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SUMMARY:Book Release [&DANCE!] Party: Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Happy birthday\, Quraysh!\nAnd\, happy book release to Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart\, whose newest book\, The Walmart Republic\, will be launched this fall. \nTo celebrate in style (as the Guild always does)\, we will be hosting a birthday and book launch on Saturday\, September 13\, 2014 at the University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse (9th floor) from 7:00–10:00 p.m. \nThe evening will feature Angela Jackson and Elise Paschen\, as well as performances by avery r. young\, In The Spirit\, and Team REBIRTH; and readings from The Walmart Republic by Ali Lansana and Stewart—all hosted by Mario Smith. Books will be for sale by Women and Children First. \nVocalo DJ Ayana Contreras will facilitate dancing and good times\, with (all kinds of spectacular) beverages donated by Tastings.com. Attendees can also anticipate snacks and cake. \nThis event is co-presented with the Logan Center for the Arts and Mongrel Empire Press; and is sponsored in part by the Chicago Center for Working Class Studies. \nBooks can be purchased at the event thanks to our friends at Women & Children First. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nQuraysh Ali Lansana is author of eight poetry books\, three textbooks\, a children’s book\, editor of eight anthologies\, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute and the Red Earth MFA Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma City University. He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2011\, where he was also Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry\, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers & Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. His most recent books include The Walmart Republic w/ Christopher Stewart (Mongrel Empire Press\, September 2014) and reluctant minivan (Living Arts Press\, May 2014). \n  \nChristopher Stewart’s poetry has appeared in numerous poetry journals and the anthology\, Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex. His collaborations with music artists include his work with the group Circadian Rhythm\, which was featured on the audio anthology\, A Snake in the Heart: Poems and Music by Chicago Spoken Word Performers. He is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SPECIAL GUESTS\n \nAyana Contreras is passionate about sound and color. She currently hosts and produces a show called “Reclaimed Soul” on Vocalo 91.1 fm (a sister station of WBEZ). Ayana additionally produces “The Barber Shop Show”\, a community affairs show that broadcasts live from a Barber Shop in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. She’s also a DJ and music historian. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAngela Jackson earned a BA at Northwestern University\, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize\, and an MA in Latin American and Caribbean studies at the University of Chicago. In Chicago\, she became a prominent member of the Organization of Black American Culture. Jackson’s honors include a Pushcart Prize\, TriQuarterly’s Daniel Curley Award\, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award\, and grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Jackson lives in Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \nElise Paschen is the author of Bestiary (Red Hen Press\, 2009); Infidelities (Story Line Press)\, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize\, and Houses: Coasts (Oxford: Sycamore Press). She is editor of The New York Times best-selling anthology Poetry Speaks to Children and Poetry Speaks Who I Am (Sourcebooks) as well as co-editor of Poetry Speaks\, among others. The Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America from 1988 until 2001\, she is the co-founder of Poetry in Motion\, a nation-wide program which places poetry posters in subways and buses. Paschen was the featured Illinois poet at the National Book Festival sponsored by the Library of Congress in September 2006. She currently serves as Poet Laureate of Three Oaks\, Michigan. A former Frances Allen Fellow of the Newberry Library\, Dr. Paschen teaches in the MFA Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \nMario Smith (emcee)is a Chicago poet\, educator\, activist and radio chat show host. Mario has performed his poetry in the Chicagoland area and the US for over twenty years\, including Steppenwolf Theater\, MCA Chicago\, Old Town School of Folk Music\, the Chicago Cultural Center\, and many more. He has written essays for Chicago’s public radio affiliate WBEZ\, appeared on Voice of America\, and provided Election Night 2008 analysis for BBC Devon. He currently hosts News From the Service Entrance on WHPK 88.5FM. \n  \n  \n  \n  \navery r. young is a writer\, performer and teaching artist. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and his works have been published in AIMPrint\, Callaloo\, Spaces Between Us and many other anthologies and periodicals. He is also featured on Urban Audiology: The Art of Audio Truism and other compilations. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nChicago-based storytelling Performance Duo In the Spirit combine the talents of storyteller\, Emily Lansana and vocalist\, Zahra Baker to weave story & song into soulful engaging performance. Emily and Zahra share the belief that creative expression can be a positive force of change. