Tue July 23rd 7p - Finalists present their poetry for the 20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards to compete for $500 prize.
Tickets $7/5 students - at the door
07/23/13 - 07/23/13
7pm
20th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award (GBOMA). Twenty (20) semi-‐finalists will compete for a $500 prize in front of a voting audience on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 7:00 p.m. at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division Street.
Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-‐2000) founded the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award twenty years ago. Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas and lived in Chicago for the rest of her life. She was the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry and numerous other books. Her many awards and honors include Poet Laureate of Illinois, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, American Academy of Arts and Letters award, a Pulitzer Prize, the Frost Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Past GBOMA winners include Sename Amagashie, Lucy Anderton, Tara Betts, C.C. Carter, Stephanie Gentry-‐Fernandez, Marian Hayes, Tricia Hersey, Tyehimba Jess, Langston Kerman, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Sage Morgan-‐Hubbard, Stephanie Rose Perez, Tristan Silverman, Dan “Sully” Sullivan, and Mark Turcotte.
Director
John Rich (Director, Guild Complex)
Performers
Olivia M. Arredondo, Lucia Blinn, Ann Breen-Greco, Quintin Collins, Dina Elenbogen, Glenn Ford, Amelia M. Garcia, Marc Livingston (a.k.a. G.P.A.), Nate Marshall, Maya Marshall, Diana Pando, Gregory Pickett, Kelly Reuter, Shanara “The MouthPeace” Sanders, Sandra Santiago, Rachel Slotnick, Javon Smith, M. Quinn Stifler, Sharon Warner, and Arne Weingart
Production
John Rich (Director, Guild Complex and Co-Host); Toni Asante-Lightfoot (Co-Host); Photography - Chopin Theatre
