Observable

Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Observable series celebrates its 20th season!

The Observable series features local and national poets sharing recently published and new work. Originally started in 2003 by poet Aaron Belz, Observable is a key part of the St. Louis poetry landscape, presenting the liveliness and diversity of contemporary poetry.

Series Curators: Lizzy Petersen & Bailey Schaumburg

Observable Readings – Winter 2024

erica lewis & Teresa Dzieglewicz
Monday, February 26
7:00 p.m. (CDT) – In-person at High Low + Livestream Event
$5 | suggested donation

Enjoy the livestream here:
https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-february-2024/
Or here:
https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter/live

ABOUT THE POETS

ERICA LEWIS lives in San Francisco. Her books include the precipice of jupiter (2009, with artist Mark Stephen Finein), camera obscura (2010, with artist Mark Stephen Finein), murmur in the inventory (2013); and the box set trilogy: daryl hall is my boyfriend (2015), mary wants to be a superwoman (2017), mahogany (2023). She is currently writing a novel inspired by the murder of her maternal grandmother. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

TERESA DZIEGLEWICZ is a poet, educator, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute, a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and part of the founding team of Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School). Her first book of poetry Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2023. Her first children’s book, co-written with Kimimila Locke, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books in 2025. She has won a Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, the Gingko Prize, the Auburn Witness Prize, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Community of Writers at Tahoe, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Brooklyn Poets. Her poems appear in the Pushcart Prize XLII, Best New Poets, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Ninth Letter, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.


The Observable Readings series is supported in part by: