative writing and literary courses\, brings distinguished visiting writers to campus\, presents and co-sponsors university-wide public events focused on writing\, advocates for the centrality of writing in undergraduate education\, and assists the MA/MFA in Creative Writing. http://www.northwestern.edu/writing-arts
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-curated-by-paul-martinez/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:TONIC
DESCRIPTION:The Guild’s “good for you” year-end party has returned! This year\, after much celebration of our 25th anniversary\, we look forward to the future. We plan to celebrate with music\, libation\, and the best company in Chicago: YOU. \nAlso\, a very special guest will be joining us: Marcel Proust. Best known for his recollections of the past\, Mr. Proust is now a fortune-teller. And he will be on hand to cheerfully prognosticate what’s around the corner for any who seek a glimpse of the future. \nTickets include a light buffet and open bar with well drinks\, domestic beer\, and soda\, plus Maker’s Mark bourbon as long as the bottles last. There will be door prizes and—per Proust’s request—COOKIES! \nTickets are $30 in advance and $40 at the door; $5 discount for students. This event is 21+. \nAll proceeds benefit your Guild Literary Complex. Click here for tickets\, or use the “Buy tickets” button below.\n \nABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUEST \nMarcel Proust is a French novelist (born July 10\, 1871)\, best known as the author of the seven-volume novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). He is currently on tour as a fortune teller and motivational speaker. TONIC is his only Midwest stop. \n  \n  \n  \nPhotos from last year’s TONIC! \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/tonic2014/
LOCATION:Beauty Bar\, 1444 W. Chicago Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60642\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Colm Tóibín's Transatlantic Literary Worlds
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex is proud and excited to partner with the 2014 Chicago Humanities Festival to present Colm Tóibín’s Transatlantic Literary Worlds\, a live interview with the award-winning author conducted by the Guild’s Director\, John Rich. This special program also marks the celebration of two 25-year anniversaries\, both for the Guild Literary Complex and the Chicago Humanities Festival. \nTICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW. Click HERE to purchase. \nIn 2014\, the Guild has made great strides to highlight the tribulations of writers living abroad—especially those living in exile. Many of Tóibín’s works of fiction and nonfiction address themes of living abroad and the creation/preservation on personal identity in the face of cultural and geographic clashes. \nTóibín is the author of 24 books and short stories\, and in 2014 was named as a trustee to The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry\, which awards the Griffin Prize for Poetry. He is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/joint-program-with-chicago-humanities-festival/
LOCATION:Northwestern University School of Law\, Thorne Auditorium\, 375 East Chicago Avenue\, Chicago \, 60611\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141022T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141022T213000
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SUMMARY:Annual Prose Awards Reading and Recognition Event
DESCRIPTION:UPDATED: ANNOUNCING THE 2014 PROSE AWARD WINNERS! \nKate Duva\, winner of the 2014 Prose Award in Fiction\nElora de Grey\, winner of the 2014 Prose Award in Non-Fiction \nThe Guild Literary Complex supports divergent and emerging literary voices with our Annual Prose Awards. Every fall we recognize outstanding short fiction and non-fiction from across the State of Illinois and award $500 cash prizes to one outstanding writer in each category. \nWe congratulate the winners and all the finalists. Bios of all artists are below. \nNON-FICTION FINALISTS \nSuman Chhabra for “Upon the Ground”\nElora Roslin de Grey for “The Bluejay”\nDana Norris for “The Fog” \nFICTION FINALISTS \nKate Duva for “Horizontal”\nScott Onak for “The Final Problem”\nAnne K. Yoder for “Just Another Love Story” \n/// \n[original event information] \nPlease join us on October 22\, 7:30 pm\, at the Chopin Theatre\, located at 1543 W. Division Street\, as we celebrate the authors at a special reading and award event featuring all six finalists. \nEach finalist will read their entry and be recognized at this event at the historic Chopin Theatre where we also announce the $500 cash-prize winners in each category! \nWith special musical guest Cameron McGill. \nGeneral admission is $8\, and students get in for $6. \nSpecial thanks to our 2014 judges\, Janet Burroway (fiction) and Donna Seaman (non-fiction). \n  \nABOUT THE FINALISTS \nSuman Chhabra writes. She graduated from the University of Michigan where she studied Political Science and South Asian Languages & Cultures. Chhabra has taught in diverse environments including the slums of India\, Cranbrook Educational Community and as a Teach For America corps member. She is now an MFA candidate in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \nKate Duva is a writer\, performer\, community organizer and play therapist from Chicago. She is currently working on a historical novel about a burlesque dancer from the Dust Bowl who strikes up an unlikely friendship with an autistic savant. Find links to her other published works online at www.kateduva.com. \n  \nElora de Grey is an artist and writer. When she is not writing about things made up or recollected\, she can be found doing research or building work in her studio in West Loop\, Chicago. Her current projects include a collection of short stories\, a script\, and two new series of paintings. Select works can be seen at http://elledegrey.com. \n  \n  \nDana Norris is the founder of Story Club\, a nonfiction storytelling show held in Chicago\, Boston\, and Minneapolis. She is the editor-in-chief of Story Club Magazine and she teaches at StoryStudio Chicago. She has been published in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, The Rumpus\, the Tampa Review\, and her stories have been featured on WBEZ (91.5 FM) and Vocalo.org (89.5 FM).  You may see her upcoming performance schedule at dananorris.net. \n  \n  \nScott Onak received his MFA in fiction from the University of Idaho. His stories have been published in Mid-American Review and Willow Springs\, and his book reviews appear on The Rumpus. He teaches creative writing at StoryStudio Chicago and the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Studies. He has been a resident at the Ragdale Foundation and is currently working on a novel. \n  \n  \nAnne K. Yoder’s fiction\, essays\, and criticism have been published Fence\, Bomb\, and Tin House\, among other publications. She is a staff writer for The Millions\, co-editrix of Projecttile\, a journal of nontraditional writing with a feminist bent\, and a member of Meekling Press. She lives in Chicago\, where she’s at work on a novel. \n  \n  \nABOUT OUR MUSICAL GUEST \nCameron McGill is a songwriter who lives in Chicago\, IL. His sixth full-length album\, Gallows Etiquette\, was released on October 15\, 2013. Over the past ten years he has released the following recordings: Gallows Etiquette (2013); Is A Beast (2011); Deserters EP (2010); Two Hits and a Miss EP (2009\, on Parasol Records); Warm Songs for Cold Shoulders (2009\, on Parasol Records); Hold On Beauty (2008); Street Ballads & Murderesques (2006); Stories of The Knife and The Back (2004). Find more info at cameronmcgill.com.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/annual-prose-awards-reading-and-recognition-event/
LOCATION:Chopin Theatre\, 1543 West Division Street\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141015T193000
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Want
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Cyn Vargas\, the theme of this month’s Palabra Pura is Want. Cyn writes\, “Want. It could be a person\, thing\, words we long to hear\, a new place. Want is at the core of what we do and say. It drives us or it stuns us. The stories this night will be about narrators wanting something or someone and what they do to try and get it. What happens if they don’t? What happens if they do? We’ve all been there\, so come join us for a night of fictional stories where the want is very real.” \n  \nAbout the Artists\nBobby Biedrzycki is a writer\, performer\, educator\, and transnational human rights activist who resides in Chicago\, IL. His stories\, poems\, and performances have appeared on pages\, stages\, and public spaces across the U.S. and beyond. His work is rooted in cross-disciplinary collaborations that focus on creating social change. Bobby is the Curriculum and Instruction Associate in the Department of Education and Community Engagement at the Goodman Theatre\, a company member of 2nd Story\, and is faculty at Columbia College Chicago\, where he was the 2013 recipient of the Excellence-in-Teaching Award. Bobby is also deeply committed to collaborating with youth artists working to change the world\, and is @bobbyfloats on all forms of social media. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAdriana Galvan is a native of Northwest Indiana\, Adriana Galvan is a first generation Mexican-American writer who enjoys the art of creating and exploring. Her passion for storytelling began at a young age when she would listen to her late grandmother share stories about growing up in Northern Mexico and later immigrating to Gary\, Indiana. Over the years\, this oral tradition grew into Adriana’s writing and takes root in her short stories. She currently lives in Chicago and is working on her first novel\, “In a Distant Dream.” \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nKevin Kane is an MFA candidate in Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He served as managing editor for The Handshake Magazine from March 2011 to November 2012; managing editor for the Spring 2012 issue of fictionary\, an editor for the 2012 Story Week Reader\, and editor for the 2012 Story Week special edition of fictionary. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Hair Trigger\, Story Week Reader\, and Word Riot. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Curator\nCyn Vargas‘ short story collection is being published by Curbside Splendor Publishing and set to be released in spring 2015. She is the winner of the 2013 Guild Literary Complex Prose Award for Fiction\, received a Top 25 Finalist & an Honorable Mention award in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers contests\, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing- Fiction from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has appeared in Word Riot\, Split Lip Magazine\, Hypertext Magazine\, and elsewhere. She writes because it’s her way of legally exposing herself in public. www.cynvargas.