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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 
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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: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: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: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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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
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