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SUMMARY:Poetry: Work Is Love Made Visible
DESCRIPTION:Work Is Love Made Visible will feature visiting poet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and include Chicago authors Quaraysh Ali Lansana and Eduardo Arocho for an evening of working class poetry and observations. Bring your poetry on the theme to share in the open mic that starts the event! \nAbout the authors: \nJeanetta Calhoun Mish is a writer\, scholar\, and professor\, and the editor of Mongrel Empire Press. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies with an emphasis on contemporary American poetry and working-class studies. Her poetry collection\, Work Is Love Made Visible\, published by West End Press in March 2009\, won three major awards in 2010. She comes to us on a reading tour from New Mexico. \nQuraysh Ali Lansana’s books of poetry include cockroach children: corner poems and street psalms (1995)\, Southside Rain (2000)\, They Shall Run (2004) and Mystic Turf (2012). Lansana received the 1999 Henry Blakely Award (presented by Gwendolyn Brooks) and the 2000 Poet of the Year Award from Chicago’s Black Book Fair. He is co-editor of Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology (2006) and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (2002). \nEduardo Arocho has been writing and performing poetry since 1992. He has been featured in many venues in Chicago including Citiverse Poetry Series at the Sultzer Library and The Institute for Puerto Rican Arts and Culture\, among others. His poetry has been published in OPEN FIST: Anthology of Young Illinois Poets\, by Tia Chucha Press (1993)\, POWERLINES: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex\, by Tia Chucha Press (2000) and EL CENTRO JOURNAL\, Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, Hunter College New York\, NY\, (2001). His recently published book is Hot Wings. \nThis is one of two Chicago readings featuring Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and is co-sponsored by Chicago Consortium For Working-Class Studies and Guild Complex.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poetry-work-is-love-made-visible/
LOCATION:Jak’s Tap\, 901 W. Jackson\, Chicago\, IL\, 60607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry: What's Class Got To Do With It??!!
DESCRIPTION:A reading on the theme of “working class poetry\,” this is a program of Occupy Rogers Park Chicago and is co-sponsored by Guild Complex and Chicago Consortium For Working-Class Studies. Featured readers include poet and scholar Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and poet Adam Gottlieb. An open mic begins the program\, so bring your own poetry related to the theme. And if you can\, bring a dish to share at the potluck. \nAbout the readers: \nPoet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a writer\, scholar\, and professor\, and is editor of Mongrel Empire Press. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies with an emphasis on contemporary American poetry and working-class studies. Her poetry collection\, Work Is Love Made Visible\, published by West End Press in March 2009\, won three major awards in 2010. She comes to us on a reading tour from New Mexico. \nAdam Gottlieb is a graduate of Hampshire College and accomplished slam poet featured in the film Louder than a Bomb. Adam curates the weekly open mic “Mondays at the Royal Café” in Rogers Park. For Gottlieb\, poetry is about communication and connecting with others. Slam\, he says\, is just the venue to bring people together\, but it’s not as important as the poetry itself.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/poetry-whats-class-got-to-do-with-it/
LOCATION:Lunt Lake Co-op Apartments (Community Room)\, 1138 W Lunt\, Chicago\, IL\, 60626\, United States
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SUMMARY:Applied Words: Re-Built: Writers on Architecture and the Urban Plan
DESCRIPTION:If urban design is the language of the city\, where is the story – and who tells it? In “Re-Built: Writers on Architecture and the Urban Plan” the Guild Literary Complex presents Chicago authors examining human-scale relationships with the built environment\, the history of Homan Square\, and what comes next. This reading is part of Open House Chicago\, a program of the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Stop by for stories built brick by brick! \nThe event will featuring readings by Nwaji Nefahito\, Sandra Seaton\, and Benjamin van Loon\, along with students from Henry Ford Academy: Power House High. An open-mic starts the program. Sign-up for the open-mic begins at 1:30 pm. \nThe venue\, a 14-story brick tower in a Neo-Classical style\, was once part of the world’s largest commercial building\, a 3.3 million square foot warehouse for the old Sears Roebuck and Company. \nApplied Words: “Re-Built” is programmed in partnership with Open House Chicago\, a program of the Chicago Architecture Foundation\, and is generously underwritten by the Foundation for Homan Square. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \n \nSandra Seaton is the author of twelve plays. Her libretto for the song cycle From the Diary of Sally Hemings\, a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom\, is available as a CD from White Pine Music and as a score from Hal Leonard. Famed actor Ruby Dee appeared in a 1998 Ann Arbor production of The Bridge Party\, Seaton’s first play. In 2009\, A Chance Meeting (adapted from the short story by Chicago author Cyrus Colter) premiered at the University of Michigan starring acclaimed Met tenor George Shirley. A recent play\, Music History\, set at the University of Illinois at Champaign in 1963\, focuses on African American college students from Chicago and their responses to the struggle for civil rights in the South. In 2012 Seaton received the Mark Twain Award “for distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature” from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. \n  \nBenjamin van Loon is a writer living in Chicago\, IL. He is the co-founder of Anobium (an experimental literary publication); a former staff writer for Green Building & Design magazine; a runner-up for the Calvino Prize for Fiction; and is presently participating in the Communications\, Media\, and Theater graduate program at Northeastern Illinois University. \n  \n  \nNwaji Nefahito was born and raised in the Lawndale district.  She currently resides on the West Side of Chicago\, where she is a longtime community activist. Ms. Harris is also a baker and an African dance performer.  Her West Side roots have continued to influence her perspective on contemporary life\, which has also been enriched by her extensive travels throughout the world\, including visits to West Africa\, Egypt and Haiti. Ms. Harris attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and Southern University at New Orleans. She has the ability of a lifelong Westsider to reflect on the ways things have changed in Chicago beyond downtown and the lakefront. \nPARTNER LINKS:
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/applied-words-re-built-writers-on-architecture-and-the-urban-plan/
LOCATION:The Original Sears Tower\, 930 S. Homan Ave.