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTeam REBIRTH a poetry ensemble of high-school-age Chicago teens\, were featured in the 2014 ‘Louder Than A Bomb’\, Individual and Team Competition. \n  \nOUR SPONSORS AND CO-PRESENTERS\n  \n  \n \n  \nThe Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts advances arts practice\, inquiry\, and presentation at the University of Chicago\, and fosters meaningful collaboration and cultural engagement at the university\, on the south side\, and in the city of Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMongrel Empire Press was established in 2007 with a mission to publish well-written\, thoughtfully-considered works across generic and disciplinary boundaries. \nMongrel Empire Press chose its moniker because it celebrates the place—Oklahoma—where the press resides. Oklahoma and Oklahomans are glorious admixtures: the land\, the flora and fauna (as evidenced by the Crosstimbers)\, and the people are advantageously heterogenous. Our mongrel nation is not perfect\, but they believe that its myriad possibilities point the way to a sustainable and humane future. They will honor their commitment to Oklahoma by actively searching out great writing by Oklahomans. \n  \n  \n  \nThe mission of the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies (CCWCS) is to bring together individuals from multiple institutions to promote economic justice and to address class relationships.  CCWCS’ participants are guided by their commitment to “make class visible” and to strengthen the political\, economic and moral power of working women and men. The Center is administered by the School of Labor and Employment Relations of the University of Illinois\, and its steering committee includes faculty from seven Chicago-area universities. \n  \n  \nA popular and free website from the Beverage Tasting Institute. The Beverage Testing Institute was founded in 1981 with the objective of producing fair and impartial wine reviews for consumers. Today\, this philosophy still holds true. Over the years\, their buying guides have appeared in the Wine Enthusiast\, Restaurant Hospitality\, The New Yorker Magazine\, Wine & Spirits\, International Wine Review\, Epicurious.com\, All About Beer\, and many others. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/book-release-quraysh-ali-lansana-and-christopher-stewart/
LOCATION:Logan Arts Center\, 915 E 60th St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dispatches from Kapittel
DESCRIPTION:The Guild is sending six Chicago writers to the Kapittel International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech in Stavenger\, Norway as a part of our ongoing work with writers living in exile and advocating for freedom of speech. \nOur six attendees are blogging on their experiences at GuildDispatches.tumblr.com. \nAbout the Attendees:\nAdam Gottlieb is a poet/teaching-artist from Chicago. He got into spoken word at age 14 via the Young Chicago Authors teen poetry slam festival Louder Than a Bomb\, and was featured in the documentary film by the same name. He recently graduated from Hampshire College\, where he studied poetry and critical pedagogy. He seeks to promote the use of poetry as a medium for dialogue\, self-expression\, and positive social change. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nL’Oréal Patrice Jackson is an artist rooted in theatre\, music\, movement and writing. As an arts educator she teaches theatre performance\, improvisation\, storytelling\, and multi-disciplinary art. She has worked with Steppenwolf\, Writers Theatre\, and Columbia College Chicago\, among others. She serves as a youth leader for Soka Gakkai International (SGI)\, a lay Buddhist organization dedicated to peace culture and education. She is the Education Associate at About Face Theatre\, a production company with a focus on lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, queer\, and ally arts. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSahar Mustafah writes about “the others”—Arabs in the United States and abroad—who are often deemed strange and disparate from the larger racial community. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals including Great Lakes Review\, Word Riot\, Flyleaf\, Hair Trigger\, and Chicago Literati\, and she’s performed with 2nd Story Chicago. She’s the recipient of a Pushcart nomination. She is a teacher and co-founder of Bird’s Thumb\, an online literary journal devoted to new and emerging voices. She received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nErika L. Sánchez is a Fulbright Scholar\, CantoMundo Fellow\, and winner of the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Pleiades\, Witness\, Anti-\, Hunger Mountain\, Crab Orchard Review\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Copper Nickel\, Boston Review\, “Latino USA” on NPR\, and is forthcoming in diode and Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation (Penguin 2015). Her nonfiction appears in The Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, Rolling Stone\, Salon\, NBC News\, Cosmopolitan\, and many others. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nM. Quinn Stifler received a B.A. in Creative Writing and Women’s & Gender Studies at DePaul University. Stifler has worked with Threshold\, DePaul’s student-run literature and arts journal\, and is a co-founder and editor of No Assholes Literary Magazine. Stifler was a finalist for the 2013 Gwendolyn Brooks Open-Mic Poetry Award\, and regularly participates in and organizes house readings around Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n John Rich is the Director of Guild Literary Complex\, a cross-cultural presenting organization in Chicago celebrating 25 years of supporting diverse\, divergent\, and emerging voices. John is a founding member of Chicago Writers House and Chicago Book Expo. He earned an MFA in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, where he taught writing and creativity for several years. He is a recipient of the Vaclav Havel Fellowship in Playwriting from Western Michigan University and a Ragdale Foundation residency in writing. He co-founded the collaborative theater group Attention Deficit Drama (1997-2003) and has performed with Every House Has a Door. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/dispatches-from-kapittel/
