Book Release Party Power Lines: A Decade Of Poetry
Guild Complex
“The Guild Complex is as natural to Chicago as its rivers and lakes. It represents in the writers and performers the vision of a city of flexh and blood, men and women, rather than a city of things.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Studs Terkel
“The Guild Complex is as natural to Chicago as its rivers and lakes. It represents in the writers and performers the vision of a city of flexh and blood, men and women, rather than a city of things.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Studs Terkel Every week at the Guild complex—Chicago’s internationally renowned, cross-cultural literary center—poets open themselves up to the audience. They lay their hearts and minds on the stage for strangers and friends to inspect, picking apart their lives and the world around them, searching for answers and questions in a communal ritual called “a poetry reading.” They mix revolutionary chants with appeals for love, Dow Jones averages with blues, outrage at injustice with razor-sharp satire, a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo protesting racism and war, a child’s cry against abuse, and shouts of joy in a b-flat note. Tonight at Guild Complex we will feature a reading from voices of the latest Tia Chucha Press release: Power Lines-Adecade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex. Many of the poets featured in the book will be in attendance tonight reading from the book. Accompanying the poets will be bassist and friend of Guild Complex, Mitch “Mitar” Covic . Copies of Power Lines will be available. Mitch “ Mitar” Covic has been associated with the Guild Complex since its inception as an original advisory board member and as a performer. Since 1982 he has specialized in composing for poets, notably David Hernandez and Street Sounds, for whom he was music director for 10 years. He subsequently appeared with man Guild stalwarts including Rohan Preston, Glenda Zahra Baker, Angela Shannon, Mark Turcotte and Luis Rodriguez.Performers
Mitch “Mitar” Covic