- Emily Calvo
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A long-time Chicago poetry event organizer, Emily Thornton Calvo’s unleashed her overdue first book of poems, "Lending Color to the Otherwise Absurd in 2014. A writer, author, poet and artist, Calvo is a member of Chicago’s poetry community. Her poems have been published in journals, such as After Hours, Coleré, Oyez Review and others. She was a semi-finalist for the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, taught poetry in Chicago’s public schools through the Poetry Center of Chicago's Hands on Stanzas program, and performed in numerous venues in Chicago as well as Fontenay le Comte, France. She is a co-founder and associate board member of Chicago Slam Works. She is also the author of non-fiction books How to Succeed in Advertising When All You Have is Talent and 25 Words of Less as well as numerous other titles.
Since surviving breast cancer in 2010 and leukemia in 2012, Calvo has been committed to focusing on writing and painting for the healing impact the arts offer and sharing this message with others. She thrives in Chicago, Illinois. -
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