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-curated-by-cyn-vargas/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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SUMMARY:I Come To Your Country\, Name Me: Asian/American Author Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The Guild and the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will present three Asian authors on Wednesday\, September 24. In conjunction with the University of Illinois–Chicago’s Kriti Festival—a celebration of South Asian and Asian Diaspora Arts and Literature in Chicago—we present Rachel DeWoskin\, Mary Anne Mohanraj\, and Deepak Unnikrishnaan. \nDipika Mukherjee\, Curator\, states: “‘I Come To Your Country\, Name Me'” will be a creative exploration of Expatriation and Migration in the Asian diaspora. Asia has many communities and languages and cultures\, so we will speak in anecdotes instead of reductive generalities. Rachel DeWoskin will read from her life as the megastar of a Chinese soap opera in Beijing\, then read from her new book based in Shanghai. Mary Anne Mohanraj\, in her memoir\, discusses bisexuality\, taboos and going home to a discontented Sri Lanka which is no longer home. Deepak’s writing is grounded in Abu Dhabi where he grew up as the son of Indian expatriates\, but home has been America for more than a decade. All three readers live and work in Chicago.” \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nRachel DeWoskin’s fourth book\, the critically acclaimed Blind\, was published by Penguin in August 2014. Her novel Big Girl Small (FSG 2011) received the 2012 American Library Association’s Alex Award and was named one of the top 3 books of 2011 by Newsday. DeWoskin’s memoir\, Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton 2005) about the years she spent in China as the unlikely star of a Chinese soap opera\, has been published in six countries\, optioned first by Paramount for a feature film and then by HBO to be developed into a television series\, for which DeWoskin co-wrote the pilot episode. Her debut novel Repeat After Me (The Overlook Press\, 2009)\, which follows the unexpected romance between a young American teacher and her Chinese student\, won a Foreward Magazine Book of the Year Award. She has written essays and articles for Vanity Fair\, The Sunday Times Magazine of London\, Teachers and Writers\, and anthologies including Found: Requiem for a Paper Bag\, and Wanderlust. Her poems have appeared in journals including Ploughshares\, Seneca Review\, New Delta Review\, Nerve Magazine and The New Orleans Review. She teaches fiction and memoir at the University of Chicago. \n  \nMary Anne Mohanraj is author of Bodies in Motion (HarperCollins)\, The Stars Change (Circlet Press) and ten other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards\, a USA Today Notable Book\, and has been translated into six languages.  The Stars Change is a Lambda-award-finalist science fiction novella.  Previous titles include Aqua Erotica and Wet (two erotica anthologies edited for Random House)\,Kathryn in the City and The Classics Professor (two erotic choose-your-own-adventure novels\, Penguin)\, The Best of Strange Horizons\, the collection\, Without a Map\, Aqueduct Press\, co-authored with Nnedi Okorafor\, The Poet’s Journey (picture book)\, and A Taste of Serendib (a Sri Lankan cookbook). \nMohanraj founded the Hugo-nominated magazine\, Strange Horizons\, and serves as editor-in-chief of Jaggery\, a South Asian literary journal (jaggerylit.com). She was Guest of Honor at WisCon 2010\, will be Guest of Honor at Maneki Neko Con\, received a Breaking Barriers Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women for her work in Asian American arts organizing\, and won an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose.  She serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (www.desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (www.speclit.org)\, and directs the Kriti Festival of South Asian arts and literature (kritifestival.org). Mohanraj has taught at the Clarion SF/F workshop\, and is Clinical Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \n  \nDeepak Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu Dhabi. His first set of short stories\, Coffee Stains in a Camel’s Teacup was published by Vijitha Yapa Publications (Colombo\, Sri Lanka). His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Drunken Boat\, Himal Southasian\, Bound Off\, The State Vol IV: Dubai\, the art project  Autopoiesis (www.autopoiesis.io)\, and in the anthology Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana (Zubaan Books\, India). He has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, where on scholarship he completed the manuscript for his first work of fiction set in the Gulf\,  excerpts from which are forthcoming in Guernica. He is the winner of the 2014 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. \n\n  \n  \nABOUT THE CURATOR\n \n  \nDipika Mukherjee is a writer and sociolinguist. Her debut novel\, Thunder Demons (Gyaana 2011)\, was long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. She lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT OUR PARTNERS\n \n  \nKriti is the Hindi word for “creation\,” and Chicago’s Kriti Festival was launched in 2005 to celebrate South Asian and diaspora literature and arts. In 2005\, 2007\, and 2009\, more than thirty writers\, artists\, performers\, editors\, and agents came to Chicago to share their work with the general public\, through panel discussions\, readings\, theatrical\, music\, and dance performances\, workshops\, and more. \nThe festival returns in September 2014\, and will be hosted at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, co-sponsored by the English Department\, the Asian Studies Program\, and the Asian American Studies Program. \n  \n \n  \nThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Writing program is for writers of all genres—fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and playwriting—as well as for writers and artists who work with both image and text. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/forged-identities-i-come-to-your-country-name-me-asian-author-reading-series/
LOCATION:SAIC\, LeRoy Neiman Center\, 37 S Wabash Ave\, 1st floor\, Chicago\, 60602\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140917T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Calling Home
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly bilingual reading series in September features Ana Castillo and Paul Martinez Pompa and is curated by Cristina Correa. The event is hosted and co-presented by the Poetry Foundation. \nStates Correa\, “Across generations\, Latino writers and their constellation of experiences and creative identities have found a home in Chicago. For many\, home is a constant migration between places and memories. For others\, home is a space in which their productions are collected and honored: museums\, bookcases\, stages. Home is often a multi-faceted location\, both physical and spiritual\, that occurs when we can recognize ourselves in it. It is a place that facilitates growth and exchange. As a powerhouse of intellectual honesty in fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, Chicago-born and raised Ana Castillo provides the illuminating force for this conversation with home. Her fearless cultural and linguistic presence has provided a source of home for other writers interested in maintaining honest and critical dialogue with the places they come from.” \nAbout the Artists:\nAna Castillo is a celebrated poet\, novelist\, short story writer\, essayist\, editor\, playwright\, translator and independent scholar. Castillo was born and raised in Chicago. She has contributed to periodicals and on-line venues (Salon and Oxygen) and national magazines\, includingMore and the Sunday New York Times. Castillo’s writings have been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations and publications. Among her award winning\, best sellling titles: novels include So Far From God\, The Guardians and Peel My Love like an Onion\, among other poetry: I Ask the Impossible. Her novel\, Sapogonia was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has been profiled and interviewed on National Public Radio and the History Channel and was a radio-essayist with NPR in Chicago. Ana Castillo is editor of La Tolteca\, an arts and literary ‘zine dedicated to the advancement of a world without borders and censorship and on the advisory board of the new American Writers Museum in D.C. Castillo held the first Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Endowed Chair at DePaul University\, The Martin Luther King\, Jr Distinguished Visiting Scholar post at M.I.T. and was the Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College in Utah in 2012\, among other teaching posts throughout her extensive career. Ana Castillo holds an M.A from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D.\, University of Bremen\, Germany in American Studies and an honorary doctorate from Colby College. She received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her first novel\, The Mixquiahuala Letters. Her other awards include a Carl Sandburg Award\, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry. She was also awarded a 1998 Sor Juana Achievement Award by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago. Dr. Castillo’s So Far From God and Loverboys are two titles on the banned book list controversy with the TUSD in Arizona. 2013 Recipient of the American Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Prize to an independent scholar. Dr. Castillo will hold the Lund-Gil Endowed Chair at Dominican University (IL) in 2014. \n  \n  \nPaul Martinez Pompa is the author of My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press 2009) and is a recent recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. He teaches composition and poetry at Triton College and lives in Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Curator:\nCristina Correa is a VONA/Voices writer and a Midwestern Voices and Visions awardee. Her work has recently been published in TriQuarterly\, broadcast on National Public Radio’s Latino USA\, and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. She is an MA candidate in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Our Co-Presenter:\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Poetry Foundation\, publisher of Poetry magazine\, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-curated-by-cristina-correa/
LOCATION:Poetry Foundation\, 61 West Superior Street
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140922
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
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SUMMARY:Dispatches from Kapittel
DESCRIPTION:The Guild is sending six Chicago writers to the Kapittel International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech in Stavenger\, Norway as a part of our ongoing work with writers living in exile and advocating for freedom of speech. \nOur six attendees are blogging on their experiences at GuildDispatches.tumblr.com. \nAbout the Attendees:\nAdam Gottlieb is a poet/teaching-artist from Chicago. He got into spoken word at age 14 via the Young Chicago Authors teen poetry slam festival Louder Than a Bomb\, and was featured in the documentary film by the same name. He recently graduated from Hampshire College\, where he studied poetry and critical pedagogy. He seeks to promote the use of poetry as a medium for dialogue\, self-expression\, and positive social change. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nL’Oréal Patrice Jackson is an artist rooted in theatre\, music\, movement and writing. As an arts educator she teaches theatre performance\, improvisation\, storytelling\, and multi-disciplinary art. She has worked with Steppenwolf\, Writers Theatre\, and Columbia College Chicago\, among others. She serves as a youth leader for Soka Gakkai International (SGI)\, a lay Buddhist organization dedicated to peace culture and education. She is the Education Associate at About Face Theatre\, a production company with a focus on lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, queer\, and ally arts. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSahar Mustafah writes about “the others”—Arabs in the United States and abroad—who are often deemed strange and disparate from the larger racial community. