Readings

Poetry at the Point July 27, 2010

July 27, 2010: Steve Schreiner, Kelli Allen, Brit Blasingame, Joe Grailer, Will Kyle, Kerstin Parmley, Jen Tappenden

Poetry at the Point for Tuesday, July 27 will feature Steve Schreiner and has UM-St. Louis MFA poets - Kelli Allen, Brit Blasingame, Joe Grailer, Will Kyle, Kerstin Parmley, and Jen Tappenden.

Steve is an associate professor of English at UM-St Louis, author of Too Soon To Leave, and founding editor of Natural Bridge, a journal of contemporary literature.  His recent poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Margie, River Styx, Sou'wester, Tar River Poetry, Stosvet: Cardinal Points, and elsewhere.

Poetry at the Point, September 28, 2010

September 28, 2010: Allison Funk, Lloyd Kropp

Poetry at the Point for Tuesday, September 28, will feature Allison Funk and Lloyd Kropp.  Doors open at 7 pm, poetry starts at 7:30 pm.

ALLISON FUNK is the internationally acclaimed author of four collections of poetry, The Knot Garden, Living at the Epicenter, Forms of Conversion and The Tumbling Box.  She has received the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize and awards from the Society of Midland Authors, the Poetry Society of America, Poetry, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
 
LLOYD KROPP is an award-winning American author who has published four novels, has two more in submission, and is now working on a seventh novel and a book of poetry. He is a Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville where he received a Distinguished Performance Award from the School of Humanities, an award for interdisciplinary teaching, and two nominations for the Distinguished Teaching Award. He is also a composer. His music has been performed at the University composers' concerts at SIUE, at Puerto Rican Ballet Arts in San Juan, and once on educational TV (WGBH, Pittsburgh) when he wrote the music for Lawrence Lee's The American as Faust. He has also been a cafe/nightclub pianist, most recently at Nerudas in Edwardsville, Illinois

Poetry at the Point, October 26, 2010

October 26, 2010: Alice Azure, Carter Revard

Poetry at the Point for Tuesday, October 26, will feature Alice Azure and Carter Revard.

Alice Azure grew up in Cromwell, Connecticut, where she lived eight years in a Scandinavian–oriented children’s home.  Miraculously, her Mi’kmaq roots from Nova Scotia survived in that strange kettle of stew.  Sandwiched between three children and a husband were college years at North Park University (Chicago), a BA degree from Augustana College (Rock Island), and an MA in urban and regional planning from the University of Iowa.  She recently retired to Maryville, Illinois after a twenty-five year career in the United Way movement, where as a social planner, she worked with volunteers in Rock Island, (IL), Green Bay (WI), Washington, D.C. and Gales Ferry (CT) to allocate charitable funds, conduct community needs assessments, evaluate the results of funded programs and raise funds for local nonprofits.  Her first book, In Mi’kmaq Country: Selected Poems and Stories, was released in 2007 by Albatross Press. Recent poems and essays have appeared in Native Literatures: Generations; Whisper n Thunder; Yellow Medicine Review; I Was Indian: An Anthology of Native Literature; Visions and Voices: American Indian Activism and the Civil Rights Movement; Many Mountains Moving; Yukhika-latuhse and Mid Rivers Review. The St. Louis Poetry Center, to which she belongs, published her prize-winning poems in its annual chapbooks of 2007 and 2008. 

Carter Revard was born and raised on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma, attended Buck Creek Rural School there, graduated from U of Tulsa and galumphed to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, then Yale for PhD in medieval matters, taught in universities (medieval, linguistics, American Indian Lit) until retiring in 1997, has published various über-footnoted essays and translations of raunchy medieval French story-poems and collections of poems about bank-robbing and bootlegging uncles and radical redskins and singing deer mice and what Karl Marx said about Chaunteclere prophesying Der Revolution.  He has lately read his poems in Salzburg, Innsbruck, Oxford, Le Havre, Montpellier, Kansas City, and Pawhuska, will publish soon an explanation of Milton's Two-Handed Engine, in July 2010 presented scholarly papers in Padua and Ludlow, in August 2011 will present one in Tokyo on a Puritan preacher's 1636 Gunpowder Sermons for which his ears were cut off (the preacher's, not Revard's--he wears hearing aids).

Poetry at the Point, November 23, 2010

November 23, 2010: Shane Seely, Jeff Hamilton

Poetry at the Point for Tuesday, November 23, will feature Shane Seely and Jeff Hamilton.

Shane Seely’s first book of poems, The Snowbound House, won the 2008 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was published by Anhinga Press in November 2009. Shane is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches composition and creative writing and acts as Assistant Director of the university’s expository writing program.
 
Jeff  Hamilton is a poet, scholar and teacher, at Washington University. Educated at Denison, the University of Iowa, and  Washington  University (PhD 2001), he  has also worked as a journalist, and editor.  He co-founded and edited  DELMAR magazine for fifteen years. His poems have appeared widely, most recently in THE LAUREL REVIEW and forthcoming in NOTRE DAME REVIEW. His essays on poetry  may be found in JACKET, THE DENVER QUARTERLY, and on the Observable  website.  With Bob Lowes, he co-curates the Observable Readings.