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Calling Home
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly bilingual reading series in September features Ana Castillo and Paul Martinez Pompa and is curated by Cristina Correa. The event is hosted and co-presented by the Poetry Foundation. \nStates Correa\, “Across generations\, Latino writers and their constellation of experiences and creative identities have found a home in Chicago. For many\, home is a constant migration between places and memories. For others\, home is a space in which their productions are collected and honored: museums\, bookcases\, stages. Home is often a multi-faceted location\, both physical and spiritual\, that occurs when we can recognize ourselves in it. It is a place that facilitates growth and exchange. As a powerhouse of intellectual honesty in fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, Chicago-born and raised Ana Castillo provides the illuminating force for this conversation with home. Her fearless cultural and linguistic presence has provided a source of home for other writers interested in maintaining honest and critical dialogue with the places they come from.” \nAbout the Artists:\nAna Castillo is a celebrated poet\, novelist\, short story writer\, essayist\, editor\, playwright\, translator and independent scholar. Castillo was born and raised in Chicago. She has contributed to periodicals and on-line venues (Salon and Oxygen) and national magazines\, includingMore and the Sunday New York Times. Castillo’s writings have been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations and publications. Among her award winning\, best sellling titles: novels include So Far From God\, The Guardians and Peel My Love like an Onion\, among other poetry: I Ask the Impossible. Her novel\, Sapogonia was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has been profiled and interviewed on National Public Radio and the History Channel and was a radio-essayist with NPR in Chicago. Ana Castillo is editor of La Tolteca\, an arts and literary ‘zine dedicated to the advancement of a world without borders and censorship and on the advisory board of the new American Writers Museum in D.C. Castillo held the first Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Endowed Chair at DePaul University\, The Martin Luther King\, Jr Distinguished Visiting Scholar post at M.I.T. and was the Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College in Utah in 2012\, among other teaching posts throughout her extensive career. Ana Castillo holds an M.A from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D.\, University of Bremen\, Germany in American Studies and an honorary doctorate from Colby College. She received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her first novel\, The Mixquiahuala Letters. Her other awards include a Carl Sandburg Award\, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry. She was also awarded a 1998 Sor Juana Achievement Award by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago. Dr. Castillo’s So Far From God and Loverboys are two titles on the banned book list controversy with the TUSD in Arizona. 2013 Recipient of the American Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Prize to an independent scholar. Dr. Castillo will hold the Lund-Gil Endowed Chair at Dominican University (IL) in 2014. \n  \n  \nPaul Martinez Pompa is the author of My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press 2009) and is a recent recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. He teaches composition and poetry at Triton College and lives in Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Curator:\nCristina Correa is a VONA/Voices writer and a Midwestern Voices and Visions awardee. Her work has recently been published in TriQuarterly\, broadcast on National Public Radio’s Latino USA\, and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. She is an MA candidate in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Our Co-Presenter:\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Poetry Foundation\, publisher of Poetry magazine\, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-curated-by-cristina-correa/
LOCATION:Poetry Foundation\, 61 West Superior Street