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals including Great Lakes Review\, Word Riot\, Flyleaf\, Hair Trigger\, and Chicago Literati\, and she’s performed with 2nd Story Chicago. She’s the recipient of a Pushcart nomination. She is a teacher and co-founder of Bird’s Thumb\, an online literary journal devoted to new and emerging voices. She received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nErika L. Sánchez is a Fulbright Scholar\, CantoMundo Fellow\, and winner of the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Pleiades\, Witness\, Anti-\, Hunger Mountain\, Crab Orchard Review\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Copper Nickel\, Boston Review\, “Latino USA” on NPR\, and is forthcoming in diode and Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation (Penguin 2015). Her nonfiction appears in The Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, Rolling Stone\, Salon\, NBC News\, Cosmopolitan\, and many others. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nM. Quinn Stifler received a B.A. in Creative Writing and Women’s & Gender Studies at DePaul University. Stifler has worked with Threshold\, DePaul’s student-run literature and arts journal\, and is a co-founder and editor of No Assholes Literary Magazine. Stifler was a finalist for the 2013 Gwendolyn Brooks Open-Mic Poetry Award\, and regularly participates in and organizes house readings around Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n John Rich is the Director of Guild Literary Complex\, a cross-cultural presenting organization in Chicago celebrating 25 years of supporting diverse\, divergent\, and emerging voices. John is a founding member of Chicago Writers House and Chicago Book Expo. He earned an MFA in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, where he taught writing and creativity for several years. He is a recipient of the Vaclav Havel Fellowship in Playwriting from Western Michigan University and a Ragdale Foundation residency in writing. He co-founded the collaborative theater group Attention Deficit Drama (1997-2003) and has performed with Every House Has a Door. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/dispatches-from-kapittel/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140913T220000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
CREATED:20140626T151748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140910T205521Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release [&DANCE!] Party: Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Happy birthday\, Quraysh!\nAnd\, happy book release to Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart\, whose newest book\, The Walmart Republic\, will be launched this fall. \nTo celebrate in style (as the Guild always does)\, we will be hosting a birthday and book launch on Saturday\, September 13\, 2014 at the University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse (9th floor) from 7:00–10:00 p.m. \nThe evening will feature Angela Jackson and Elise Paschen\, as well as performances by avery r. young\, In The Spirit\, and Team REBIRTH; and readings from The Walmart Republic by Ali Lansana and Stewart—all hosted by Mario Smith. Books will be for sale by Women and Children First. \nVocalo DJ Ayana Contreras will facilitate dancing and good times\, with (all kinds of spectacular) beverages donated by Tastings.com. Attendees can also anticipate snacks and cake. \nThis event is co-presented with the Logan Center for the Arts and Mongrel Empire Press; and is sponsored in part by the Chicago Center for Working Class Studies. \nBooks can be purchased at the event thanks to our friends at Women & Children First. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nQuraysh Ali Lansana is author of eight poetry books\, three textbooks\, a children’s book\, editor of eight anthologies\, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute and the Red Earth MFA Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma City University. He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2011\, where he was also Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry\, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers & Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. His most recent books include The Walmart Republic w/ Christopher Stewart (Mongrel Empire Press\, September 2014) and reluctant minivan (Living Arts Press\, May 2014). \n  \nChristopher Stewart’s poetry has appeared in numerous poetry journals and the anthology\, Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex. His collaborations with music artists include his work with the group Circadian Rhythm\, which was featured on the audio anthology\, A Snake in the Heart: Poems and Music by Chicago Spoken Word Performers. He is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SPECIAL GUESTS\n \nAyana Contreras is passionate about sound and color. She currently hosts and produces a show called “Reclaimed Soul” on Vocalo 91.1 fm (a sister station of WBEZ). Ayana additionally produces “The Barber Shop Show”\, a community affairs show that broadcasts live from a Barber Shop in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. She’s also a DJ and music historian. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAngela Jackson earned a BA at Northwestern University\, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize\, and an MA in Latin American and Caribbean studies at the University of Chicago. In Chicago\, she became a prominent member of the Organization of Black American Culture. Jackson’s honors include a Pushcart Prize\, TriQuarterly’s Daniel Curley Award\, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award\, and grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Jackson lives in Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \nElise Paschen is the author of Bestiary (Red Hen Press\, 2009); Infidelities (Story Line Press)\, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize\, and Houses: Coasts (Oxford: Sycamore Press). She is editor of The New York Times best-selling anthology Poetry Speaks to Children and Poetry Speaks Who I Am (Sourcebooks) as well as co-editor of Poetry Speaks\, among others. The Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America from 1988 until 2001\, she is the co-founder of Poetry in Motion\, a nation-wide program which places poetry posters in subways and buses. Paschen was the featured Illinois poet at the National Book Festival sponsored by the Library of Congress in September 2006. She currently serves as Poet Laureate of Three Oaks\, Michigan. A former Frances Allen Fellow of the Newberry Library\, Dr. Paschen teaches in the MFA Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \nMario Smith (emcee)is a Chicago poet\, educator\, activist and radio chat show host. Mario has performed his poetry in the Chicagoland area and the US for over twenty years\, including Steppenwolf Theater\, MCA Chicago\, Old Town School of Folk Music\, the Chicago Cultural Center\, and many more. He has written essays for Chicago’s public radio affiliate WBEZ\, appeared on Voice of America\, and provided Election Night 2008 analysis for BBC Devon. He currently hosts News From the Service Entrance on WHPK 88.5FM. \n  \n  \n  \n  \navery r. young is a writer\, performer and teaching artist. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and his works have been published in AIMPrint\, Callaloo\, Spaces Between Us and many other anthologies and periodicals. He is also featured on Urban Audiology: The Art of Audio Truism and other compilations. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nChicago-based storytelling Performance Duo In the Spirit combine the talents of storyteller\, Emily Lansana and vocalist\, Zahra Baker to weave story & song into soulful engaging performance. Emily and Zahra share the belief that creative expression can be a positive force of change. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTeam REBIRTH a poetry ensemble of high-school-age Chicago teens\, were featured in the 2014 ‘Louder Than A Bomb’\, Individual and Team Competition. \n  \nOUR SPONSORS AND CO-PRESENTERS\n  \n  \n \n  \nThe Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts advances arts practice\, inquiry\, and presentation at the University of Chicago\, and fosters meaningful collaboration and cultural engagement at the university\, on the south side\, and in the city of Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMongrel Empire Press was established in 2007 with a mission to publish well-written\, thoughtfully-considered works across generic and disciplinary boundaries. \nMongrel Empire Press chose its moniker because it celebrates the place—Oklahoma—where the press resides. Oklahoma and Oklahomans are glorious admixtures: the land\, the flora and fauna (as evidenced by the Crosstimbers)\, and the people are advantageously heterogenous. Our mongrel nation is not perfect\, but they believe that its myriad possibilities point the way to a sustainable and humane future. They will honor their commitment to Oklahoma by actively searching out great writing by Oklahomans. \n  \n  \n  \nThe mission of the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies (CCWCS) is to bring together individuals from multiple institutions to promote economic justice and to address class relationships.  CCWCS’ participants are guided by their commitment to “make class visible” and to strengthen the political\, economic and moral power of working women and men. The Center is administered by the School of Labor and Employment Relations of the University of Illinois\, and its steering committee includes faculty from seven Chicago-area universities. \n  \n  \nA popular and free website from the Beverage Tasting Institute. The Beverage Testing Institute was founded in 1981 with the objective of producing fair and impartial wine reviews for consumers. Today\, this philosophy still holds true. Over the years\, their buying guides have appeared in the Wine Enthusiast\, Restaurant Hospitality\, The New Yorker Magazine\, Wine & Spirits\, International Wine Review\, Epicurious.com\, All About Beer\, and many others. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/book-release-quraysh-ali-lansana-and-christopher-stewart/
LOCATION:Logan Arts Center\, 915 E 60th St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140802
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
CREATED:20140626T151629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140716T172542Z
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SUMMARY:The Guild Goes Dark
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be taking some time away to regroup through the month of August after a fruitful spring and summer. Keep an eye out for our Fall Preview\, which will contain information on programming and events for the fall 2014!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/the-guild-goes-dark/
LOCATION:IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140723T213000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
CREATED:20140619T191818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140729T165502Z
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SUMMARY:Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Reading & Award
