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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Inspiration
DESCRIPTION:Poets meet muse at the September installment of our monthly bilingual poetry series\, Palabra Pura\, curated by Irasema Gonzalez and featuring poets Diana Pando and Xánath Caraza. “Inspiration” takes place Wednesday\, September 18\, 2013\, at 7:30 PM at La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division. The program will be spoken in English and Spanish. Admission is free. \nThe dynamic between artist and inspiration is at times a lovely dance and at others a bitter duel.  Join us as we discover how two poets responded when Federico Garcia Lorca’s version of duende\, “that mysterious power that everyone feels but no philosopher can explain\,” extended a hand for a dance on the page. \nIrasema Gonzalez  has presented work at 2nd Story\, the Poetry Performance Incubator and Palabra Pura.  Her story Love in the Time of Crushed Cherries and Aqua Net broadcasted on Vocalo on WBEZ.  Her poems appeared in the chapbook\, Afternoon Wine: Vicios\, Sueños y Confesiones\, Ariel XXVIII\, and Between the Heart and the Land: An Anthology of Midwestern Latina Poets by March Abrazo Press. She is a founding member of Proyecto Latina\, a multi-media project that spotlights the work of Latinas and she shares an essay in their recently published anthology Rebeldes. \n \nXánath Caraza is a traveler\, educator\, poet and short story writer. Her published works include Sílabas de viento (Mammoth Publications\, 2014)\, Lo que trae la marea/ What the Tide Brings\, Conjuro\, and Corazón Pintado: Ekphrastic Poems. Caraza was the winner of the 2003 Ediciones Nuevo Espacio international short story contest\, an International Book Awards finalist in 2013\, and was named a 2013 Top Ten “New” Latino Authors to Watch by Latinostories.com. \n  \n \nDiana Pando is a poet\, writer\, and a founder of the Proyecto Latina Reading Series. In 2012\, her poem Coatlique Rising was selected to be part of the Rites of Passage anthology and was a finalist for the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Competition. In 2010 her ten-minute play Thirst was presented at Teatro Luna’s 10X10 play festival. Currently she is part of the Con Tinta literary advisory board\n.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-8/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130903T180000
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: Broken Windows
DESCRIPTION:If urban design is the language of the city\, where is the story – and who tells it? In Applied Words: on Architecture and the Urban Plan\, the Guild Literary Complex invites writers to examine our relationships with the built environment. \n“Broken Windows\,” the first reading in a series of three to continue from now until October\, will take place on Tuesday\, September 3\, from 6pm-8pm\, in the Polish Triangle located at the intersection of Division Street\, Ashland Avenue\, and Milwaukee Avenue. The free event will include an open mic and stories from Paul Durica\, Maribel Mares\, and Sarah Ross. A free afternoon workshop on “place making” will be lead by architect Katherine Darnstadt\, founder of Latent Design\, from 3pm-5pm. Open mic sign-up begins at 5:30 pm. \nThe “broken windows” social theory states that community ailments such as trash\, graffiti\, and loitering\, when left unchecked\, invite larger criminal problems. But if the “broken windows” are fixed\, a community invites economic development and social prosperity. In practice\, the concept can evolve into zero tolerance for behavior or people considered disruptive or unwanted. Our readers will present stories from the middle\, tales that examine conflict and offer surprise as they foreground the human element in urban design. \nThe Applied Words series explores creative writings intersection with other fields. Ranging in discipline from art and architecture to social history and biology\, Applied Words attempts to use the literary arts to enhance and/or creatively describe other fields. Applied Words: “Broken Windows” is part of summer programming by the Polish Triangle Coalition. It is co-sponsored by SOILED Magazine and generously underwritten by Studio Gang Architects. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nKatherine Darnstadt is the founder and principal of LATENT DESIGN\, a collaborative of individuals whose projects focus on social\, economic and environmental impact beyond the building. She has been published\, exhibited\, and featured widely\, most notably at the International Venice Biennale\, Core 77 Design Awards\, Chicago Ideas Week\, NPR\, and as the 2013 American Institute of Architects Young Architects Honor Award winner. \n  \nPaul Durica has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. His writing has appeared in Poetry\, The Chicagoan\, Tin House\, Mid-American Review\, and Indiana Review among other places. With Bill Savage\, he edited Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker’s Guide to the Paris of America. He is the founder of Pocket Guide to Hell\, a series of free and interactive talks\, walks\, and reenactments that deal with Chicago’s past. \nMaribel Mares is an author\, educator\, and organizer. 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. Her writing explores the cultural and regional identity of Mexican American families. \n  \nSarah Ross is an artist and organizer. She is a co-organizer of the Prison and Neighrborhood Arts Project\, a new art and humanities initiative at Stateville Prison. She is the recipient of grants from the Propeller Fund\, Graham Foundation\, and the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. Ross’ work in sculpture\, video\, and photo visualizes struggles around space\, class\, access\, and gender. \n  \nCo-sponsor: \n \n  \n  \n  \nSOILED – a dirty architecture magazine – tells messy stories about architecture. The stories are unexpected\, they’re accessible\, and they instigate mischief. Collectively\, the stories reach across disciplines to bring a diverse group of people into a public conversation about architecture. SOILED is published twice a year on each solstice. It is an interactive\, physical artifact\, simultaneously disposable and precious. More information at: www.soiledzine.org \nUnderwriting partner: \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founder of Studio Gang Architects\, a Chicago-based collective of architects\, designers\, and thinkers practicing internationally. Jeanne uses architecture as a medium of active response to contemporary issues and their impact on human experience. Each of her projects resonates with its specific site and culture while addressing larger global themes such as urbanization\, climate\, and sustainability. With this approach\, Studio Gang has produced some of today’s most innovative and visually compelling architecture. http://studiogang.net/ \nABOUT POLISH TRIANGLE COALITION: \nThe Polish Triangle Coalition is formed to improve the surroundings around the area bounded by Ashland\, Milwaukee\, and Division Street. Neighborhood community groups\, merchants and local schools are working to create a more pleasant and lively area at the Polish Triangle. www.polishtrianglecoalition.org
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-broken-windows/
LOCATION:Polish Triangle\, Chicago 
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130725T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Performance Incubator Auditions
