Poetry at the Point: Jennifer Whalen & Sebastián Páramo
January 28 @ 7:30 pm
This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page.
We kick off 2025 with poets Jennifer Whalen & Sebastián Páramo!
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ABOUT THE POETS
Jennifer Whelan (she/her) is a poet & educator from the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati, Ohio area. She is the author of the poetry collection Eveningful, which was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her poems can be found in Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Sixth Finch, Grist, The Boiler, & elsewhere. She previously served as writer-in-residence at Texas State University’s Clark House & currently teaches English at the University of Illinois Springfield.
Sebastián Páramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books, 2023) and was named a finalist for the 2023 Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. His poems have recently appeared in AGNI, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, and elsewhere. His work has received fellowships and support from the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at UT-Austin, CantoMundo, among others. He is the founding editor of The Boiler and is a Lecturer at Southern Methodist University.