DESCRIPTION:Writers across Illinois submitted their poems to the Guild for the 21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award between June 7 and June 30\, 2014. 20 of those poems were selected to be presented on July 23\, where each author will read their poem to an audience who will then vote on the winner of a $500 prize. \nSpecial appearance by Nora Brooks Blakely\, and a performance by Aurora Performance Group. Marian Hayes\, poet\, will also read her work “The Blues”\, which won her the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award 20 years ago. \nThis years semifinalists are: \nFatimah Asghar\, Chirskira Caillouet\, Miles Clark\, Olivia Cole\, Livia Regina Harkow\, Andy Karol\, Samy Lang\, Ele Matelan\, Cameron McGill\, Sharon L. Powell\, Kelly Reuter Raymundo\, Charles “Charley” Reynard\, Irene Savine\, Rachel Lena Slotnick\, Mojdeh Stoakley\, Deepak Unnikrishnan\, Jacob Victorine\, Erin Watson\, Dylan James Weir\, and Jamila Woods. \nJoin us at the Chopin Theater to celebrate these 20 semifinalists\, hear some fantastic poetry out loud\, and decide who is going to be the 2014 winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. \nPast winners include Sename Amagashie\, Lucy Anderton\, Tara Betts\, C.C. Carter\, Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez\, Marian Hayes\, Tricia Hersey\, Tyehimba Jess\, Langston Kerman\, Toni Asante Lightfoot\, Nate Marshall\, Sage Morgan-Hubbard\, Stephanie Rose Perez\, Tristan Silverman\, Dan “Sully” Sullivan\, and Mark Turcotte\, among others. \nTickets are $8 adults / $6 students and seniors. \nAbout the Emcee\nToni Asante Lightfoot has been living in Chicago since 2002. She’s worked with the Guild Complex\, Neighborhood Writing Alliance\, ETA Theater\, and Young Chicago Authors where she is currently the Director of Writing Workshops. Lightfoot is a Cave Canem fellow and spent 2 years as a Soul Mountain fellow held in the retreat home of Marilyn Nelson\, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut. Lightfoot’s poetry and reviews can be found in numerous anthologies\, journals\, and online. She is married with a lovely daughter who inspires Lightfoot to laugh\, write\, and dance.  \n  \n  \nAbout the Performers\n \nMarian Hayes has been a poet in Chicago for decades. She has done what the late great Gwendolyn Brooks encouraged all poets to do; take their poetry to all walks of life; tavern\, campuses\, schools\, highways and by ways. She is presently working on a series of Blues haiku poems. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAurora Performance Group is a musical group based in Chicago\, IL. Assembled by the daughter of Gwendolyn Brooks\, Nora Brooks Blakely\, APG performs in honor of Mrs. Brooks’ tremendous legacy. \n  \nAbout the Preliminary Judge\n \nJ.W. Basilo is a writer\, performer\, comedian\, and educator from Chicago. He is a National and World Poetry Slam finalist\, a PushCart Prize Nominee\, Executive Director of Chicago Slam Works\, one half of Poetry/Comedy duo Beard Fight\, and a company member with Red Theater Chicago. His work has appeared on NPR\, CNN\, CBS\, WGN\, in the Chicago Tribune\, and in hundreds of live venues. Currently\, you can catch him every Sunday in Chicago at the Green Mill\, where he co-hosts The Uptown Poetry Slam\, and Mondays at Haymarket Pub & Brewery\, where he serves as curator and host of The LitMash. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCO-SPONSORED BY: \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for the Study of Race\, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago was established in 1994 under the direction of Professor Michael Dawson. From its inception\, faculty\, students\, and staff who have been involved with the Center have been committed to establishing a new type of research institute devoted to the study of race and ethnicity\, one that seeks to expand the study of race beyond the black/white paradigm while exploring social and identity cleavages within racialized communities.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gwendolyn-brooks-open-mic-reading-award/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140716T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140716T213000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
CREATED:20140428T161815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140715T165756Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:Lost & Found: Letters\, Poems\, and Marginalia of Cross Cultural Experience \nThis evening\, Palabra Pura will travel to Mexico City\, Korea\, and Haiti via our writers to explore the Cross Cultural Experiences of a Dancer\, an Educator\, and a Poet. Curated by Maribel Mares. \nAbout the Artists\n \n  \nDarren Angle is a poet living in Chicago. His work has appeared in LIT and BOMB. He received degrees from Macalester College and Brown University\, where he won a Weston Fine Arts Award and was an Adele K. Seaver Fellow in Creative Writing. Darren will share poetry inspired by his time in Haiti along with a slideshow of photos. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nMayra Jimenez is a Mexican-American Educator living in Korea; a world traveler\, a connoisseur of cultures and human behavior; She is an educator as well as student striving for social justice. A collector of the five senses\, she loves cooking\, writing\, film\, and exploring the natural world. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nYesika Perez was born and raised in the Mexico City (Tenochtitlan). She began dancing the age of 5 years; she studied Dance at the National Institute of Fine arts (INBA) in Mexico City.  She is the owner of her own business in Chicago. Amongst other things\, she was bartender\, street sweeper\, and a vendor in a street market. A proud single mother\, a free spirit\, she acts as a stabilizer of emotions\, a healer to friends\, family\, and anyone she encounters! We find her this night in Chicago\, lost and found in her circling root system.  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Curator\nMaribel Mares is an author\, educator\, and organizer. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a founding member of the Division Collective\, a salon series featuring emerging writers\, artists\, musicians\, architects\, designers\, and thinkers. She is also the co-creator of Kid City Chicago. She is a Latina Writer from the Southwest side of Chicago\, exploring the cultural and regional identity of Mexican American families.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-curated-by-maribel-mares/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140629T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140629T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
CREATED:20140604T180841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140630T142351Z
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SUMMARY:Equanimity: Writing and Exile
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Victory Gardens\nModerated by John Rich\, Executive Director of the Guild Literary Complex \nBeing forced to leave one’s homeland can leave one with a sense of loss\, trauma\, and confusion. But for many writers\, exile and political writing can also be a source of creativity and a way to reconnect with a life that seems increasingly distant. Join John Rich as he opens a dialogue with writers exploring first-hand narratives of exile and political activism in their creative works. \nAbout the Panelists\nOsama Alomar is an award-winning Syrian poet and essayist. “He belongs at once to several different important literary traditions. Most immediately evident are two: that of the writer driven into exile from his own country and culture; and that of the writer of very short stories.” –Lydia Davis\, The New Yorker (2013) \nMatilde de la Sierra\, a Guatemalan physician who practiced in a village that was home to Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan population. She was the only medical doctor in the region and – together with the Catholic church – she advocated to build a hospital on land that was used for military training. This put her in conflict with the Guatemalan military. Matilde was abducted and tortured and\, more than a decade later\, still suffers severe effects on her health\, memory\, and flashbacks. \nCoya Paz is a poet\, director\, and lip gloss connoisseur who was raised in Peru\, Bolivia\, Colombia\, Ecuador\, and Brazil before moving permanently to the United States in 1987. Coya is the Artistic Director of Free Street Theatre\, and an Assistant Professor in the Theatre School at DePaul University.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/equanimity-writing-and-exile/
LOCATION:Victory Gardens Biograph Theater\, 2433 North Lincoln Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60614\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140628T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140628T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
CREATED:20140618T163007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140619T173740Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura at Printers Ball!
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex is joining dozens of other presenters for the Tenth Annual Printers Ball\, taking place on June 28. This year\, the Guild will be presenting a flashmob-style Palabra Pura\, featuring \nCyn Vargas \nEduardo Arocho \nMike “Open Mike” Puican \nThese poets will read around 5:30 p.m.\, but we encourage you to come early and check out some of amazing organizations\, including: Artificial Ear\, Brain Frame\, Chicago Zine Fest\, Dollhouse Reading Series\, Itzi Nallah\, Leah Mackin\, Next Objectivists\, No Coast\, Pixiehammer Press\, Puphouse\, Salonathon\, the Spudnik Press Fellows\, Taylor Hokanson\, The Starshaped Press Bike\, The Swell\, Trubble Club\, Urban Sandbox\, Young Chicago Artists\, and more! \nCheck out the facebook page here. \nPrinters Ball is a celebration of literary and printmaking culture in Chicago. Join us for a summer afternoon and evening with hundreds of your fellow Chicago bookworms. RSVP now at http://printersball.com/
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-at-printers-ball/
LOCATION:Spudnik Press\, 1821 West Hubbard St\, Chicago\, 60622\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140618T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140618T213000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
CREATED:20140425T165907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140604T144335Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura\, Curated by Diana Pando
DESCRIPTION:Discover two emerging Chicago poets whose palabras unearth a rich excavation of their Mexican roots. Pulling from these raices they explore gender\, geography\, and guns that eventually collide onto the page to create border-crossing poetry that migrates between Chicago and Guanajuato\, Mexico. \nAbout the Artists\nJennifer Patiño was born on the Southwest Side of Chicago and grew up eating off dinnerware her family resourcefully “collected” from Midway airport. Her family is from the state of Guanajuato\, land of the pansas verdes and Jose Alfredo Jimenez caminos. She followed her own caminos as a kid\, playing on train tracks and somehow miraculously never died. Instead\, she graduated from Columbia College with a bachelors degree in Art History\, minors in Latino/Hispanic Studies and Poetry and lots of debt. So much debt. She has written articles\, sex columns and rants for Gozamos\, published in the South Loop Review\, and in Sixty Inches From Center\, an arts nonprofit dedicated to archiving and documenting artwork happening outside of Chicago’s mainstream art institutions.  She became a member of the Directorial Board of Sixty Inches From Center in 2012. Patiño is a poet\, essayist\, arts lover\, columnist\, and feminista\, who is passionate about mental health issues\, human rights\, literacy\, and the power that comes from knowing your history. She loves watching Scandal\, playing chess with life size pieces\, and watching terrible movies. \n  \n  \nBeatriz J. Ruiz is from both Chicago and Guanajuato and neither at the same time.  She adores reading for Palabra Pura and her work has recently appeared in Cantologia 1: Amor (Pandora/Lobo Estepario Press) and Triquarterly.  No es monedita de oro pero si es poeta\, hocicona y cabrona.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Curator\nDiana Pando is a writer from Chicago who loves telling stories. She recently published her poem Mythology of Flesh and Turquoise Serpents in the Offerings of Flesh Anthology by Mujeres de Maiz (2014 – California). Currently\, she is a co-founder of the Chicago Latino Writers Initiative and a founding member of Proyecto Latina. She  also teaches her signature writing workshop Puro Cuento and is part of the Con Tinta literary advisory boards. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-curated-by-diana-pando/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: Black Vernacular