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Performance Incubator is seeking poets and other writers to collaborate on the creation of a workshop production of Like Bread\, a new theatrical performance about making space for a creative life. We are particularly interested in working with poets from a broad range of aesthetics\, backgrounds\, ages\, and Chicago communities. \nInspired by the Roque Dalton poem “Like You\,” Like Bread will explore the relationship between writing and social struggles\, the way that writing can transform a life\, and how challenging (but joyful) it can be to claim oneself “a writer.” \nNoted director (and longtime Incubator artist lead) Coya Paz will facilitate this project. The Guild is particularly interested in working with a multigenerational cast\, and writers of all ages are encouraged to audition. \nTo Audition: \nAuditions will be Thursday\, July 25\, 6:30 PM\, at Free Street Theatre (1419 W. Blackhawk St). Audition slots are 30 minutes and will include you giving a 2-3 minute recital of your original written material\, on-the-spot writing from prompts\, and group theatre exercises. The call back will be Saturday\, July 27\, and by invitation only. The call back will be a full group audition for two hours. \nTo schedule an audition\, email aromero@guildcomplex.org with “Auditions” in subject line\, and give your name\, phone number\, and what time(s) you’re available July 25\, 6:30pm-8:30pm. Then we’ll call you back to schedule your audition.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poetry-performance-incubator-auditions/
LOCATION:Free Street Theatre\, 1419 W. Blackhawk St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130723T220000
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SUMMARY:Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards
DESCRIPTION:Guild Literary Complex is pleased to announce the 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. Join us Tuesday July 23\, 2013\, 7:00 pm\, at the Chopin Theater\, 1542 W Division Street\, for a live voting event and award ceremony. Preliminary judges\, Gwendolyn A. Mitchell and Noël Jones have narrowed the submissions down to just 20 semi-finalists who now have the opportunity to showcase their talents in front of a live audience. Audience members will be voting throughout the evening and will ultimately crown the winner of $500 and the 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. Brooks’ daughter\, Nora Brooks Blakely will present the first place award. The emcee for the event is celebrated poet and performer Toni Ashante Lightfoot. Included in the festivities will be a special reading by Mark Turcotte\, the first winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards in 1993. Tickets are $7 / $5 for students. \nThe 2013 semi-finalists are: Olivia M. Arredondo\, Lucia Blinn\, Ann Breen-Greco\, Quintin Collins\, Dina Elenbogen\, Glenn Ford\, Amelia M. Garcia\, Marc Livingston (a.k.a. G.P.A.)\, Nate Marshall\, Maya Marshall\, Diana Pando\, Gregory Pickett\, Kelly Reuter\, Shanara “The MouthPeace” Sanders\, Sandra Santiago\, Rachel Slotnick\, Javon Smith\, M. Quinn Stifler\, Sharon Warner\, and Arne Weingart \nEMCEE: Toni Asante Lightfoot is a lecturer and co-editor of Dream of a Word: A Tia Chucha Anthology\, The It’s Your Mug 10th Anniversary Commemorative Anthology\, and The Sixth Wave: An anthology of Black writers from the late 70s to 2000. \n  \n  \nSPECIAL PRESENTER: Nora Brooks Blakely is a committed educator and the daughter of Henry Blakely and Gwendolyn Brooks. She developed Brooks Permissions in 2000 to manage her mother’s body of work. \n  \n  \n  \nSPECIAL READER: Mark Turcotte is an educator and the author of four poetry collections\, including The Feathered Heart and Exploding Chippewas. \n  \n  \nPRELIMINARY JUDGE: Gwendolyn A. Mitchell is a poet and editor.  Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including American Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas\, Essence Magazine\, Spaces Between Us and Valley Voices. Ms. Mitchell is the author of two poetry collections\, Veins and Rivers and House of Women\, and is the author of the book-length poem\, Ain’t I Black.  She is the co-editor of two anthologies\, Releasing the Spirit and Describe the Moment\, both collections of literary work from Gallery 37 in Chicago. Her forthcoming book\, Among the Missing\, will be published later this year. Gwendolyn Mitchell resides in Illinois\, where she serves as Senior Editor for Third World Press. \n  \nPRELIMINARY JUDGE: Noël Jones is a writer and former member of the 2000 National Poetry Slam Champion Team NYC-Urbana\, featured in The New York Times and on NPR’s “Infinite Mind\,” as well as at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin\, TX. As a performance poet\, Jones has toured internationally and was elected to be part of an all-woman tour introducing slam poetry to Denmark. Among other appearances\, Jones has been featured at the YWCA Student Association’s National Convention in Phoenix\, Arizona; on New York’s Studio Y on the MetroChannel and Boston’s Stand-Up Poetry. \n  \nThe 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award program is sponsored by Wicker Park Bucktown SSA #33.  WPB SSA #33 is administered by the WPB Chamber of Commerce.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/gwendolyn-brooks-open-mic-awards/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
CATEGORIES:GBOMA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130717T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130717T210000
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "The Diaspora Daughters Speak"
DESCRIPTION:Afro-Latino(a)s/Caribbeans are challenged to reconcile what are seen as conflicting identities. The Guild Literary Complex sheds poetic light on the topic with “The Diaspora Daughters Speak\,” the July installment of our monthly bilingual poetry series Palabra Pura\, curated by Sandra Posados and featuring poets Yolanda Nieves and Maya Emma Nnena Ruth Odim (Maya Odim). “The Diaspora Daughters Speak” takes place Wednesday\, July 17\, 2013\, at 7:30 PM at La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division. The program will be spoken in English and Spanish. Admission is free. \nIssues of identity are at the core of the Afro-Latino(a)/Caribbean experience in the United States. Sometimes seen by Latino(a)s as a novelty\, Afro-Latino(a)s get asked\, “Where did you learn to speak Spanish?” Meanwhile\, whites confuse black Latino(a)s for being African-American. And if an Afro-Latino(a) is light skinned the reality of African roots is not recognized by many family members. July’s Palabra Pura encourages Latino(a)s to redress this conflict. As curator Posado notes\, “We are ‘Latino(a)’ regardless of where we fall on the color spectrum. In their own words\, these empowered\, self-affirming\, educated Afro-Latinas/Caribbean poets [will] share their professional and personal experiences of living with a changing\, often contested identity in a racialized society.” \nSandra Posadas is an educator\, artist/illustrator\, and actress. She holds a B.A. from Roosevelt University and an M.A. in bilingual/bicultural Education from DePaul University. Posadas has performed across the city\, most notably as part of The Brown Girls’ Chronicles. \n  \nYolanda Nieves is an educator\, writer\, and performer. Nieves is an Assistant Professor in English at Wilbur Wright College Chicago and the creative director of The Vida Bella Ensemble. She won the American Educational Research Association’s 2010 Arts-Based Dissertation of the Year Award for the performance-text\, The Brown Girls’ Chronicles:  Puerto Rican Women & Resilience. \n \nMaya Emma Nnena Ruth Odim (Maya Odim) is an artist\, educator\, and author of a collection of poems titled: Planets\, Gourds and Traveling Staffs. As a facilitator and co-facilitator she has experience giving creative writing\, poetry and spoken word workshops\, as well as Latin Dance and Break Dance workshops\, in many spaces in the city of Chicago and the state of Connecticut.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-7/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130709T200000
