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SUMMARY:The Alphabet of Distant Harbours
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Complex continues a new reading platform to foreground Asian / American authors and themes. Curated by Dipika Mukherjee\, this spring’s program—The Alphabet of Distant Harbours—features Toni Nealie\, Zhou Sivan\, and Angela Narciso Torres. \n“The Alphabet of Distant Harbours’” will bring together writers who explore the suppression as well as expression of identity in the Asian diaspora. Zhou Sivan (also Nicholas Y. H. Wong) traces the secret lives of ‘M’ in his poems — Malacca\, the Malay Archipelago\, myth\, Maeterlinck\, mother and matter\, marriage\, Medusa\, misanthropes and misbehaving — in exquisitely wrought poetry. Toni Nealie\, who moved to Chicagoland from New Zealand\, raises questions about the shame and fear suppressed through generations and how they continue to manifest in her thought-provoking creative nonfiction. Award-winning poet Angela Narciso Torres will read from her significant body of work to explore the varying degrees of elasticity in the distances between continents\, families\, lovers\, memory and reality\, waking and dreaming\, while invoking her native Philippines and the various landscapes in which she has lived.” ~Dipika Mukherjee \nThis program is presented in partnership with the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events\, and will be held in the Garland Room (first floor) of the Chicago Cultural Center. The programs is free of charge and open to the public. Arrive early to sign up for the open mic. \nClick here to RSVP and share on Facebook. \nABOUT OUR CURATOR \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  \nABOUT OUR AUTHORS \nToni Nealie was born in New Zealand. A former journalist\, she worked in N.Z. and the U.K. before moving to Illinois where she teaches and writes. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing – Nonfiction – from Columbia College Chicago. Recent essays appeared in Guernica and The Prague Review. Her first collection of essays is forthcoming from Curbside Splendor. \n  \n  \nZhou Sivan was born in Malaysia. His poems have appeared in Asymptote\, The Salt Anthology of New Writing 2013\, Columbia Review\, The Rialto\, QLRS\, and Southeast Asian Review of English\, sometimes under the name Nicholas Y. H. Wong. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in comparative literature at University of Chicago and is managing editor at Chicago Review. \n  \n  \nAngela Narciso Torres’s first book of poetry\, Blood Orange\, won the Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry. Recent work appears in Pirene’s Fountain\, Cimarron Review\, Colorado Review\, and Drunken Boat. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, Angela has received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council\, Ragdale Foundation\, and Midwest Writing Center. Her poetry has received Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila\, she currently resides in Chicago\, where she teaches poetry workshops and serves as a senior poetry editor for RHINO. www.angelanarcisotorres.com \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/the-alphabet-of-distant-harbours/
LOCATION:The Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E Washington St. 
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SUMMARY:Palabra Pura: Borderless Bodies
DESCRIPTION:This month’s Palabra Pura is curated by Daniel Borzutzky\, who believes that this month’s performers\, Duriel E. Harris and Rodrigo Toscano\, are two of our present moment’s most innovative\, most dynamic and powerful and surprising poets and performers. \n“For these two artists\, no distinction can be made between their poetics and their performativity. They write beautiful books\, they make intergalactic music\, they make collaborative theater\, they speak\, they sing\, the transmit multilingually\, and polyphonically. Theirs is an art rooted in movements\, in sounds\, in bodies that dream\, that explode that collapse. Theirs is an art rooted in a politics of radical compassion for laboring bodies\, urbanized anguished bodies\, warring bodies\, and loving bodies. These two poet-performers collapse the borders of language; they evoke political and historical movements that have shaped our social identities; and they are fearless in their ability to say the most difficult things\, and to say them with vehemence\, with intricacy\, and\, finally\, with an art that is fierce\, complex\, and spilling with passion and joy.” ~Daniel Borzutzky \nAll “mother” tongues are welcome! Arrive early to sign up for the open mic. \nPalabra Pura is pay-what-you-can ($5 suggested donation). Audience contributions support honorariums for the curators and featured authors. \nThis program is sponsored by Poets & Writers\, and by the Chicago Center for Working Class Studies. \n \n  \n  \nABOUT OUR FEATURED AUTHORS \nEditor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora and cofounder of the Black Took Collective\, Duriel E. Harris is the author of Drag\, Amnesiac: Poems\, and Speleology (a video collaboration with Scott Rankin). A recipient of grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and post-doctoral residencies at UIC and the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Harris’s work has been featured and published internationally. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, recent writing appears in Fifth Wednesday and Kweli as well as BAX (Best American Experimental Writing)\, The Force of What’s Possible and The &Now Awards 3. Recent appearances include feature performances at the Art Institute of Chicago\, Babylon Cinema (Berlin) and off off Broadway at The Wild Project (NYC). An associate professor of English at Illinois State University\, Harris is a member of Douglas Ewart & Inventions creative music ensemble and Call & Response—a dynamic of Black women in performance. Current projects include the sound compilation “Black Magic” and Thingification—a solo play in one act. \n  \n \nRodrigo Toscano’s newest book of poetry is Deck of Deeds (Counterpath Press 2012). His previous collection\, Collapsible Poetics Theater\, was a 2007 National Poetry Series Selection. Forthcoming from Fence Books in 2016 is Explosion Rocks Springfield. He was the recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies\, including Against Expression\, Diasporic Avant Gardes\, Angels of the Americlypse\, and Best American Poetry. His poetics plays have been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater and Ontological-Hysteric Poet’s Theater Festival. His radio pieces have aired on WPIX FM\, KAOS Public Radio\, WNYU\, and PS.1 Radio. His poetry has been translated into French\, Dutch\, Italian\, German\, Portuguese\, Norwegian and Catalan. Toscano works for the Labor Institute in conjunction the United Steelworkers and the National Institute for Environmental Health Science. He works out of a laptop\, tethered to a Droid\, residing in airports\, occupying poetics in midflight. He enjoys running and writing for the North Brooklyn Runners from his home base in the Greenpoint township of Brooklyn. \n  \nABOUT OUR CURATOR \nDaniel Borzutzky‘s books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat\, forthcoming); The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat\, 2011); The Ecstasy of Capitulation (BlazeVox\, 2007); and Arbitrary Tales (Ravenna Press\, 2005). His poetry translations include include Raúl Zurita’s The Country of Planks (forthcoming\, Action Books); Song for his Disappeared Love (Action Books\, 2010); and Jaime Luis Huenún’s Port Trakl (Action Books\, 2008). His chapbooks include Data Bodies (Green Lantern\, 2013); Bed Time Stories for the End of the World! (Bloof Books\, forthcoming); One Size Fits All (Scantily Clad\, 2009); and Failure in the Imagination (Bronze Skull\, 2007). His writing has been anthologized in Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing; Telephone Books Anthology of English-to-English Translations of Shakespeare Sonnets; La Alteración del Silencio: Poesía Norteamericana Reciente; Malditos Latinos Malditos Sudacas: Poesia Iberoamericana Made in USA; Seriously Funny: Poems About Love\, God\, War\, Art\, Sex\, Madness\, and Everything Else; A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years; and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century. His writing has been translated into Spanish\, French\, Bulgarian\, Romanian and Turkish. His work has been recognized by grants from the PEN American Center\, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/palabra-pura-borderless-bodies/
LOCATION:La Bruquena Restaurant\, 2726 W. Division\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palabra Pura
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SUMMARY:The Wall of Respect and People’s Art Since 1967 Symposium Opening
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Literary Complex joins the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and other partners in a symposium launch event tonight to honor and discuss the legacy of the Wall of Respect. The Wall of Respect and People’s Art Since 1967 is a symposium (April 17-18) that launches a two-year critical conversation on the Wall of Respect that leads up to the mural’s 50th anniversary in 2017. \nIn the summer of 1967\, during a time of political turbulence\, the visual artists of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC)\, together with muralist William Walker\, painted a group mural on the South Side of Chicago. Known as the Wall of Respect\, the highly visible community artwork celebrated black heroes\, served as a platform for performance and rallies\, and engendered a sense of collective ownership within the neighborhood\, inspiring community mural movements around the US and the world. \nThis symposium invites the artists to revisit their creative political acts and to reflect on the Wall’s legacy in a public conversation. To see a full schedule\, click here. \nToday’s opening program will be held in the Nichols Trustees Suite of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing. The keynote address will be presented by visual artist Wadsworth Jarrell\, and the evening will include poetry\, music\, and more. Speakers for this opening event include: \n\nHaki Madhubuti (Founder and Chairman\, Third World Press)\nWalter Massey (President\, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)\nSiddha Weber (artist\, poet\, musician)\nSherae Rimpsey (poet\, MFAW Candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)\n\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required. Seating is limited and on a first come\, first served basis. To register\, please contact Drea Howenstein at ghowen@saic.edu or Sonja Falke at sfalke@saic.edu. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/wall-of-respect/
LOCATION:Art Institute of Chicago\, Modern Wing\, 159 E Monroe St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60603\, United States
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