DESCRIPTION:Black Vernacular: a comedic literary look at a language that’s all American\nJoin the Guild Literary Complex and the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator as Randall Horton\, Adam Moshe Levin\, and Toni Asante Lightfoot perform and read work demonstrating the sticky wicket of Black Vernacular. Short video performances by Holly Bass and others will be included.\n\nAbout the Artists\nKristiana Rae Colón began acting in storefront theater right out of high school. She is also a playwright\, a published poet and a hip-hop artist. She has a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works full time for a nonprofit organization located at the Juvenile Intervention Support Center at 39th Street and California Avenue (“which is essentially the juvenile police station”)\, where she is the office manager. She is the author of Promised Instruments.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRandall Horton is a former recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. He is the author of the poetry collectionsThe Lingua Franca of Ninth Street\, and The Definition of Place\, both from Main Street Rag. Horton is co-editor of the anthology Fingernails Across the Chalkboard Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDs from the Black Diaspora (Third World Press\, 2007). Horton has a MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry from Chicago State University and a PhD in Creative Writing from SUNY Albany. He is a Cave Canem Fellow. Most recently his poems\, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in: Mythium\, Mosaic\, Black Renaissance\, Crab Orchard Review and Full Moon on K Street: Poems about Washington\, DC. Horton is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Haven\, the poetry editor of Willow Books\, and the Editor-in-Chief at Tidal Basin Review. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nAdam Levin (Defcee) is a published poet\, rapper\, and teaching artist from River Forest\, IL. A graduate and founding member of the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community at the University of Wisconsin\, he has shared the stage with Saul Williams\, Amiri Baraka\, Wale\, and the Cool Kids. He has performed internationally in London\, UK\, Mexico City\, Mexico\, and Panama City\, Panama. He has been published in the University of Pennsylvania’s Esu Review\, and has released three hip-hop albums. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nToni Asante Lightfoot has been living in Chicago since 2002. She’s worked with the Guild Complex\, Neighborhood Writing Alliance\, ETA Theater\, and Young Chicago Authors where she is currently the Director of Writing Workshops. Lightfoot is a Cave Canem fellow and spent 2 years as a Soul Mountain fellow held in the retreat home of Marilyn Nelson\, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut. Lightfoot’s poetry and reviews can be found in numerous anthologies\, journals\, and online. She is married with a lovely daughter who inspires Lightfoot to laugh\, write\, and dance. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Performer\nHolly Bass is a multidisciplinary performance and visual artist\, writer and director. Her best known body of work explores the endless allure of the black female body—from Venus Hottentots to video vixens. Her work has been presented at spaces such as the Kennedy Center\, the Smithsonian Museums\, the Seattle Art Museum\, and the South African State Theatre. \nIn 2011\, she was named one of the “Top 30 Black Performance Poets” byThe Root. She was voted 2012 Best Performance Artist in the Washington CityPaper. She has received numerous grants from the DC Arts Commission and was one of twenty artists nationwide to receive Future Aesthetics grant from the Ford Foundation/Hip Hop Theater Festival. In 2014\, she will pilot a year-round creative writing and performance program for adjudicated youth in DC’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-black-vernacular/
LOCATION:Arts Incubator\, 301 E Garfield Blvd\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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SUMMARY:Readings at Printers Row Lit Fest
DESCRIPTION:The Guild will be presenting hour-long readings by seven prominent Chicago literary organizations throughout the day at Printers Row Lit Festival. You can find our tent at the corner of Dearborn and Polk Streets. \nSchedule\n10 a.m. Chicago Latino Writers Initiative: Ericka McCarthy Sanchez\, Adriana Galvan\, Awilda Rodriguez\, Diana Pando\, Jen Vera\, Veronica Vidal\, Jazmin Corona\, Stephanie Diaz Reppen \nThe Chicago Latino Writers Initiative will spotlight some of Chicago emerging Latina writers showcasing a rich range of stories and writing genres. \n \n11 a.m. Stoop Style Stories\n\n12 p.m. Homolatte: Andy M Karol\, Tiff Beatty\, Patrick Gill\nHomolatte is a spoken word and acoustic music series for the Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual and Transgender community\, and its friends and allies. Now in it’s thirteenth year\, Homolatte features one spoken word artist and one musician from the LGBT community at each event. It is a free admission / all ages event\, and happens twice-a-month at Big Chicks in Uptown. It is curated by Scott Free\, a 2010 inductee into the City of Chicago Gay/Lesbian Hall of Fame. Homolatte is the longest running LGBT performance series in the country. \n \n1 p.m. That’s All She Wrote: Tom Wolferman\, James (GPA) Gordon\, JH Palmer\, Angela Benander\nThat’s All She Wrote is a non-competitive Live Lit venue for storytellers of all stripes\, co-produced by Angela Benander and J.H. Palmer\, who share the mic each month with a new lineup of readers.\nJoin us at 8:00 pm on the second Sunday of every month at The Savoy\, 1408 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Wicker Park. The show is FREE.\nWant to read something? Talk to us after the show or email a non-fiction essay to thatsallshewrotechicago@gmail.com \n\n2 p.m. Third World Press\n3 p.m. Quare Square: C.c. Carter\, Denise Miller Dionysus DeVille\, Vero N Ica and M Shelly Conner\nQuare Square Collective\, Inc. will present a series of readings\, spoken word\, and poetry with visual art displays by members of its collective comprised of queer artists of color in the Midwest. Artwork display provided by Veronica Stein. \n\n4 p.m. Sunday Salon: Paulette Livers and Patricia King\nSunday Salon Chicago is a literary reading series that began in New York City thirteen years ago and here in Chicago almost exactly three years ago. We have an event every other month on the last Sunday of the month where we showcase 4 or 5 different writers: poets\, novelists and short story writers\, as well as storytellers. This event is always free and always fun. \n\n5 p.m. Red Rover Reading Series: Barbara Barg\, Adrienne Dodt\, Nathan Hoks\, Jennifer Karmin\, Virginia Konchan\, Ladan Osman\, Keith S. Wilson\nRed Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local\, national\, and international writers\, artists\, and performers. Founded in 2005\, the over seventy events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/readings-at-printers-row-lit-fest/
LOCATION:Printers Row Lit Festival\, Dearborn and Polk Streets\, Chicago\, 60605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brooksday 2014
DESCRIPTION:For the second year\, the Guild Literary Complex’s will present its signature event\, Brooksday 2014—a marathon reading that celebrates the life and work of renowned Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Taking place at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest on Saturday\, June 7—Brooks’ birthday—from 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. at the Guild’s tent (located on the corner of Polk and Dearborn). There will also be a special Brooksday reading taking place at the adjacent Poetry tent from 3:45–4:30 p.m \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n\n\nBROOKSDAY 2014 SCHEDULE\nWelcome\, 10:00 a.m.\nEmcee: Andrea Change \nAndrea Change has been a poet in Chicago for over 20 years\, published in a number of poetry magazines\, journals\, and such poetry anthologies from Tia Chucha Press as Powerlines and Stray Bullets. \nAzania Drums (pronounced: ah-zah-nee-ah) is comprised of Betty Shabazz Academy students ranging in age from 6 to 14\, grades Kindergarten through 8th. Their instructor is Babu Atiba Walker who is also the Assistant Artistic Director for the Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago. \n____________________________________ \nReading Group 1\, 10:35 a.m.\nEmcee: Andrea Change \nREADERS \nDr. Carol L. Adams is President and CEO of The DuSable Museum of African American History. Dr. Adams is founding Director of MAPS (Museums and Public Schools) and the Museum Consortium. \nCarolyn Saper is Chicago director of the American Writers Museum\, a nonprofit dedicated to establishing the first museum in the country devoted exclusively to celebrating American writers. \nMaggie Brown is a Chicago native who made her professional acting and singing debut at the Body Politic Theater. She has traveled with her show\, Legacy\, which follows the history and evolution of African American music. \nJoan Gray is the President and former dancer for Muntu Dance Theatre. \nElizabeth Burke-Dain founded the Around the Coyote arts festival\, worked for Columbia College\, and ran her own arts PR business. She is currently the Media and Marketing Director at Poetry Foundation. \nEric May is author of the novel Bedrock Faith. An associate professor in the Fiction Writing program at Columbia College Chicago\, he’s a former reporter for The Washington Post. \n____________________________________ \nReading Group 2\, 11:20 a.m.\nEmcee: Andrea Change \nREADERS \nKurt Heintz is a writer and new media artist. He began long-distance exchanges of live poetry performances by video with the Guild’s 2nd Poetry Video Festival in 1992\, which he organized. \nRegina Harris Baiocchi is an author and composer whose music has been performed by Chicago Symphony\, Detroit Symphony\, Milwaukee Brass Quintet\, and internationally-acclaimed artists\, among others. \nSandra Jackson-Opoku is a native of Chicago and the award-winning author of Where Blood is Born. \nShanara “The MouthPeace” Sanders\, a Chicago native of the Westside\, is a “poetemcee”\, vocalist\, actress\, and entrepreneur through her company: MouthPeace Entertainment. \nJanet Burroway is the author of plays\, poetry\, children’s books\, and eight novels including The Buzzards\, Raw Silk\, Opening Nights\, and Bridge of Sand. \nAndrea Change has been a poet in Chicago for over 20 years\, published in a number of poetry magazines\, journals\, and such poetry anthologies from Tia Chucha Press as Powerlines and Stray Bullets. \n____________________________________ \n Reader Group 3\, 12:20 p.m.\nEmcee: Andrea Change \n READERS \nBeverly Reed Scott (Momma Earth) is an Original Voice Storyteller initiated by author and Jungian Analyst\, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. She writes poetry and short stories. \nTeri Boyd has been a picture editor for several media organizations\, and has worked with many documentary photographers. \nAngela Narciso Torres’s first book of poetry\, Blood Orange\, won the 2013 Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry. She teaches poetry workshops and serves as a Senior Poetry Editor for RHINO. \nCristina Henríquez is the author of two books—a short story collection called Come Together\, Fall Apart and a novel entitled The World in Half. She’s currently working on her second novel. \nJulie Parson Nesbitt received the Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award and holds an MFA in Creative Writing (University of Pittsburgh). She is currently Contributing Editor for West End Press. \nEllen Placey Wadey holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches Literature at Columbia College Chicago among others. \nKathleen Rooney is a founding Editor of Rose Metal Press\, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres\, as well as a member of Poems While You Wait\, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She is the author of six books of poetry and nonfiction \n___________________________________ \nTEAM REBIRTH\, 1:15 p.m.