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: Broken Windows POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Due to a severe weather forecast we have postponed tonight’s event. Applied Words: “Broken Windows” will now be held on Tuesday\, September 3\, 2013. Visit the new event page for more information.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-broken-windows-postponed/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130619T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130619T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Blood\, Family\, and Tears / Sangre\, Familia y Lágrimas"
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly bilingual poetry event. Curated by Johanny Vázquez Paz featuring Dinorah Cortés-Vélez and Teresa Vázquez. \nDinorah Cortés-Vélez \nDinorah Cortés-Velez\nDinorah Cortés-Vélez is from Isabela\, Puerto Rico. She has resided in Wisconsin since 1997. She is an Assistant Professor of Latin American literature at Marquette University\, Milwaukee\, WI\, USA. She earned her doctoral degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation on the ethical and political uses of humor in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Her research interests include Colonial and contemporary Latin American literature. In 2011\, she published her first novel\, El arca de la memoria: una biomitografía\, (The Chest of Memory: A Biomythography) with Isla Negra Publishers (San Juan\, Puerto Rico). Her second book of fiction\, Cuarentena y otras pejigueras menstruales (Quarantine and Other Menstrual Trifles) is about to be published. \n  \n  \n  \nTeresa Vázquez \nTeresa Vázquez\nTeresa Vázquez is an Assistant Professor and the Humanities Program Chair at Ivy Tech Community College Northeast in Fort Wayne. In 2000\, she released a CD Chapbook of poetry and soundscapes entitled A Woman Loving\, with funding from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.  Her work has also appeared in MARCH Abrazo Press’s Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corazón y la tierra\, an anthology of Midwest Latina writers. Teresa has performed at the Printer’s Row Book Festival\, the Guild Complex\, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Def Poetry Jam Showcase\, the Green Mill\, The HotHouse\, and N.A.M.E. Gallery in Chicago\, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art\, TRIAAC’s Acoustic Spokenword Café\, and at IPFW in Fort Wayne.  She holds a Bachelor’s in Creative Writing from Oberlin College\, and an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \nJohanny Vázquez Paz (curator) \nJohanny Vazquez Paz\nJohanny Vázquez Paz was born in San Juan\, Puerto Rico. Her latest book\, Querido voyeur\, was published by Ediciones Torremozas (Madrid\, Spain). Her previous book\, Streetwise Poems /Poemas callejeros (Mayapple Press\, 2007) won Honorable Mention in the 2008 International Latino Book Awards (California). In November\, 2012\, her collection\, “Sagrada familia” (Sacred Family)\, won first prize in the poetry category at the Consenso Short Story and Poetry Contest of Northeastern Illinois University. She also won second prize in the same contest for her story “La muda” (The Mute). She co-edited the anthology Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest published by MARCH/Abrazo Press in 2001. Her work has been included in the anthologies City of Big Shoulders (University of Iowa Press\, 2012)\, Ejército de rosas (Boreales\, 2011)\, En la 18 a la 1\, (Vocesueltas\, 2010)\, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books\, 2007)\, and Poetas sin tregua (Ráfagas\, 2006)\, among others. She currently teaches Spanish at Harold Washington College in Chicago.The author invites everyone to her blog TINTA DERRAMADA at: http://johannyvazquezpaz.blogspot.com/
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-6/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130610
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SUMMARY:Printer's Row Lit Fest
DESCRIPTION:Join us at this year’s Printers Row Lit Fest for a special reading by past contest winners and poets from our Poetry Performance Incubator. \nReading takes place at noon on June 9 at the Arts and Poetry Stage. More details to come.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/printers-row-lit-fest/
LOCATION:Printers Row\, Between Dearborn and Polk \, Chicago
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130607T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130607T193000
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SUMMARY:BROOKSDAY
DESCRIPTION:  \nGuild Literary Complex\, Third World Press\, and The American Writers Museum present the first annual BROOKSDAY at The Chicago Cultural Center! \n\nJoin us\, as we are creating the first annual marathon reading of the works of Gwendolyn Brooks on her birthday!  We want to honor her tremendous legacy as an artist and an iconic figure of generosity and civic conscience in Chicago and in the nation. \nAlong with youth\, other poets\, actors and teachers\, many notable literary\, cultural\, civic\, and political leaders from Chicago and beyond will take the stage at the Chicago Cultural Center on June 7 to celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks\, who was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize.  BROOKSDAY 2013 will be the first step toward creating an annual event that will grow into a city-wide festival by 2017\, Brooks’s 100th birthday.  We are creating an event that will commemorate Gwendolyn Brooks’s artistic achievement\, her legendary generosity toward other poets\, her influence as a pathbreaking cultural figure in Chicago and the nation\, and her deserved stature as the iconic poet of modern Chicago! \nGwendolyn Brooks was the first African American poet to hold the position of poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (the same position that is now called Poet Laureate).  Her many books include A Street In Bronzeville (1945)\, Annie Allen (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949)\, In the Mecca (1968)\, Blacks (1987) and a novel\, Maud Martha (1953). She was the Poet Laureate of Illinois from 1968 until her death in 2000.  We hope to create not only an event but also a consciousness in Chicago and the nation of a poet of extraordinary talent and an exceptional person as well\, a woman of exceptional accomplishment both professional and personal.  On June 7 2013 we will gather at The Chicago Cultural Center to celebrate all that is Gwendolyn Brooks. \nThis event is held in conjunction with The Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest and supported by Brooks Permissions\, Library of America\, and The University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. \n \n \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/brooksday/
LOCATION:The Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E Washington St. 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130515T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130515T210000