CATEGORIES:Applied Words
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SUMMARY:2013 Prose Awards
DESCRIPTION:Every fall we recognize outstanding short fiction and non-fiction from across the State of Illinois and award $250 cash prizes to one outstanding writer in each category. Please join us on October 23\, 7:30 pm\, at the Chopin Theater\, located at 1543 W. Division Street\, as we celebrate the authors at a special reading and award event featuring all six finalists. \nAdmission: $7 general and $5 students \n  \nNON-FICTION FINALISTS \nBenjamin Capps for “Pigs\, Dogs\, and Guns” \nJH Palmer for “How to Rescue a Feral Cat” \nGina P. Vozenilek for “Waxwing” \n  \nFICTION FINALISTS \nJoseph Arzac for “Legacy” \nRebecca Keller for “Meals of a Lifetime” \nCyn Vargas “That Girl” \n  \nThe 2013 Prose Awards were judged by Cristina Henríquez (fiction) and Miles Harvey (non-fiction). This year’s Prose Awards is sponsored in part by Wicker Park Bucktown\, SSA #33. WPB SSA#33 is administered by the WPB Chamber of Commerce. \n  \nABOUT THE FINALISTS \n  \nJoe Arzac is a strategic planning professional by day and a writer by night. He earned a law degree from the University of Chicago and was a finalist in the Rosemary Sazonoff Writing Contest. He is currently hard at work on a novel\, an excerpt of which is titled “Legacy.” \n  \nBenjamin Capps studied theatre\, coming to Chicago in 1999 to pursue stage\, music and film.  He has produced seven short-films and several works on stage under the moniker\, The Inner Below.  Benjamin also penned a collection of non-fiction works based on childhood traumas\, of which his current piece is a part. \n  \nRebecca Keller is an artist and writer. Her art is shown internationally\, including next month at Chicago’s MCA. Her artwork and essays are featured in “Excavating History” (Stepsister Press). Her fiction has appeared in several literary journals\, and earned the Joan Jakobsen Award (Wesleyan) and the Betty Gabehart prize. \n  \nJ.H. Palmer co-produces the live lit series That’s All She Wrote\, and has appeared at a number of live lit venues including: Story Club\, Guts & Glory\, 2nd Story\, SKALD\, Mortified\, WRITE CLUB! and The Moth GrandSLAM. She is pursuing a Certificate in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Chicago. \n  \nCyn Vargas holds an MFA in Creative Writing- Fiction from Columbia College Chicago.  She received two top citations from Glimmer Train in their Short Story Award for New Writers contests. Her work’s appeared in Word Riot\, Curbside Splendor\, and elsewhere.  Writing’s her way of legally exposing herself in public. \n  \nGina P. Vozenilek has an MFA from Northwestern and MA from U Iowa. One of her essays won the 2012 AWP Intro Journal Award and another was nominated for a Pushcart and was named Best of the Net by Sundress Publications. “Waxwing” is from her thesis\, a collection of essays about place and identity. \n  \nPARTNER LINKS: \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n(Wicker Park Bucktown SSA #33) \n \n  \n(Chopin Theatre)
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/2013-prose-awards/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Letras Latinas
DESCRIPTION:We very pleased to be partnering with Poetry Foundation and Red Hen Press for this month’s Palabra Pura. \nCelebrate the inaugural winner and judge of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize. Judge Orlando Ricardo Menes directs the creative writing program at the University of Notre Dame. His third full-length collection\, Fetish\, won the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in 2013 by the University of Nebraska Press. Winner Dan Vera is a writer\, editor and literary historian in Washington\, DC. In addition to his winning volume\, Speaking Wiri Wiri\, he is the author of The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (Beothuk Books\, 2008). A booksigning and reception follow. \nThis is a Poetry Foundation event co-sponsored with Letras Latinas\, Red Hen Press\, Guild Complex\, and the Ragdale Foundation.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-letras-latinas/
LOCATION:The Poetry Foundation\, 61 W Superior St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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