\nEmcee: Andrea Change \nSpecial performance by TEAM REBIRTH\, an award-winning youth SLAM poetry group. \n___________________________________ \n Reading Group 4\, 1:55 p.m.\nEmcee: Quraysh Ali Lansana \nQuraysh Ali Lansana is an educator\, editor\, and the author of five poetry books. Lansana served as the Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing from 2002–2011. \n READERS \nFeaturing members of the Chicago Association of Black Storytellers (ASE) \nMama Edie Armstrong is a bilingual storyteller and percussionist. \nBaby Tony Brown is a musician and storyteller. He believes stories can transform and inspire its listeners. \nD. Kucha Brownlee is a storyteller\, vocalist\, percussionist\, and author. She is co-founder and President of ASE. \nAlice Butler Collins is a Chicago author\, storyteller\, workshop facilitator\, poet\, and educator. \nAndrea Fain is a poet and storyteller and performs throughout the Chicago area; as well\, is Vice-President of ASE. \nDhamana Shauri is a storyteller\, who draws story themes from her wealth of experience as a schoolteacher and social worker. \n____________________________________ \nReading of Children Coming Home Poetry\, 3:00 p.m.\nEmcee: Quraysh Ali Lansana \nREADER \nJavon J. Smith is a spoken word poet\, playwright\, performer\, educator\, and activist. He also holds three minors in African and Black Diaspora Studies\, LGBTQ Studies\, and Theatre Studies. He coaches Poetry and Prose Reading for the speech team at his Alma Mater\, Thornton Township High School. \n**Please note that following Children Coming Home\, Brooksday will move to the Arts & Poetry Tent\, located immediately west of the Guild Tent on Dearborn and Polk. It is across the walkway** \n____________________________________ \nReading Group 5\, 3:45 p.m. at the Arts & Poetry Tent\n(Located west of the Guild Tent on Dearborn and Polk) \nEmcee: Toni Asante Lightfoot \nToni Asante Lightfoot is co-founder of the poetry collective Modern Urban Griots. She is a leader of Blackout Arts Collective and was President of the African American Writers Guild. \nREADERS \nBarbara Kensey is an award-winning public relations consultant\, writer\, and pioneer in African American tourism as creator and publisher of Chicago’s first comprehensive resource and visitors guide to Black history and culture. \nDonna Seaman is a Senior Editor for Booklist. A recipient of the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award\, Seaman also writes for the Chicago Tribune\, among other publications. \nBill Hillman is an author and storyteller from Chicago. His debut novel The Old Neighborhood has received acclaim from the Chicago Tribune\, Chicago Reader\, and others. He is a current contributor to Playboy online. \nDan “Sully” Sullivan is the founder and curator of the Urban Sandbox\, an all-ages poetry event in Chicago. Sully has appeared on Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO\, WGN Morning News\, and NPR. \nAlice Kim is a cultural organizer\, activist\, and writer. She is the Director of The Public Square\, a program of the Illinois Humanities Council that creates spaces for public conversations about social\, political\, and cultural issues. \n**After Group 5\, Brooksday returns to the Guild Tent just east across the walkway at Dearborn and Polk** \n____________________________________ \nNora Brooks Blakely + Aurora Performance Group\, 4:35 p.m.\nEmcee: Toni Asante Lightfoot \nREADERS \nNora Brooks Blakely is Gwendolyn Brooks’ daughter and a theater teacher at DuSable Leadership Academy. She oversees Brooks Permissions. \nThe Aurora Performance Group is the performing arm of Brooks Permissions\, illuminating the life and work of Gwendolyn Brooks from different perspectives. \n____________________________________ \n Group 6\, 4:55 p.m. at the Guild Tent (Dearborn and Polk)\nEmcee: Toni Asante Lightfoot \n READERS \nWillie Williams is a poet and a former board member for Broadside Press in Detroit\, Michigan. He is also a former coordinator of the Poets Theater of Broadside Press. \nPeggy Shinner is the author of You Feel So Mortal/Essays on the Body (University of Chicago Press 2014). Her work has most recently appeared on Salon. Currently\, she teaches in the MFA program at Northwestern University. \nStephen Young\, former Senior Editor of Poetry\, is currently Program Director of the Poetry Foundation. He was educated at Dartmouth and joined the magazine in 1988. \nRobert Polito is a poet and scholar\, currently serving as the President of the Poetry Foundation. Prior\, he was the Director of the Creative Writing department at The New School for two decades. \navery r. young was indoctrinated with the 400+ years of the African-American experience\, history\, culture\, and art. Avery’s work blends phonetics\, linguistics\, hymns\, jazz and hip-hop to depict the politic and inspiring attributes attached to the stories of a people. \nPatricia Smith is the author of six critically acknowledged volumes of poetry\, including Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah\, winner of the 2013 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets\, among others. \nClosing Remarks\, 5:50 p.m.\nSpeaker: Nora Brooks Blakely \n  \n  \nOur Partners\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 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/brooksday-2014/
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Two poetic voices of the new Latin American territory
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly bilingual reading series is curated in May by Febronio Zatarain and features Emmanuel Ayala and Miguel Marzana. \nAbout the Artists\n“I write because it is a privilege I have earned. Ever since I was 12 years old I read poetry and loved it. One day I embraced the pen and spilled ink on any loose sheet of paper I could manage to find. I am sadden by many things in my life\, I am battling many obstacles and surviving on a daily basis\, I tend to vent and create social\, cultural and educational awareness thru some f my work. I have much to learn and much to develop. For I am still a young writer and hope to one day reach my goal.” –Emmanuel Ayala \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nMiguel Marzana’s poems and short stories have been published in Contratiempo magazine and have been included in the poetry anthologies “Susurros\,” “Ciudad Cien” and “Cantologia” for the Guild Literary Complex. He is the author of “Descomposiciones\,” a collection of his early works of poetry. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Curator\nFebronio Zatarain immigrated to the U.S. in 1989; since then he has dedicated himself to promoting literature through writing workshops and  cultural magazines. His most recent book is Prosario\, included in Desarraigos: cuatro poetas latinoamericanos en Chicago\, published by Ediciones Vocesueltas. He currently coordinates the contratiempowriting workshop.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-two-poetic-voices-of-the-new-latin-american-territory/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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SUMMARY:REVEAL 25 – The Guild's 25th Anniversary Party and Benefit
DESCRIPTION:25 Writers to Watch\nREVEAL 25 is the Guild’s 25th anniversary party\, an opportunity to celebrate 25 years of mission-driven accomplishments in Chicago’s vast literary community. It is a jubilant celebration of the past\, and also a chance to look ahead to the future. Past and present directors\, including founding director Michael Warr\, will be announcing our 25 Writers to Watch—25 emerging and established writers whose works are making an impact on their communities and neighborhoods right now\, and possess all the potential and power to influence writers and readers globally. These writers will be present at the party\, and the Guild will include them in upcoming programs. \nOur shindig takes place at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater (2433 N Lincoln Ave) across from the old Guild Books—the birthplace of the Guild Complex. We will celebrate this silver anniversary in style with an open bar from 6:30-7:30p.m.\, a special program (see below) at 7:30p.m.\, and music + libations + dancing the rest of the night. Please join us! \n\nOnline sales have ended. A few tickets are available at the door!\n\n\nADD YOUR VOICE\nA Guild Complex happening would be incomplete without the voices of our friends\, collaborators\, and supporters. So send us your favorite Guild memory\, and we’ll add it to a visual timeline at REVEAL 25. It could be a memory of teh first event you attended\, or one that held special significance for you. Send as many memories as you wish: email them to AddYourVoice@guildcomplex.org. \nPROGRAM NOTES\nInformation on our guest presenters will be added soon\, but expect to hear stories (and see performances) from Michael Warr\, Julie Parson Nesbitt\, Ellen Placey Wadey\, Kimberly Dixon-Mays\, and John Rich. Our 25 Writers to Watch will be REVEALed closer to the event. \nOUR PARTNERS\nWe are pleased to partner with Victory Gardens Theater and Newcity for REVEAL 25. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/reveal-25/
LOCATION:Victory Gardens Biograph Theater\, 2433 North Lincoln Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60614\, United States
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SUMMARY:Breaking the Bread Divide: A Live GuildCast on Food Justice
DESCRIPTION:Left to right: Robert Nevel\, Dave Snyder\, Angela + Sam Taylor\nThe sustainable food movement has rejuvenated holistic thinking on agriculture\, food production\, and consumption. But lost in the movement is how to bring wholesome\, quality food to all and not to just those that can afford it. In a live version of GuildCast\, a monthly podcast by Guild Literary Complex\, journalist Debbie Carlson talks to artists\, journalists\, and activists about food justice and how to address the divide. \nAbout the Participants\nRobert Nevel is an architect\, urban farmer\, and pioneer in the food justice movement. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Advocates for Urban Agriculture\, a Director of the Resource Center\, former chair of the KAM Isaiah Israel Social Justice Committee and since 2013 President of the Congregation. \nIn 2009 Nevel founded the award winning\, nationally recognized KAMII Food \nJustice and Sustainability Program. The Program is focused on transforming unproductive urban lawns into food producing micro-farms\, growing and donating significant quantities of produce\, teaching urban agriculture and sustainability skills and advocating for healthy\, local food systems and responsible energy\, land and water use. \nDave Snyder is a writer and grower. His work in urban agriculture includes the Chicago Rarities Orchard Project\, which aims to establish community rare-fruit orchards in Chicago; Ginkgo Organic Gardens\, an all-volunteer food pantry garden; and previously at the rooftop farm at Uncommon Ground. This work has been recognized by the Mayor’s Landscape Awards and Chicago Cares and has been featured in the Chicago Tribune\, GRIST\, TimeOut Chicago\, Chicago Magazine\, and others. \nDave speaks often on topics of urban agriculture\, sustainable food production and crop diversity. \nAngela Taylor\, along with her husband Sam\, used gardening to transform their Fulton Street block into a safe space where vacant lots are used to grow food. They’ve spread their vision of a greener\, cleaner community throughout the Garfield Park neighborhood\, mentoring teens who are learning how to garden and landscape and starting a farmer’s market where all the food sold is grown in the Garfield Park community. \nThis event is part of the University of Chicago’s Studs Terkel Festival Let’s Get Working and is co-sponsored by Graze magazine. \nWe will be serving food—soup and bread provided by the Jane Addams Hull-House.   \nDon’t forget to enjoy our archive of podcasts including conversations with Yoko Noge\, Mark Turcotte\, Duriel E. Harris\, and more on our SoundCloud page. \nAbout Our Partners\n“It is a part of the new philanthropy to recognize that the social question is largely a question of the stomach.”\n—Jane Addams \nSocial reformer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams (1860–1935) believed that nutrition and food security would lead to more peaceful communities. Under her direction\, the Hull-House Settlement\, a social center for new immigrants to Chicago\, piloted creative solutions to hunger including a public kitchen and coffee house\, pasteurized milk stations\, cooking classes\, and community gardens. \nInspired by this legacy\, the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum hosts Re-Thinking Soup\, a community conversation series on issues of food and justice. Audiences gather each month over a free\, hot meal of soup and bread to hear from activists\, farmers\, economists\, artists\, and guest chefs. Topics have included urban agriculture\, hunger\, food in schools and prisons\, immigrant labor\, cultural traditions\, and food policy. We meet in the historic Residents’ Dining Hall\, where Upton Sinclair\, Ida B. Wells\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Gertrude Stein\, and other important social reformers met to share meals and ideas. \nFor six years\, Re-Thinking Soup has provided nourishing experiences that bring disparate areas of the food movement into conversation and collective action. This ongoing dialogue is an opportunity to probe some of the most pressing issues of our existence and re-imagine the food system to create a more fair\, delicious\, and healthy world for all of us. \nGraze magazine is a semi-annual literary magazine that focuses on what’s on the table as much as the folks sitting around it. “We’re interested in the stories that food tells about us–after all\, our collective and individual human histories were nourished by the food that we made\, smelled\, ate\, threw up\, fucked up\, and loved.” \nAbout the Studs Terkel Let’s Get Working Festival\nTaking place May 9–12\, Let’s Get Working is a three-day festival celebrating the legacy of Studs Terkel\, revisiting his work and tracing his influence through oral histories\, film screenings\, performances\, art installations\, storytelling\, and community dialogues.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/breaking-the-bread-divide/
LOCATION:Logan Arts Center\, 915 E 60th St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140426T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140426T220000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: Voices of Protest
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 26\, 8:00 p.m.\nFacets Multimedia\n1517 W. Fullerton Ave.\n(Note: The same program takes place at 7 p.m. on Friday\, April 25.) \nAl-Sheikh\, Maarouf\nVoices of Protest\, April 25 & 26\, draws attention to the plight of exiled authors and celebrates a global literature. The Guild will host Manal Al-Sheikh (Iraq) and Mazen Maarouf (Palestine)\, two poets currently living in exile in Scandinavia for their work as writers and journalists. \n \nAs part of this program two short films will be screened which are included in Poets of Protest\, an Al Jazeera produced documentary series by British filmmaker Roxana Vilk. The series focuses on six Middle Eastern authors and the relationship of their work to initiatives for democracy and social justice across the Middle East. Screenings will be followed  by readings from Al-Sheikh and Maarouf. \nTickets are $5 and can be purchased here. \nSupport for Voices of Protest is provided by the MacArthur Foundation International Connections Fund. It is co-sponsored by Facets Multi-Media\, Al Jazeera America\, Words Without Borders\, and HotHouse. \n About the participants:\nMazen Maarouf is a Palestinian-Icelandic poet and writer\, lauded as a “rising international literary star”. He has published three collections of poetry: The Camera Doesn’t Capture Birds\, Our Grief Resembles Bread\, and most recently An Angel Suspended On The Clothesline\, which has been translated into several languages including French by Samira Negrouche (Amandier Poésie\, 2013). His work is currently being translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Nathalie Handal. Maarouf has read in festivals\, universities\, museums and cultural centers in Europe\, the United States and the Middle East. He has written literary and theatre criticism in various Arabic magazines and newspapers namely An-Nahar and Assafir (Lebanon)\, Al-Quds-el-Arabi (London) and Qantara (Paris); and he has translated numerous Icelandic poets as well as the following novels in Arabic: The Blue Fox by Sjón\, Hands of my Father by Myron Uhlberg\, The Story of the Blue Planet by Andri Snær Magnason and Dwarfstone by Aðalsteinn Ásberg. He resides in Reykjavik. \nThe Iraqi poet and writer Manal Al-sheikh was born in Nineveh in northern Iraq. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English- Arabic translation from the college of Arts\, Mosul University. She has worked in local and Arab press as a freelance journalist. She has published creative and literary articles and texts in many Iraqi\, Arab\, and European newspapers and magazines\, and participated in many cultural festivals within and outside the her native country . Many of her poems and essays have been translated into several languages including: English\, French\, Norwegian\, Catalan and Italian. She currently resides in the city of Stavanger\, Norway. \nOur Sponsors:\n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-voices-of-protest-2/
LOCATION:Facets Multi-Media\, 1517 W Fullerton Ave\, Select a Country:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140425T210000
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: Voices of Protest
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 25\, 7:00 p.m.\nFacets Multimedia\n1517 W. Fullerton Ave.\n(Note: The same program takes place at 8 p.m. on Saturday\, April 26.) \n  \nAl-Sheikh\, Maarouf\nVoices of Protest\, April 25 & 26\, draws attention to the plight of exiled authors and celebrates a global literature. The Guild will host Manal Al-Sheikh (Iraq) and Mazen Maarouf (Palestine)\, two poets currently living in exile in Scandinavia for their work as writers and journalists. \n \nAs part of this program two short films will be screened which are included in Poets of Protest\, an Al Jazeera produced documentary series by British filmmaker Roxana Vilk. The series focuses on six Middle Eastern authors and the relationship of their work to initiatives for democracy and social justice across the Middle East. Screenings will be followed  by readings from Al-Sheikh and Maarouf. \nTickets are $5 and can be purchased here. \nA public lecture from the Executive Director of International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) will be presented in conjunction with this program. \nSupport for Voices of Protest is provided by the MacArthur Foundation International Connections Fund. It is co-sponsored by Facets Multi-Media\, Al Jazeera America\, Words Without Borders\, and HotHouse. \n About the participants:\nMazen Maarouf is a Palestinian-Icelandic poet and writer\, lauded as a “rising international literary star”. He has published three collections of poetry: The Camera Doesn’t Capture Birds\, Our Grief Resembles Bread\, and most recently An Angel Suspended On The Clothesline\, which has been translated into several languages including French by Samira Negrouche (Amandier Poésie\, 2013). His work is currently being translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Nathalie Handal. Maarouf has read in festivals\, universities\, museums and cultural centers in Europe\, the United States and the Middle East. He has written literary and theatre criticism in various Arabic magazines and newspapers namely An-Nahar and Assafir (Lebanon)\, Al-Quds-el-Arabi (London) and Qantara (Paris); and he has translated numerous Icelandic poets as well as the following novels in Arabic: The Blue Fox by Sjón\, Hands of my Father by Myron Uhlberg\, The Story of the Blue Planet by Andri Snær Magnason and Dwarfstone by Aðalsteinn Ásberg. He resides in Reykjavik. \nThe Iraqi poet and writer Manal Al-sheikh was born in Nineveh in northern Iraq. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English- Arabic translation from the college of Arts\, Mosul University. She has worked in local and Arab press as a freelance journalist. She has published creative and literary articles and texts in many Iraqi\, Arab\, and European newspapers and magazines\, and participated in many cultural festivals within and outside the her native country . Many of her poems and essays have been translated into several languages including: English\, French\, Norwegian\, Catalan and Italian. She currently resides in the city of Stavanger\, Norway. \nOur Sponsors:\n  \n \n  \nFacets Multi-Media\n  \nAl Jazeera\n  \nWords Without Borders\n  \nHotHouse\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-voices-of-protest/
LOCATION:Facets Multi-Media\, 1517 W Fullerton Ave\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Applied Words,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140423T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
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SUMMARY:Safe\, But Not Silent: How ICORN helps persecuted writers
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 23\n6:00 p.m.\nChicago Temple Building\, Pierce Hall \nHelge Lunde\n\n77 W Washington Street\nFREE\n\nSafe\, But Not Silent: How ICORN helps persecuted writers\nA public talk by Helge Lunde\, Executive Director of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN)\n\n\nHeld in conjunction with the Guild’s Voices of Protest event.\nRSVP for tickets here (click on the blue “6:00 p.m.” link on April 23). \n  \nHelge Lunde\, executive director of the International Cities of Refuge Network\, will discuss the significant work his organization performs to aid writers facing political threats and persecution. The Guild Complex’s guest artists Manal Al Sheikh and Mazen Maarouf\, featured in Voices of Protest\, both benefited from the services of ICORN. As part of his address\, Mr. Lunde will share the history and need for ICORN\, tell stories of affected artists\, and invite Chicago to become an International City of Refuge. There will be a question-and-answer period after the talk\, followed by a reception with the artists. \nVoices of Protest is generously funded by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. Related April programs are co-sponsored by Facets Multi-Media\, Al Jazeera America\, Words Without Borders\, HotHouse\, and the National Writers Union-Chicago Chapter. \nThis talk is co-presented with Silk Road Rising. \n  \nAbout our speaker:\nHelge Lunde was the director of Kapittel\, Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech from 1998 – 2005. In the same period he was responsible for Stavanger as City of Refuge for persecuted writers\, and worked together with Norwegian PEN to develop the network throughout Norway and beyond.Mr. Lunde was among the main figures behind establishing ICORN\, the International Cities of Refuge Network in 2005. He became its first Executive Director\, a position he has been holding since.\n\nOur Co-Presenter:\n\n\nSilk Road Rising\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n Our Partners:\n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/safe-but-not-silent/