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Noche de Novelas / Night of Novels"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly bilingual poetry series\, guest curated by Raul Dorantes and featuring Mark Litwicki\, Martha Cecelia Rivera\, and Febronio Zatarain. \nOn Wednesday\, May 15\, 2013\, Palabra Pura presents “Noche de novelas/Night of Novels\,” curated by Raúl Dorantes. This is a rare opportunity to hear three outstanding Chicago writers read excerpts of their novels in Spanish\, with English supertitles. See and hear the compelling work of these acclaimed authors. The night begins with an open mic at 7:30 p.m. \nMark Litwicki\nMark Litwicki. Autor de La Catedral de Sal\, novela basada en sus experiencias como periodista en Colombia en los noventa. Su drama bilingüe Una pequeña mujer ilegal se produjo en Chicago en 2006. Es miembro de Akvavit\, la compañía de teatro nórdico de Chicago. Doctorado de la Universidad Loyola de Chicago\, es profesor en Morton College y ha impartido cursos de literatura y lingüística para Loyola y la Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Divide su tiempo entre Chicago\, Bogotá y La Habana. \nMark Litwicki. Author of La Catedral de Sal\, a novel based on his experiences as a journalist in Colombia in the nineties. His bilingual play Una pequeña mujer ilegal was produced in Chicago in 2006. He is a member of Akvavit\, a Nordic theater company in Chicago. He has a doctorate from Loyola\, is a professor at Morton College\, and has taught courses in literature and linguistics for Loyola and the University of the Andes in Colombia. He divides his time between Chicago\, Bogotá\, and Havana. \n  \n  \nMartha Rivera\nMartha Cecilia Rivera. Escritora y poetisa colombiana. Su obra incluye Opera de un Hombre que Buscaba (1998)\, La Fatalidad de la Gallina (2009)\, Fantasmas para Noches Largas (2012) y el poemario en preparación Peldaños de Brecht. \nMartha Cecilia Rivera. Colombian writer and poet. Her works include Opera de un Hombre que Buscaba (1998)\, La Fatalidad de la Gallina (2009)\, Fantasmas para Noches Largas (2012) and a forthcoming collection of poetry titled Peldaños de Brecht. \n  \n  \n  \nFebronio Zatarain\nFebronio Zatarain. Inmigró a Estados Unidos en 1989; desde entonces se ha dedicado a promover la literature a través de talleres literarios y de revistas culturales. Su ultimo libro fue Prosario\, incluido en Desarraigos: cuatro poetas latinoamericanos en Chicago\, publicado por Ediciones Vocesueltas. En la actualidad coordina el taller literario del grupo contratiempo. \nFebronio Zatarain. He 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 contratiempo writing workshop. \n  \n  \nRaúl Dorantes\nRaúl Dorantes nació en México en 1968. Emigró a la ciudad de Chicago a finales de 1986. En 2007 publicó un libro de cuentos titulado Vocesueltas. En el mismo año\, a través de la casa editorial de la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México\, Dorantes (en colaboración con su amigo Febronio Zatarain) publicó una colección de ensayos que lleva por nombre Y nos vinimos de mojados. En el terreno de la dramaturgia\, la compañía de teatro Aguijón ha producido dos de sus obras: Hasta los gorriones dejan su nido (en 2008) y El lunes de León Rodríguez (en 2009). En la actualidad Dorantes es profesor de literatura latinoamericana en Saint Augustine College\, de Chicago. \nRaúl Dorantes was born in México in 1968 and came to Chicago in 1986. In 2007 he published a collection of short stories titled Vocesueltas. The same year\, through the publishing arm of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México\, Dorantes (in collaboration with his friend Febronio Zatarain) published a collection of essays titled Y nos vinimos de mojados. The theater company of Teatro Aguijón has produced two of his plays: Hasta los gorriones dejan su nido (in 2008) y El lunes de León Rodríguez (in 2009). Dorantes is currently a professor of Latin American literature at Saint Augustine College in Chicago.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-5/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130514T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130514T220000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20130306T230609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130410T205125Z
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SUMMARY:2013 Benefit: “Talkin’ Blues: a Tribute to Sterling Plumpp”
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to our fourth annual benefit\, Talkin’ Blues\, honoring Sterling Plumpp\, renowned Chicago-based Blues poet\, on May 14. The Guild Literary Complex will pay tribute to his decades-long achievement on stage at Rosa’s Blues Lounge in Logan Square (3420 W. Armitage). Plumpp with be joined by Jeffery Renard Allen\, Duriel Harris\, Tyehimba Jess and Fernando Jones. Plumpp is one of the last original Mississippi Blues artists who came north with his grandparents during the Great Migration. His poetry combines both the red-clay roots of his Mississippi youth and his experiences living for years on Chicago’s West Side with a raw\, emotional intensity of a life fully lived. Tickets are online at guildcomplex.org. Join us at  for an electric evening with food\, music\, and poetry as we celebrate the life of Sterling Plumpp. Doors 6:30 pm\, Program 7:30 pm. \nGet your tickets HERE!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/2013-benefit-talkin-blues-a-tribute-to-sterling-plumpp/
LOCATION:Rosa’s Blues Lounge\, 3420 W. Armitage
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20130117T160307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130318T201453Z
UID:1797-1366227000-1366232400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Telling Our Stories Through the Body"
DESCRIPTION:Join us this April for “Telling Our Stories Through the Body\,” curated by Erika Sánchez and featuring Juana Iris Goergen and Ruben Quesada. More details below. \nErika L. Sánchez\nErika L. Sánchez is a poet and freelance writer living in Chicago. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid\, Spain\, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She is currently the sex and love advice columnist for Cosmopolitan for Latinas and a contributor for The Huffington Post\, NBC Latino\, and others. Her poetry has appeared in Pleiades\, Drunken Boat\, Witness\, Anti-\, Hunger Mountain\, Crab Orchard Review\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Copper Nickel\, and others. She has written book reviews for Kirkus Reviews and her nonfiction has been published in Jezebel\, AlterNet\, and Ms. Magazine. \nJuana Iris Goergen\nJuana Iris Goergen (Puerto Rico). Published poet. Professor of Spanish\,  Latin American and U.S. Latino Literature at DePaul University\, Chicago. As a poet she has published La sal de las brujas (finalist at Letras de Oro and published by Betania 1997) and  La piel a medias (2001)\,  Las Ilusas/Dreamers (Vocesueltas\, 2008) as well as poems published in anthologies: Astillas de luz/Shards of Light (1998)\, Nosotros los otros (1996) Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corazón y la tierra (2001)\, Generación (2001). She is the editor of Susurros para disipar las sombras: Antología poética\,  V International Poetry Festival Poesía en Abril\, Michigan: Erato Ediciones\, 2012. She developed and co-organizes in Chicago\, Poesía en abril\, International Poetry Festival in Spanish\, now in its 6th year. She has two unpublished poetry collections: La celda de Lilith and ContraOda al sueño americano. \nRuben Quesada\nRuben Quesada is the author of Next Extinct Mammal (2011) and Luis Cernuda: Exiled from the Throne of Night (2008). A CantoMundo fellow\, he is the Founding Editor of Codex Journal\, and Poetry Editor at The Cossack Review. His writing has appeared in Cimarron Review\, The American Poetry Review\, The Rumpus\, Rattle\, and Third Coast. He teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-telling-our-stories-through-the-body/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20130117T153741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130401T161001Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Performance Incubator: "Tour Guides"
