St. Louis Poetry Center

Poetry workshops are held the third Sunday of the month from September through April at 1:30 pm in the auditorium of the University City Library, 6702 Delmar, University City, MO. The guest poet/critic will lead the workshop and provide professional critique on a selection of the pre-submitted manuscripts. All poems submitted will receive written comments. You may submit poems via U.S. Mail or e-mail to be received by 5 pm on Saturday the week previous to the workshop -- thus a week and a day prior to the workshop. If submitting by mail, send two copies of the poem to Workshop Submission, St. Louis Poetry Center, 567 North & South, #8, St. Louis, MO 63130. If submitting by e-mail, (note new email address) send as an attachment in Microsoft Word to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and put “Workshop Submission” in the Subject Line. If an email response is not received in 24 hours, please re-send or call 973-0616.

With either method, submit only one poem and no longer than one page, in vertical format with only one column of text. This way we can cover the work of more poets during each workshop. Use 12 or 14 point font only. If using a pen name, provide real name and mailing address. Poet should plan to attend the workshop.

Everyone, regardless of experience or membership in SLPC, is encouraged to participate. You do not need to submit a poem to attend. Workshops are free and open to the public. Please scroll down to see upcoming poet critics.

Poet Critics 2009-2010
Sept Oct Nov Jan Feb Mar Apr	David Clewell John Gallaher Susan Swartout Allison Joseph Stacey Lynn Brown Steven Schreiner Devin Johnston

Poet Critics 2008-2009
Sept Oct Nov Jan Feb Mar Apr	Allison Funk Carl Phillips Walter Bargen Richard Newman Hadara Bar Nadav Adrian Matejka Chad Parmenter

Poet Critics 2007-2008
Sept Oct Nov Jan Feb Mar Apr	Gabriel Fried Catherine Rankovic Eamonn Wall Richard Newman Troy Jollimore K. Curtis Lyle Molly Peacock

Upcoming Workshops

September Worksop with Jeff Friedman (Jeff Friedman - September 19, 2010)

Jeff Friedman's fifth collection of poetry, Working in Flour, will be published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in fall 2010. His poems and translations have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, 5 AM, Margie, Agni Online, Poetry
International, Prairie Schooner, Antioch Review, Ontario Review, The 2River View, and The New Republic. A contributing editor to Natural Bridge, he teaches at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His book of translations, Two Gardens: Modern Hebrew Poems of the Bible, will be published in 2011 by Wolfson Press.

Jeff Friedman

October Workshop with Melissa Range (Melissa Range - October 17, 2010)

Melissa Range was born and raised in Upper East Tennessee. Her poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, Image, and Best Spiritual Writing 2010 and will appear in The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poets (2010). She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a “Discovery”/The Nation award, and a writing fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her first book of poems, Horse and Rider, won the 2010 Walt McDonald Prize in Poetry from Texas Tech University Press. She is currently pursuing her PhD in creative writing at the University of Missouri.

November Workshop with Eamonn Wall (Eamonn Walll - November 21, 2010)

A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland, Eamonn Wall has lived in the US since 1982. He was educated at University College Dublin, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the City University of New York, where he received his Ph.D. in English. He is the author of five collections of poetry: A Tour of Your Country (2008), Refuge at De Soto Bend (2004), The Crosses (2000), Iron Mountain Road (1997), and Dyckman-200th Street (1994), all published by Salmon Publishing in Ireland. A new volume will appear from Salmon in 2011. Eamonn Wall

From the Sin-e Café to the Black Hills, a collection of essays, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2000 and awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize by the American Conference for Irish Studies for excellence in scholarship. Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press next year.

Essays, articles, and reviews of Irish, Irish American, and American writers have appeared in The Irish Times, New Hibernia Review, Irish Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, South Carolina Review, An Sionnach, and other journals.

Eamonn Wall lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and is Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.