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SUMMARY:I Come To Your Country\, Name Me: Asian/American Author Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The Guild and the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will present three Asian authors on Wednesday\, September 24. In conjunction with the University of Illinois–Chicago’s Kriti Festival—a celebration of South Asian and Asian Diaspora Arts and Literature in Chicago—we present Rachel DeWoskin\, Mary Anne Mohanraj\, and Deepak Unnikrishnaan. \nDipika Mukherjee\, Curator\, states: “‘I Come To Your Country\, Name Me'” will be a creative exploration of Expatriation and Migration in the Asian diaspora. Asia has many communities and languages and cultures\, so we will speak in anecdotes instead of reductive generalities. Rachel DeWoskin will read from her life as the megastar of a Chinese soap opera in Beijing\, then read from her new book based in Shanghai. Mary Anne Mohanraj\, in her memoir\, discusses bisexuality\, taboos and going home to a discontented Sri Lanka which is no longer home. Deepak’s writing is grounded in Abu Dhabi where he grew up as the son of Indian expatriates\, but home has been America for more than a decade. All three readers live and work in Chicago.” \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nRachel DeWoskin’s fourth book\, the critically acclaimed Blind\, was published by Penguin in August 2014. Her novel Big Girl Small (FSG 2011) received the 2012 American Library Association’s Alex Award and was named one of the top 3 books of 2011 by Newsday. DeWoskin’s memoir\, Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton 2005) about the years she spent in China as the unlikely star of a Chinese soap opera\, has been published in six countries\, optioned first by Paramount for a feature film and then by HBO to be developed into a television series\, for which DeWoskin co-wrote the pilot episode. Her debut novel Repeat After Me (The Overlook Press\, 2009)\, which follows the unexpected romance between a young American teacher and her Chinese student\, won a Foreward Magazine Book of the Year Award. She has written essays and articles for Vanity Fair\, The Sunday Times Magazine of London\, Teachers and Writers\, and anthologies including Found: Requiem for a Paper Bag\, and Wanderlust. Her poems have appeared in journals including Ploughshares\, Seneca Review\, New Delta Review\, Nerve Magazine and The New Orleans Review. She teaches fiction and memoir at the University of Chicago. \n  \nMary Anne Mohanraj is author of Bodies in Motion (HarperCollins)\, The Stars Change (Circlet Press) and ten other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards\, a USA Today Notable Book\, and has been translated into six languages.  The Stars Change is a Lambda-award-finalist science fiction novella.  Previous titles include Aqua Erotica and Wet (two erotica anthologies edited for Random House)\,Kathryn in the City and The Classics Professor (two erotic choose-your-own-adventure novels\, Penguin)\, The Best of Strange Horizons\, the collection\, Without a Map\, Aqueduct Press\, co-authored with Nnedi Okorafor\, The Poet’s Journey (picture book)\, and A Taste of Serendib (a Sri Lankan cookbook). \nMohanraj founded the Hugo-nominated magazine\, Strange Horizons\, and serves as editor-in-chief of Jaggery\, a South Asian literary journal (jaggerylit.com). She was Guest of Honor at WisCon 2010\, will be Guest of Honor at Maneki Neko Con\, received a Breaking Barriers Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women for her work in Asian American arts organizing\, and won an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose.  She serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (www.desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (www.speclit.org)\, and directs the Kriti Festival of South Asian arts and literature (kritifestival.org). Mohanraj has taught at the Clarion SF/F workshop\, and is Clinical Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \n  \nDeepak Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu Dhabi. His first set of short stories\, Coffee Stains in a Camel’s Teacup was published by Vijitha Yapa Publications (Colombo\, Sri Lanka). His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Drunken Boat\, Himal Southasian\, Bound Off\, The State Vol IV: Dubai\, the art project  Autopoiesis (www.autopoiesis.io)\, and in the anthology Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana (Zubaan Books\, India). He has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, where on scholarship he completed the manuscript for his first work of fiction set in the Gulf\,  excerpts from which are forthcoming in Guernica. He is the winner of the 2014 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. \n\n  \n  \nABOUT THE CURATOR\n \n  \nDipika Mukherjee is a writer and sociolinguist. Her debut novel\, Thunder Demons (Gyaana 2011)\, was long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. She lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT OUR PARTNERS\n \n  \nKriti is the Hindi word for “creation\,” and Chicago’s Kriti Festival was launched in 2005 to celebrate South Asian and diaspora literature and arts. In 2005\, 2007\, and 2009\, more than thirty writers\, artists\, performers\, editors\, and agents came to Chicago to share their work with the general public\, through panel discussions\, readings\, theatrical\, music\, and dance performances\, workshops\, and more. \nThe festival returns in September 2014\, and will be hosted at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, co-sponsored by the English Department\, the Asian Studies Program\, and the Asian American Studies Program. \n  \n \n  \nThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Writing program is for writers of all genres—fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and playwriting—as well as for writers and artists who work with both image and text. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/forged-identities-i-come-to-your-country-name-me-asian-author-reading-series/
LOCATION:SAIC\, LeRoy Neiman Center\, 37 S Wabash Ave\, 1st floor\, Chicago\, 60602\, United States
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