DESCRIPTION:  \nBeverly Arts Center\nThe Guild Literary Complex is pleased to announce the 2013 remount of “Tour Guides”. Produced in 2010 as part of the Poetry Performance Incubator\, “Tour Guides”\, gives audiences a lyrical tour of the Chicago tourists never see. Originally written by a team of six\, “Tour Guides” has had twelve distinct voices take part in its development since 2010. Restaged at the Beverly Arts Center by noted director Coya Paz (Teatro Luna\, Proyecto Latina\, The Americans)\, “Tour Guides” is an insider’s peek at life in Chicago. From a haunting tour of the city’s “ghost bikes” to a hilarious look at the way neighborhood cultures shape how men pick up women\, to an honest analysis of whether to invite white friends to Southside restaurants\, “Tour Guides” offers an unflinching look at Chicago’s complex cultural landscape. \n“Tour Guides” will be at The Beverly Art Center\, 2407 W 111th St\, on Friday April 5 and Saturday April 6\, 2013 at 7:30 pm and Sunday April 7 at 3:30 pm. Tickets are $16/$13 for BAC members. For additional details\, visit guildcomplex.org. \nCoya Paz\nCoya Paz is poet\, director\, and lip gloss connoisseur. She is the Lead Artist for the Poetry Performance Incubator at The Guild Complex\, a founding member of Proyecto Latina\, and a member of the artistic team at Free Street Theatre. She teaches in The Theatre School at DePaul University.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poetry-performance-incubator-tour-guides/
LOCATION:Beverly Arts Center\, 2407 West 111th Street
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130320T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130320T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20130117T152900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130227T183740Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Poems as Stories\, Stories as Poems
DESCRIPTION:Dawn Herrera\n  \nFeaturing Dawn Herrera Helphand and Denise Ruiz\, Poems as Stories\, Stories as Poems explores the ways that poetry opens up narrative possibilities. At once funny and fierce\, thoughtful and bizarre\, this month’s Palabra Pura\, curated by Coya Paz\, brings verse and storytelling together through the words of two powerful women. \nDawn Herrera Helphand is a poet\, a mother and a full-time lover. Dawn was most recently seen onstage as “Pink Slime” in “Unnatural Spaces\,” the Guild Complex’s performance-poetry incubator. A Mellon Mays Fellow\, Dawn is pursuing a Ph.D. with the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought\, investigating the relationships between freedom and power\, ethics and politics. \nCoya Paz\nDenise Ruiz is a poet\, mother\, and agitator. Denise recently wrote and performed in Unnatural Spaces\, from the Guild Complex’s Poetry-Performance Incubator. She believes in real talk and cute clothes. \nCoya Paz is poet\, director\, and lip gloss connoisseur. She is the Lead Artist for the Poetry Performance Incubator at The Guld Complex\, a founding member of Proyecto Latina\, and a member of the artistic team at Free Street Theatre. She teaches in The Theatre School at DePaul University.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-4/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130309T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130309T220000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20130117T155820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130225T174313Z
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: "A Night of Love"
DESCRIPTION:THE GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX \nand  CHICAGO DANZTHEATRE ENSEMBLE PRESENT: \n“A NIGHT OF LOVE” \n“There is a community of the spirit. Join it\, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise…” \n-Rumi \nThe Guild Literary Complex and Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble are pleased to present “A Night of Love”\, an evening of performance\, poetry\, and visual art inspired by the poetry and mysticism of Rumi.  Join for an evening length event that includes a gallery of visual art performances by members of Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and a poetry reading by poets selected by The Guild Literary Complex. Tickets can be purchased through www.danztheatre.org and are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. All tickets include dessert. \n\nFeatured poets include: Senyo Ador\, Bobby Biedrzycki\, L’Oreal Patrice Jackson\, Teresa Kuruvilla\, and John Sacelli.\nFeatured performers include: Jack Ryan\, Wannapa P-Eubanks & Rachel Javellana\, Ellyzabeth Adler\, Lisa Leszczewicz\, Amy Swanson\, Steve Keller\, Chicago Improv Productions\, and Momar Ndiaye (Klou).\nFeatured visual artists include: David Sarallo\, Joshua Longbrake\, Steve Juras\, Kyle Fletcher\, and Josie Davis.\n\n  \nTeresa\, Bobby\, L’Oreal\, and Senyo\nTeresa Kuruvilla recently graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a B.F.A. in music performance. She recently played Bloom in the Literary Guild Complex’s Unnatural Spaces\, directed by Coya Paz. Other Chicago stage credits include Disconnect (Victory Gardens Theater)\, El Stories: Brown Line (Greenhouse Theater)\, and the Bare Bones Theater Festival (Voice of the City). In addition to acting\, Teresa frequently performs as a vocalist throughout Chicago. She’s a teaching artist for After School Matters\, as well as the International Performing Arts Academy. \nBobby Biedrzycki is a writer\, performer\, poet\, and activist who came to Chicago\, IL from St. Paul\, MN via the Bronx\, NY. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications\, and he has performed on stages and bar stools all over the city and country. Bobby is an adjunct faculty member of the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago and a company member of the Chicago-based storytelling collective 2nd Story. He is also in love with love. \nL’Oreal Patrice Jackson is an Artist rooted in theatre\, music\, movement and writing. Ms. Jackson hails from the east coast and graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts\, where she studied creative writing. In Chicago she received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University and has worked as a professional actor in theatre\, film\, and voiceover. Chicago Theatre credits include; Unnatural Spaces with The Guild Literary Complex Tearing Down the Walls with ETA\, The Final Word with Gorilla Tango\, The Home Project with About Face Theatre\, 365Days/365Plays at Silk Road\, andVenus with The Mill. As an Arts Educator she teaches theatre performance\, improvisation\, storytelling\, and multi-disciplinary art\, She has worked with Steppenwolf\, Columbia College of Chicago\, Changing Worlds\, The Beverly Arts center and Writers Theatre. Ms. Jackson also serves as the Artistic Director for Sankofa Theatre Company and as a youth leader for Soka Gakkai International (SGI) a lay buddhist organization dedicated to peace culture and education. \nSenyo Ador – Writer\, poet and magazine editor\, Senyo_Twilight\, comes with the most unlikely of backgrounds\, being that he was once an electrical engineer. Raised between Accra\, Ghana and Chicago’s western suburbs he was heavily influenced by Nikola Tesla\, the pioneering electrical engineer\, humanitarian\, and showman from Austria. Senyo_Twilight is now using the power in his words to energize audiences the world over to act on causes both locally and remote. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-rumi-poetry-and-dance/
