EXHIBIT B: A Literary Variety Show

Join us on Thursday, May 25th, as Exhibit B brings the show to Pilsen Community Books featuring performances from Chad Morgan, Crystal Vance Guerra, Parker Young, and Christie Valentin-Bati.

Artist Bios:

Christie Valentin-Bati is a hybrid poet and photographer interested in the beauty and horrors of everyday life. Unofficially, she's just a suburban kid from Florida, now transplanted to Chicago with too many plants to water. Her work has twice received an honorable mention in the Academy of American Poets Eileen Lannan Poetry Contest, has been commissioned by the ACLU of IL, won runner-up in Columbia University's Black History Month Special Issue Contest, and exhibited in Davis Street Drawing Room and Porous Gallery. She is a Poet-in-Residence at Chicago Poetry Center and Teaching Artist at Young Chicago Authors, Hugo House, and 826Chi.

Crystal Vance Guerra is a chicana poet, historian, and educator based in and between Chicago and Mexico City.…