POETRY AT THE POINT is held at THE FOCAL POINT, in Maplewood on the 4th Tuesday of the month. The Focal Point is at 2720 Sutton which is one block east of Big Bend and Manchester. Turn right or south on Sutton, the Focal Point is on the left; parking is in the lot on nearby Marietta. Doors open at 7 pm, readings start at 7:30 pm, FREE. Refreshments available at the Maya Cafe next door. For more information contact Dean at 636-225-5423 or email us at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Upcoming Readings & Events
March 23, 2010: Ed Boccia, Catherine Rankovic
Poetry at the Point for March 23, 2010 will feature Ed Boccia and Catherine Rankovic.
Edward Boccia is a painter, poet and former board president ofthe St. Louis Poetry Center. He is Professor Emeritus, School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. His paintings are in public and private collections in the USA, Europe and South America. Boccia’s poetry is represented in many anthologies and journals including: Pudding House, Orbis, Eliot Review, Odessa, Black Mulit, California Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, and Webster Review. His seven published chapbooks include Moving The Still Life (Pudding House, Columbus, Ohio, 1998, nominated for the Pushcart Prize), No Matter How Good The Light Is (Time Being Books, St. Louis, Missouri, 1998), Answering Neruda (Pudding House, Columbus Ohio, 2006) and Carlo X (Pudding House, Columbus Ohio, 2008).
Catherine Rankovic is an adjunct professor of English literature at Washington University, is the author of Fierce Consent and Other Poems from WingSpan Press. She also is the author of a book of essays, reviews, and other prose pieces titled Island Universe and a co-author of a collection of essays titled Guilty Pleasures: Indulgences, Addictions, and Obsessions. Her poetry and prose have appeared in River Styx, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, The Progressive, and Margie.
April 27, 2010: Charles Sweetman, Walter Bargen
Poetry at the Point will feature Chuck Sweetman and Walter Bargen on April 27, 2010.
Chuck Sweetman’s first book of poems, Enterprise, Inc. was published by Dream Horse Press in 2008, after a sequence from it, Incorporated, won the Dream Horse Press Chapbook prize. His poems, stories, and reviews have appeared in such places as River Styx, Black Warrior Review, Poet Lore, Delmar, and others. He lives in Kirkwood with his family and teaches at Washington University where he is currently Director of Writing Courses.
Walter Bargen has published thirteen books and two chapbooks of poems, most recently, The Feast (BkMk Press-UMKC, 2004), Remedies for Veritgo (WordTech Press, 2006), West of West (Timberline Press, 2007), Theban Traffic (Cherry Grove Collections, 2009), and Days Like this are Necessary (BkMk Press, UMKC, 2010). His poems and fictions have appeared in over one hundred magazines and journals. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship (1991); winner of the Quarter After Eight Prose Prize (1995), the Hanks Prize (1996), and the Chester H. Jones Foundation Poetry Prize (1997), and the William Rockhill Nelson Award (2005). In January 2009, he was appointed to be the first Poet Laureate of Missouri.
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