LOCATION:Fulton Street Collective\, 2000 W Fulton S\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20130117T152712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130205T155224Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Weather / Whether"
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex (GLC) continues the eighth year of Palabra Pura with an evening of bilingual poetry titled\, “Whether in Chicago.” Curated by Rafael Franco\, this event asks us to consider what role\, if any\, weather plays\, whether significantly or not\, in writing and how that writing might weather the winds of literary exploration. The event will include poetry in Spanish\, English\, and Spanglish.Featured readers include performance duo Zigtebra and Alex Bonner. \n  \nRafael Franco writes\, acts\, and shoots photography. His collection of short stories – Alaska – received the first annual National Short Story Prize from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in 2006. His next book is titled Las Macrónicas del Temponauta and will be published in the spring by Colección Maravilla on the island. An experimental novel incorporating poetry\, photography\, and metafiction\, Las Macrónicas is the first salvo in an ambitious literary project that jumps across genres through a series of books collectively known as Los IV Libros de la Inmortalidad\, though there are more than four books and everybody dies. He is currently collaborating with fellow Antillean author and performer Rey Andújar on theater projects under the shared moniker: ReHab & Denial. \nZigtebra is a half-sibling performance pop-rock duo whose name comes from a mashup of a Zebra (emily) and a Tiger (joseph).  They met two and half years ago in a dance troop called Pure Magical Love and upon discovering their relatedness\, teamed up to write songs married to performance.  Over the past year their shows have included a Leonard Cohen musical\, “The Red Pony” play\, “The Parrot and the Pirate\,” “Psychic Psyblings” cassette tape release\, and a recent appearance on CAN-TV’s “Chic-A-Go-Go.” \n\n  \nAlex Bonner is a Chicagoan. His writing can be seen on walls all over town but also in some of its stranger printing houses\, including just recently The Deadline and Back to Print. Alex was the 2009 Windy City Story Slam Champion and won the 2010 National Storyslam people’s choice award. Alex can be seen reading his work aloud for several Chicago–based reading series such as Second Story and The Moth. Alex also spent a massive amount of loan money at Columbia College Chicago where he learned the basic format of how to write screenplays; ever since\, he has been the head writer and co-founder of Bailout Pictures Chicago. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-weather-whether/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20130107T183702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130107T183702Z
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SUMMARY:PALABRA PURA: "One Poet / One Poem"
DESCRIPTION:PALABRA PURA: “ONE POET / ONE POEM”\nWednesday\, Janurary 16\, 7:30pm\, FREE\nLa Bruquena Restaurant (Upstairs)\, 2726 W. Division\n \nThe Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the eighth season of PALABRA PURA with “One Poet / One Poem”. \n \nJoin us as past readers retake the stage to share their work in Spanish\, English\, or a combination of both. Guest curators for the 2013 season will be on hand to announce their plans for the upcoming year. \n \nGuest curators for 2013 include: \nRakael Franco Steeves\nCoya Paz\nErika L. Sánchez \nRaúl Dorantes\nJohnny Vázquez Paz \nSandra Posadas\nIrasema González\nFrancisco Aragón \nand Miguel López Lemus\n \nReaders include: \nCristina Correa\nRaúl Dorantes\nJorge Frisancho\nJuana Goergen\nIrasema Gónzalez \nNora León\nMiguel López Lemus\nOlivia Maciel\nYolanda Nieves \nJennifer Patiño \nSandra Posadas\nMartin Rubio\nXenia Ruiz\nJacob Saenz\nErika L. Sánchez\nLuis Tubens\nRik Vázquez\n \nNEVER BEEN TO A PLABRA PURA?!\nVisit our YouTube page to see past readers. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-one-poet-one-poem/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Select a Country:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121128T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20120725T201231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20121126T145807Z
UID:1559-1354131000-1354136400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: "Rooster Footed Devils"
DESCRIPTION:This installment of Palabra Pura will explore the effect on individuals and communities of not fitting in to preconceived Latino identities. It is curated by Jennifer Patiño and featuring poets Beatriz Ruiz\, Anthony Michael Cooremans and RIK Vazquez. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nBeatriz J Ruiz was born and raised in Chicago and Guanajuato.  She is a writer by vocation\, not profession.  She is not a gold coin.  She has always tried to find home but instead has chosen to carry it on her back. She is an osicona\, a cabrona.  She is the boxer’s swan song. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Michael Cooremans was born and raised in San Antonio\, Texas. He writes poetry and short essays about modern society and history.  Much of his work focuses on racial ambiguity in increasingly diverse times. His is a Aydos Learning national award winner in poetry and the current Grand Slam poetry champion for Mental Graffiti – Chicago. Anthony is currently working on a project entitled Field Trips\, featuring stories commentary on what excites us as children.\n\nRIK Vazquez is a spoken word artist and educator. At the age of eighteen he coached the Steinmetz Poetry team which competed in Chicago’s “Louder Than A Bomb” youth poetry slam\, the team won and went on to compete on a national level. The teams RIK has coached in successive years have met all personal and educational goals they have set\, several going on to college as Creative Writing and English majors. In 2009\, 2011\, and 2012 he represented Chicago at the adult National Poetry Slam. In 2010 RIK became a member of Marc Smith’s Speak Easy poetry ensemble. Over the summer of 2011 he teamed up with Patricia Smith and Billy Tuggle and relaunched the traveling poetry collective known as the Four Star Poets. The only things he does better than writing poems is hunting lions and riding dolphins.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-2/
LOCATION:La Bruquena\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20120610T235059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T172631Z
UID:1416-1351450800-1351458000@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:"Unnatural Spaces" - a new project from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/unnatural-spaces-a-new-project-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator-2/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121027T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20120404T135512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T172724Z
UID:1103-1351364400-1351371600@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1103/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121026T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121026T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20120404T135402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T172805Z
UID:1102-1351278000-1351278000@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1102/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121024T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20121017T181950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20121017T182616Z
UID:1702-1351107000-1351112400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:Congratulations to the 2012 Prose Awards Finalists!