LOCATION:Chicago Temple Building– Pierce Hall\, 77 W Washington Street\, Chicago\, 60602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Applied Words,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
CREATED:20140221T162651Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura\, curated by Eduardo Arocho
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 16\n7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m.\nLa Bruquena\, upstairs\n2726 W. Division St. \nFrom left to right: Laurie Ann Guerrero\, Eduardo Arocho (curator)\, Rich Villar.\nFirst Class: Celebrating the first full-collections of poetry by two emerging Latino Poets: Rich Villar\, author of Comprehending Forever\, and Laurie Ann Guerrero\, author of A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying. Curated by poet Eduardo Arocho.\nThis program is co-presented with the Poetry Foundation. \nABOUT THE READERS\nLaurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the South Side of San Antonio\, she received the Academy of American Poets Prize\, among others\, at Smith College. Winner of the 2012 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize\, her first full-length collection\, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying\, selected by Francisco X. Alarcón\, was released by University of Notre Dame Press in 2013. Guerrero’s poetry and critical work have appeared in Huizache\, Texas Monthly\, Bellevue Review\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Global City Review\, Texas Observer\, Chicana/Latina Studies\, Feminist Studies\, and others. Guerrero holds a B.A. in English Language & Literature from Smith College and an MFA in poetry from Drew University. Guerrero’s chapbook\, Babies under the Skin (2008)\, won the Panhandler Publishing Award\, chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye. A CantoMundo fellow and member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop\, Guerrero’s work has been highlighted in the LA Review of Books\, The Poetry Foundation/Harriet Blog\, and Poets & Writers Magazine in which she was named one of ten top-emerging poets in 2013. Other honors include fellowships from the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award Foundation and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. Guerrero has served on the faculty at Palo Alto College\, University of the Incarnate Word\, University of Texas-El Paso\, and Gemini Ink\, a community-centered literary arts organization in San Antonio. She where she is a visiting writer at Our Lady of the Lake University. \nRich Villar is a writer originally from Paterson\, New Jersey. He directs Acentos\, an organization fostering audiences and community around Latino/a literature. He has been quoted on Latino literature and culture by both The New York Times and the Daily News\, and his poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Renaissance Noire\, Hanging Loose\, Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, and Sou’wester. His first collection\, COMPREHENDING FOREVER\, is forthcoming in 2014 from Willow Books. \nABOUT THE CURATOR\nEduardo Arocho was born and raised in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood where he currently resides.He is the author of six self-published chapbooks of poetry including: Highway Island  (2008)\, The 4th Tassel (2006)\, Poems Behind The Máscara (2002). His latest collection of poetry is Hot Wings (2013). His poems have also been published in Cantologia I: El Amor (Palabra Pura Poets) by Pandora Lobo Estepario Press\, Chicago 2013\,  El CENTRO JOURNAL\, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College\, New York\, NY\, (2001)\, Power Lines: Anthology by Tia Chucha Press\, (2000); and Open Fist: Anthology of Young Illinois Poets by Tia Chucha Press\, (1993). A graduate of Spertus College of Nonprofit Management\, with a Masters of Science in Human Services Administration\, he is currently completing work on his forthcoming collection of poems Nacio Maestro. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-april/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140412T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140412T153000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
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SUMMARY:Gwendolyn Brooks Community Reading
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 12\, 2:00 p.m.\nWoodson Regional Library (Auditorium)\, 9525 South Halsted\n  \nIn conjunction with Brooksday—the Guild’s annual tribute to author Gwendolyn Brooks—we’re pleased to present the Gwendolyn Brooks Community Reading series in collaboration with the American Writers Museum and their traveling exhibition From Our Neighborhoods: Four Chicago Writers Who Changed America. \nRead aloud your favorite Gwendolyn Brooks poem on Saturday\, April 12. Bring your favorite Brooks poem with you or choose from a selection we will have on hand.\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gwendolyn-brooks-community-reading-woodson/
LOCATION:Woodson Library\, 9525 South Halsted
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140326T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140326T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T091549
CREATED:20140115T154041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140310T142117Z
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: Unseen Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Schubas Tavern\n3159 N. Southport Ave. \nFrom left to right: Paul Gorski\, Joe Austin II\, PhD\, Stephanie Levi (Curator)\, Anne Yoder\, Vojislav Pejović.\nFROM THE CURATOR\, STEPHANIE LEVI\, PhD: \nI am delighted to be curating this month’s Applied Words series. The theme of Unseen Worlds stemmed from my experience as a microscopist originally. When I was working on my graduate degree\, I did intensive light\, fluorescence\, and electron microscopy\, which is a technique that enables one to look at microscopic objects at both high magnification and high resolution. I was captivated by the images I saw and collected\, as well as the idea that there were worlds that were visible far beyond what our naked eye is capable of visualizing. Although we can’t see them unaided they still exist\, and they are captivating\, inspiring us to think about life at scales that we aren’t able to see. Analagously\, when we view the Earth from space\, it looks like a blue marble\, but those of us here know that there are high peaks and deep depths\, and that the planet is teeming with life. I’ve often thought about the secret lives of the objects and living things at the microscopic level —what are there love stories\, their dramas\, their routines? \nThese ideas and images were the spark for the theme\, and beyond this\, I was intrigued by the many subcontexts of the theme as well. There are communities of people who can’t necessarily access science easily or are underrepresented in STEM\, and I see the theme as an opportunity to highlight these communities and populations\, understand the connection between science and social justice\, and support their engagement and interest in science and math. The theme also crosses disciplines\, exploring how science and the arts and humanities intersect\, and what happens when they do. \nIn putting the group of readers together\, I sought to feature scientists as writers\, and science-curious artists to explore the union of the two. My hope is that attendees and the general public leave the event with a better appreciation of scientists as artists in their own right\, cultural creators who offer comment on our shared experience from vantages not normally witnessed. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nJotham (Joe) Austin\, II\, was born and raised in Philadelphia\, PA. He received his BS in Biology from Penn State University-Behrend\, but when not in the lab he was busy writing short stories and poems. He attended graduate school at Arizona State University\, where he received his PhD in Botany. One could say his love of writing continued to blossom: Joe started reading his poems at coffeehouses and small venues around Tempe\, AZ\, and eventually formed a poetry/music combo with Robbie Roberson\, director of Electron Microscopy. After taking a Postdoctoral position in Microscopy in Boulder\, CO\, he made his way to Chicago where he currently is Director of the University of Chicago’s Electron Microscopy Core Facility. Joe returned to creative writing after tearing his Achilles tendon\, finishing his first novel\, Pretty Small Things. He now knows the true meaning of rejection as he chases publication\, but everyone loves his homebrew. \nPaul Gorski majored in biology and chemistry before taking a job as a technical copywriter. After coordinating his marketing department’s move to digital publishing in the early ‘90s\, he moved on to develop and support digital publishing systems used by ad agencies\, newspapers and publishers. Paul currently supports publishing workflows at the American Dental Association in Chicago. He also writes two weekly columns for The Rock River Times newspaper in Rockford\, where he lives with his wife and children. Somewhere between Chicago and Rockford he pauses long enough to manage www.nwuchicago.org\, the National Writers Union–Chicago website. \nVojislav Pejović (“voice-love peyovich”) is a neurobiologist by training and earns his living as a medical writer. In 2008\, he published a critically acclaimed novel in his native Montenegro\, and in 2010\, translations of Charles Simic’s poetry in Serbo-Croatian. He also wrote a couple of movie scripts. His current project is a collection of stories in English and Serbo-Croatian. He lives in Evanston with his wife and their two sons. \nAnne K. Yoder is a staff writer for the online literary magazine The Millions and is the co-editrix of Projecttile\, a journal of nontraditional writing with a feminist bent. When she’s not dealing in words\, she’s dealing in pharmaceuticals\, legally. She’s a registered pharmacist in three states and she’s moonlighted as a hospital pharmacist for over ten years to support her writing habit. Her fiction\, nonfiction\, and criticism have appeared in Fence\, Bomb\, and Tin House\, among other publications. \nABOUT THE CURATOR: \nStephanie Levi received her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago\, and created a variety of science outreach\, communication and mentoring opportunities during her pre-doctoral years. After completing her Ph.D.\, she centered her career at the nexus of science\, outreach\, education and communication\, focusing on improving student recruitment\, retention and success in the sciences\, technology\, engineering and math (STEM)\, particularly underrepresented students\, first generation and low income students\, and individuals with disabilities. Her impact has led to programmatic success and student achievement at a variety of venues\, including the Midwest’s only four-year Hispanic-Serving Institution\, a national non-profit\, local youth-serving organizations\, museums and libraries\, among others.  Public education and outreach with science\, technology\, engineering and math are critical components of her professional interests\, particularly as they focus on adults. She is the creator of Night Lab and Science is Sexy\, public outreach initiatives to build a bridge between the scientific community and the general public to foster public education\, engagement and interest in science. \nClick the logo below to learn more about Science is Sexy:
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-unseen-worlds/
LOCATION:Schubas Tavern
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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