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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Backbone Press Chicago Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Complex Presents: A reading with Backbone Press \nFeaturing our 30 Writers to Watch Tara Betts and Faisal Mohyuddin\, along with other Backbone Press authors Naoko Fujimoto\, Allison Joseph\, and Aozora Brockman. \nAs a response to the bleak state of diversity in publishing\, Backbone Press has been publishing diversely since 2012\, supporting writers who are considered marginalized voices and whose work may not be published elsewhere. Without the political\, protest\, diasporic\, voices of the poor\, and even prison writing\, there are no distinctions. These publications provide necessary bridges\, particularly in terms of generational\, gender\, and racial lines. In addition to informing\, they engage us in broader cultural conversations. \nTara Betts is the author of Break the Habit (Trio House Press) and Arc & Hue (Willow Books). She teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago and lives in Chicago. She has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and her work has appeared in Essence Magazine\, Callaloo\, Drum Voices Revue\, WSQ\, Columbia Poetry Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hanging Loose\, and Drunken Boat. \n  \nAozora Brockman holds an MFA from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in the Split Rock Review and Chicago Tribune. She grew up on a small\, family-operated organic farm in Central Illinois\, and much of her poetry is influenced by the meditative spaces of weeding and harvesting. \n  \n  \nNaoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya\, Japan. She was an exchange student and received a B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University. Her forthcoming poetry collections is Where I Was Born\, winner of the editor’s choice by Willow Books\, Spring\, 2019. Her first chapbook\, Home\, No Home\, won the annual Oro FinoChapbook Competition. She is a RHINO Poetry fellow. \n  \nAllison Joseph received a BA from Kenyon College and an MFA from Indiana University–Bloomington. She is the author of several poetry collections\, including Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press\, 2018); Worldly Pleasures (Word Press\, 2004); and What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand\, 1992)\, winner of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. She also serves as the editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. \n  \n Faisal Mohyuddin is a writer\, artist\, and educator from Chicago\, Illinois. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear Publishing\, 2018)\, winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize. The recipient of Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley Award and a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize\, his work appears in the Missouri Review\, Narrative\, Crab Orchard Review\, Poet Lore\, RHINO\, Tinderbox\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, Atlanta Review\, and elsewhere. \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/backbone-press-chicago-reading/
LOCATION:Chopin Theater\, 1543 W Division
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: 30W2W Book Release & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join the Guild Literary Complex in celebrating the recent release of The Distance Between by Timothy J. Hillegonds\, and a reading from Kenyatta Rogers\, two of the Guild’s 30 Writers to Watch. \nHillegonds’s memoir is a finely wrought exploration of\, and reckoning with\, absent fathers\, fatherhood\, violence\, adolescent rage\, white male privilege\, and his own toxic masculinity. With nuance and urgency\, The Distance Between takes readers through the grit of life on the margins while grappling with the problematic nature of one man’s existence. \nThe evening will also feature readings from:\nChris Green\nMichelle Morano \nTimothy J. Hillegonds is the author of The Distance Between (Nebraska\, 2019). His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune\, Salon\, The Daily Beast\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere on the web and in print. In 2019\, Tim was named by the Guild Literary Complex as one of their thirty “Writers to Watch.” He earned a Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University in Chicago\, and currently serves as a contributing editor for Slag Glass City\, a digital journal of the urban essay arts. \n  \nChris Green is the author of four books of poetry: The Sky Over Walgreens\, Epiphany School\, Résumé\, and Everywhere West (Mayapple Press\, 2019). His poetry has appeared in such publications as Poetry and The New York Times. He’s edited four anthologies\, including I Remember: Chicago Veterans of War and most recently\, American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans (Big Shoulders Books\, 2020). He teaches in the English Department at DePaul University. More information can be found at www.chrisgreenpoetry.com. \n  \n  \nMichele Morano is the author of the travel memoir Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain and the forthcoming memoir-in-essays Like Love. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies\, including Best American Essays\, Fourth Genre\, Ninth Letter\, and Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women. She lives in Chicago\, where she chairs the English Department at DePaul University. \n  \nKenyatta Rogers\, one of the Guild’s 30 Writers to Watch\, is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been awarded multiple scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. He has also been nominated multiple times for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. His work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from Jubilat\, Vinyl\, Bat City Review\, The Volta\, PANK\, MAKE Magazine among others. He is as a co-host of the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench\, an Associate Editor with RHINO Poetry and currently serves on the Creative Writing Faculty at the Chicago High School for the Arts.
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/30w2w-book-release-reading/
LOCATION:Hopleaf\, 5148 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640
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