DESCRIPTION:Congratulations to following finalists of the 2012 Prose Awards  (fiction and non-fiction)!\n  \n  \nFiction \nClaire Bartlett \nJason Lee Brown \nSahar Mustafah \n\n \nNon-Fiction \nSuzanne Scanlon \nIngrida Martinkus \nJane Hertenstein \n  \n  \nThis year’s finalists were chosen by judges Amina Gautier and David Lazar. Please join us as we reveal the winners on October 24\, 7:30 pm\, at the Chopin Theatre\, 1543 West Division Street. Two cash prizes of $250 are awarded to the top writer in each category\, and surprises for runners-up are in store!
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/congratulations-to-the-2012-prose-awards-finalists/
LOCATION:Chopin Theatre\, 1543 West Division Street\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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SUMMARY:2012 Prose Awards for Short Fiction and Non-Fiction - Recognition Event
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex’s Prose Awards (short fiction and non-fiction) help to surface emerging and mid-career prose writers and bring them to the public’s attention through an open call for submissions and judged competition. Past judges have included luminaries such as Stuart Dybek\, Alex Kotlowitz\, Antonya Nelson\, and Sam Weller. On October 24\, we will hold the Prose Awards’ final event: a showcase reading of this year’s semi-finalists\, ending with the live announcement of the winner for the Fiction and Non-Fiction categories\, both of whom will receive a cash prize of $250. This year’s semi-finalists and winners will be chosen by judges Amina Gautier and David Lazar (non-fiction). The recognition event is to take place at The Chopin Theater\, 1543 West Division Street\,  Chicago\, IL. \nAbout the Judges \nAmina Gautier (fiction judge) Gautier follows in the footsteps of the late nineteenth century African American intellectual (Chesnutt\, DuBois\, Harper\, and Hopkins) who merged both critical and creative talents. Her background as a scholar of 19th Century American literature and\, more generally\, African American literature combines with her training as a fiction writer such that she is both a critic and a creative writer\, fully engaged in the analysis and creation of literature. More than sixty of her short stories have been published\, appearing in Antioch Review\, Iowa Review\, The Kenyon Review\, North American Review\, Pleiades\, and Southern Review among others in addition to being anthologized in Best African American Fiction\, Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years\, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best\, 2008\, The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Writers on Forerunners in Fiction\, and Voices. Her fiction has been honored with the William Richey Prize\, the Jack Dyer Award\, the Danahy Fiction Award\, the Schlafly Microfiction Award\, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Award. Her short story collection At-Risk won the Flannery O’Connor Award and is published by University of Georgia Press. \nDavid Lazar (non-fiction judge) Lazar’s books include The Body of Brooklyn and Truth in Nonfiction (both Iowa)\, Powder Town (Pecan Grove); Michael Powell: Interviews and Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher (both Mississippi). Forthcoming is Essaying the Essay from Welcome Table Press. His essays and prose poems have appeared widely in anthologies such as Understanding the Essay\, An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Sentence)\, and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America\, and magazines such as Gulf Coast\, Black Clock\, Sentence\, Denver Quarterly\, Best of the Prose Poem\, Southwest Review\, etc. and five of his essays have been “Notable Essays of the Year” according to Best American Essays. He created the undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in Nonfiction writing at Ohio University\, and directed the creation of the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika\, now in its tenth year. \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/2012-prose-awards-for-short-fiction-and-non-fiction/
LOCATION:Chopin Theatre\, 1543 W. Division (near Milwaukee and Ashland)\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121021T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121021T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20120610T234901Z
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SUMMARY:"Unnatural Spaces" - a new project from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/unnatural-spaces-a-new-project-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121020T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20120404T135252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T172933Z
UID:1101-1350759600-1350766800@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1101/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121020T163000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20120912T173012Z
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SUMMARY:Crafting Castoffs into "Unnatural Spaces"
DESCRIPTION:As part of Chicago Artists Month\, the Guild and Voice of the City will host a workshop featuring the Set Designer and Costume Designer for the Poetry Performance Incubator show “Unnatural Spaces” (playing Fridays\, Saturdays and Sundays in October). Because the show’s theme is the environmental complexities of urban living\, as part of the creative development process\, the designers are using recycled and re-purposed materials to create the set\, props and costumes. In this workshop they will show and tell the methods they’ve used to harvest and manipulate the material.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/crafting-castoff-into-unnatural-spaces/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121019T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20120404T135156Z
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UID:1100-1350673200-1350680400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:“Unnatural Spaces” – a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS** \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/1100/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121017T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20120725T201659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20121017T203754Z
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura - "Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets"
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex continues its seventh year of its Palabra Pura bilingual poetry series with “Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets” on October 17\, 2012. The event is curated by Dr. Jochy Herrera and features poets from contratiempo magazine. The event will include poetry in Spanish\, English and a combination of both. Featured readers will include Jorge Montiel\, Silvia Goldman\, and Santiago Weksler. \n  \n\nABOUT CONTRATIEMPO\nAs a result of the literary and cultural needs of Spanish speaking writers of Chicago\, Contratiempo was born in 2003. Since its beginnings\, Contratiempo sought to preserve\, enrich\, and promote Latin American art and thought in Spanish through the pages of a monthly print and online magazine that\, in a few weeks\, will celebrate it s 100th consecutive issue! \n  \nABOUT THE CURATOR\n \nJochy Herrera has been a part of Contratiempo magazine since its beginnings\, and has served on its board of directors and editorial board. He is a native of the Dominican Republic and author of two books: Extrasistoles and Seducir los sentidos. