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 – Spring 2024
Edgar Kunz & Reyes Ramirez
Saturday, April 6
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-april-2024/
Or here:
https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter/live
ABOUT THE POETS
EDGAR KUNZ is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer, published by Ecco in 2023 and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out, published by Ecco in 2019. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College.
REYES RAMIREZ (he/him) is a Houstonian, writer, educator, curator, and organizer of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He authored the short story collection The Book of Wanderers (2022), a 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist, from University of Arizona Press’ Camino del Sol series and the poetry collection El Rey of Gold Teeth (2023) from Hub City Press. His latest curatorial project, The Houston Artist Speaks Through Grids, explores the use of grids in contemporary Houston art, literature, history, and politics. Reyes has been honored as a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow, 2021 Interchange Artist Grant Fellow, 2022 Crosstown Arts Writer in Residence, 2023 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow, 2023 Dobie Paisano Fellow, 2024 Speculative Play and Just Futurities Fellow and awarded grants from the Houston Arts Alliance, Poets & Writers, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund.
The Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