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \nABOUT THE READERS\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJorge Montiel was born in Paterson\, New Jersey\, in 1986. He spent much of his life in Puebla\, Mexico\, where he attended the Palafoxian Seminary of Puebla. He arrived in Chicago in 2007 and currently studies philosophy and Spanish at Northeastern Illinois University. His poems have been published in the anthology En la 18 a la 1: Escritores  \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSantiago Weksler has not returned to Peru since he came to Chicago in 2001. He earns his living as a dog-walker. He is a photographer and a poet. He lives in Pilsen with his cat Danico and his friend Elena.de Contratiempo en Chicago (On 18th Street at 1 am: Contratiempo Writers in Chicago) \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSilvia Goldman was born in Uruguay. She moved to the US eleven years ago and recently relocated to the Chicago area. She has published poems as well scholarly articles in literary journals and online anthologies such as Maldoror: Revista de la ciudad de Montevideo; Revista de escritura & poéticas 7de7; Small Stations: Anthology of Poets; Rilce: Revista de filología hispánica; Inti: Revista de literatura hispánica\, and Rassegna Iberistica. In 2008 she published her first book of poetry entitled Cinco movimientos del llanto (Ediciones Hermes Criollo). In 2010 she received her PhD in Hispanic Studies from Brown University. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Romance Languages at Boston College and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at North Central College. Her research interests include Latin American poetry and poetics\, testimonial literature and film\, Performance Studies\, Transatlantic Studies\, and Memory Studies.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-migrating-words-contratiempo-poets/
LOCATION:La Bruquena restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, 2nd floor\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121014T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T073527
CREATED:20120610T234601Z
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UID:1410-1350241200-1350248400@guildcomplex.org
SUMMARY:"Unnatural Spaces" - a new show from the Poetry Performance Incubator
DESCRIPTION:Poetry meets the stage in the new show by the Guild’s Poetry Performance Incubator. Collaboratively written by an ensemble of poets and performers\, this piece tackles the humor\, outrage and other mixed feelings of thinking about the environment while living in a city. Shows on Fridays\, Saturdays & Sundays\, October 5th – 28th at 7pm.\n \n**CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS**  Note: the Oct. 14 show is a special event – Unnatural Spaces: A Performance and Conversation – with The Public Square. More information available here. \n \nLearn more about the origins and history of the Incubator. And follow musings from the cast at work on the Unnatural Spaces blog\, facebook page and twitter feed. \nUnnatural Spaces is being developed and presented in partnership with Voice of the City at the new Hairpin Arts Center\, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Artistic and Cultural Diversity Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/unnatural-spaces-a-new-show-from-the-poetry-performance-incubator-3/
LOCATION:Hairpin Arts Center\, 2800 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Performance Incubator
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121014T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121014T153000
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CREATED:20120710T194900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120918T215320Z
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SUMMARY:Teaching Artist Showcase: "Teaching in the Neighborhood"
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex presents a sampling of teaching artists who educate students in various\, diverse Chicago neighborhoods with its Teaching Artist Showcase series in collaboration with Woman Made Gallery\, now celebrating its 20th Anniversary with its 20 Neighborhoods project.\n\nThis is the second event in our series\, and it will featurewriters who teach in middle- and high-schools\, hospitals\, and other community spaces. They’ll share work done with\, inspired by or in contrast to their teaching and students and participate in an audience discussionabout writing\, teaching and learning. There will also be anopen mic\, and possibly some special guests as well – some of the students themselves!\n\nFeatured Artists \n\nAlice George‘s collection of poetry – This Must Be The Place – was published by Mayapple Press in 2008. Her work has also been published in magazines such as Field\, Diagram\, Quarter After Eight\, New Orleans Review and Sentence\, as well as in eight anthologies. She teaches poetry to students in K-12 classrooms independently and through Columbia College’s Project AIM. An article about her arts integration work with 5th graders appears in the current issue of Teaching Artist Journal. Alice is also an instructor within the University of Chicago’s Graham School Certificate in Creative Writing program\, and served as Faculty Advisor for the current Triquarterly issue\, published by Northwestern University. A native of Kentucky\, she lives and works in Evanston\, and is married to sound and installation artist Shawn Decker. Painting is her next frontier; more information about her writing\, teaching and art can be found at www.alicegeorge.org. \nEric Elshtain is a homemaker and poet. Through the non-profit foundation Snow City Arts\, he is the poet-in-residence at John H. Stroger\, Jr. Hospital where he conducts poetry and art workshops with patients ranging in age from six to 21. He has a PhD from the University of Chicago’s Committee on the History of Culture and he has been published in a wide variety of domestic and international journals\, in print and on-line; journals such as McSweeney’s\, Notre Dame Review\, Skald\, Fact-Simile\, the Denver Quarterly\, FIELD\, American Letters & Commentary\, New American Writing\, &c. He is the editor of the on-line poetry chapbook press Beard of Bees. \n  \nSusanna Lang’s first collection of poems\, Even Now\, was published in 2008 by The Backwaters Press. A chapbook\, Two by Two\, was released in October 2011 from Finishing Line Press\, and a new collection\, Tracing the Lines\, will be published by Brick Road Poetry Press in winter 2012. She has published original poems and essays\, and translations from the French\, in such journals as Little Star\, New Letters\, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review\, The Green Mountains Review\, The Baltimore Review\, Kalliope\, Southern Poetry Review\, World Literature Today\, Chicago Review\, New Directions\, and Jubilat. Book publications include translations of Words in Stone and The Origin of Language\, both by Yves Bonnefoy. She lives with her husband and son in Chicago\, where she teaches in the Chicago Public Schools. \n  \nToni Asante Lightfoot is a native of Washington\, DC. She has been writing\nand performing around the Western Hemisphere for 20 years. She is the\ncoeditor of Dre of AWord: a Tia Chucha Press anthology and edoti the It’s\nYour Mug 15th Anniversary Anthology. She was the director of writing\nprograms at Young Chicago Authors. When the economy turned she decided to\nhave the most mellow midlife crisis ever by going back to school for\nmassage therapy and acupuncture. She is also currently trying desperately\nto raise a 3 year old child and keep her writing from evolving around that. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/teaching-artist-showcase-teaching-in-the-neighborhood/
LOCATION:Woman Made Gallery\, 685 N. Milwaukee\, Chicago\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching Artist Showcase
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:info@guildcomplex.org
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