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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Melissa Qualls & Mark W. Kumming
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoems Out of Nowhere\n\n\n\nPoems can sneak up on us during the most banal moments of daily life. In these moments\, we are not searching for poems\, but being found by them. Mark Kumming and Melissa Qualls (both of Babler Poetry Society) will read from the poetry that has found them\, as well as engage in dialogue about creating community with other poets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point.  Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Qualls has taught in the English department at Lindenwood University since 2002 and earned her MFA in Creative Writing in 2018. She lives in Webster Groves with her husband\, two daughters\, and their two pampered cats. Her poetry explores the coexistence of pain and beauty in everyday life\, and most recently her poem “They Look So Small\, Lying There” won Second Honorable Mention at the 2024 Wednesday Club Original Poetry competition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark W. Kumming has a Masters Degree in English and taught ESL and Comp at the University level. A former RN\, he completed a career as a medical products sales rep and trainer in 2010. Mark is 72 and returned to writing poetry two years ago after a 50 year hiatus. He volunteers with Saint Louis Poetry Center and also raises money for Circle of Concern food pantry in Valley Park. He facilitates the Babler Poetry Society\, a collection of St. Louis poets who write poetry and read one another’s work. He is deeply indebted to his spouse of 47 years\, Deborah. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-august-2024/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Niki Herd & Travis Mossotti
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Niki Herd and Travis Mossotti for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collections The Stuff of Hollywood (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and The Language of Shedding Skin (Main Street Rag\, 2011)\, the chapbook\, don’t you weep\, and coedited with Meg Day Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry\, essays\, and criticism appear in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets\, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day)\, Poetry Daily\, New England Review\, Salon\, and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky\, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell\, Ucross\, Bread Loaf\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, the Newberry Library\, and Cave Canem. Herd has taught at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Lancaster\, PA where she’s an assistant professor at Franklin & Marshall College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRAVIS MOSSOTTI‘s three previous collections are About the Dead\, Field Study\, and Narcissus Americana. His fourth collection\, Racecar Jesus\, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize (Black Spring Press Group UK\, 2023). Mossotti’s fifth collection\, Apocryphal Genesis\, won the Alma Book Award (Saturnalia Books\, 2024). He recently won the 2023 Wales Poetry Award\, and he currently serves as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-september-2024/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Ross Gay
DESCRIPTION:Reading from The Book of (More) Delights  and  Inciting Joy: Essays\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a celebration with award-winning and best-selling author Ross Gay for the paperback releases of The Book of (More) Delights and Inciting Joy.  We are delighted to welcome Ross Gay back to St. Louis for a discussion and book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS \n\n\n\nIn this second intimate collection of short\, lyrical\, genre-defying essays\, again written daily over a year\, one of America’s most original and observant voices celebrates the ordinary\, helping us see our extraordinary world anew. Among Ross Gay’s funny\, poetic\, philosophical delights: bonding with a pipsqueak of a puppy\, observing how his mother bakes eighteen kinds of cookies before her grandchildren arrive\, noticing the tenderness he feels when he sees an adult wearing braces\, and the recognition that for him the preamble is often more delightful than the thing itself: “Putting on your socks and tying up your shoes\, and\, if you’re the type\, filling up your water bottle and doing some light stretching\, but skipping the walk entirely.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINCITING JOY \n\n\n\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet and bestselling author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other\, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection and expand it. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space\, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? Full of energy\, curiosity\, and compassion\, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSS GAY is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry\, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022\, and his newest collection\, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-ross-gay/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Myrtie Reilly & Matthew Freeman
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo close out our 2024 readings focusing on community\, our friends at Re:Born (a monthly poetry reading at the Fortune Teller Bar) will be joining us! Matthew Freeman will read his own poems and his co-host Myrtie Reilly will read the work of other poets before discussing the process of crafting a regular poetry event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point.  Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMyrtie Reilly co-curates and hosts RE:BORN\, a monthly poetry reading and open mic event (@reborn.poetry.stl). By day\, she passionately serves as a teacher and child advocate. Myrtie proudly calls St. Louis City home and embraces friendship with all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Freeman is the author of seven books of poems\, most recently I Think I’d Rather Roar (Cerasus Poetry). He holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-St Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-october-2024/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Eduardo C. Corral & Steven D. Schroeder
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Eduardo C. Corral and Steven D. Schroeder for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEDUARDO C. CORRAL is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine and Slow Lightning\, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTEVEN D. SCHROEDER is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently Wikipedia Apocalyptica. His second\, The Royal Nonesuch\, won the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University. His poetry is available from New England Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Copper Nickel\, The Rumpus\, and Diagram\, and has also been featured in city parks\, public transportation\, and business waiting rooms. He edits the online poetry journal $ (www.poetrycurrency.com) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-november-2024/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka
DESCRIPTION:Reading from A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we welcome Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka\, translators for A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi. This is the first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English. Join award winning poet\, translator\, and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis Mary Jo Bang with professor and poet Yuki Tanaka for their collaborative translation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA KISS FOR THE ABSOLUTE: SELECTED POEMS OF SHUZO TAKIGUCHI \n\n\n\nThe first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English \n\n\n\nIn 1923\, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake\, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later\, he was hit by a second earthquake–French Surrealism. Takiguchi (1903-1979) began to write surrealist poems\, translate surrealist writers\, curate exhibitions of surrealist art\, write art criticism\, and\, later\, paint\, helping introduce Surrealism to Japan. He eventually became a major Japanese artistic and cultural figure whose collected works number fourteen volumes. In A Kiss for the Absolute\, Mary Jo Bang\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and her fellow poet and translator Yuki Tanaka present the first collection in English of Takiguchi’s ingenious\, playful\, and erotic poems\, complete with an introduction and the original Japanese texts on facing pages. Takiguchi’s obvious interest in style is perfectly wed to his daredevil rhetorical antics. His poems read as if they could have been written today\, yet they are so original that they couldn’t have been written by anyone else. Bang and Tanaka’s skillful\, colloquial translations offer English readers a long-overdue introduction to this important poet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS & TRANSLATORS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG is the author of nine books of poems—including Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book\, A Film in Which I Play Everyone (Graywolf Press 2023)\, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award\, a PEN Voelcker Award\, and the Heartland Booksellers Award. She’s published translations of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, and Purgatorio. Her translation of Paradiso is forthcoming in July 2025. She is also the translator of Colonies of Paradise: Poems by Matthias Göritz\, and co-translator\, with Yuki Tanaka\, of A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi—forthcoming from Princeton University Press in November 2024. She’s been the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. She is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Yamaguchi\, Japan\, YUKI TANAKA is the author of a debut poetry collection\, Chronicle of Drifting\, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in April 2025. His poems have appeared in The Nation\, The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in English from Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in Tokyo and teaches at Hosei University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-mary-jo-bang-yuki-tanaka/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jennifer Whalen & Sebastián Páramo
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe kick off 2025 with poets Jennifer Whalen & Sebastián Páramo! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point.  Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Whalen (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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebastián 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-january-2025/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Jacqui Germain & Alison C. Rollins
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Jacqui Germain and Alison C. Rollins for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACQUI GERMAIN is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis\, Missouri. Her first full-length poetry collection\, Bittering the Wound\, was selected by Douglas Kearney for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and was awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. She’s the recipient of a journalism fellowship from the Economic Security Project and Teen Vogue\, and has written for The Nation\, The New York Times\, Teen Vogue\, The Guardian\, In These Times Magazine\, and more. Germain is also the recipient of poetry fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission\, Jack Jones Literary Arts\, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop\, and more. Her first poetry chapbook\, When the Ghosts Come Ashore\, was published by Button Poetry in 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALISON C. ROLLINS was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021\, her essay “Dispatch from the Racial Mountain” was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work\, across genres\, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Iowa Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow\, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018\, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and in 2020\, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and the debut poetry collection\, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press\, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-february-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Oksana Maksymchuk
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Lauris Veips\, a poet and translator from Latvia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a reading and conversation with Oksana Maksymchuk\, an award-winning bilingual Ukrainian American poet\, scholar\, and translator.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHer debut English-language poetry collection Still City: Diary of an Invasion (Pittsburgh University Press/Carcanet) offers an immersive chronicle of war\, originating in the months leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaksymchuk will be in conversation with Lauris Veips\, a poet and translator from Latvia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTILL CITY: DIARY OF AN INVASION \n\n\n\nNamed as One of Financial Times‘s Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024\, the poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality\, temporality\, mortality\, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet’s homeland\, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle\, a chorus\, and a collage\, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality\, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources\, including social media posts\, the news reports\, witness accounts\, recorded oral histories\, photographs\, drone video footage\, intercepted communication\, and official documents\, making sense of the transformations that war effects in individuals\, families\, and communities. Now ecstatic\, now cathartic\, these poems shine a light on survival\, mourning\, and hope through moments of terror and awe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOKSANA MAKSYMCHUK is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet\, scholar\, and translator. She is the author of poetry collections Xenia and Lovy in the Ukrainian. She coedited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine\, an anthology of contemporary poetry\, and has published a few single-author volumes of translations. Born and raised in Lviv\, Ukraine\, she has also lived in Chicago\, Philadelphia\, Budapest\, Berlin\, Warsaw\, and Fayetteville\, Arkansas. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLAURIS VEIPS is a poet and translator from Latvia. His debut poetry collection\, Interesting Days\, was nominated for the Annual Latvian Literature Award in 2021. His translations into Latvian include works by Archilochus\, Anne Carson\, John Donne\, and the evening’s guest Oksana Maksymchuk. Lauris is a 2nd-year PhD student in the Comparative Literature and Thought program at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-oksana-maksymchuk/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Conflict: Pádraig Ó Tuama
DESCRIPTION:a public lecture presented by WashU & the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Emerson Auditorium in Knight Hall at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a public lecture with Pádraig Ó Tuama\, poet and theologian whose work centers around themes of language\, power\, conflict\, and religion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by WashU & the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nEmerson Auditorium offers open seating\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nReception with speaker immediately following his talk\n\n\n\nRSVP / reservation is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP / RESERVATION INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets are not required\n\n\n\nSeating will be “first come\, first served”\n\n\n\nRegistration does not guarantee a seat\n\n\n\nPlease register at rap@wustl.edu or 314-935-9345\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE PUBLIC LECTURE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOETRY AND CONFLICT \n\n\n\nPoetry is an art that has always concerned itself with the questions of life: what’s growing\, what’s not\, what’s thriving\, what’s not\, what’s being stifled\, what’s being fed. The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics is delighted to host Pádraig Ó Tuama as he explores dynamics of conflict\, language\, rhyme\, description\, and resolution for this engaging evening at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA is a poet\, theologian\, conflict resolution mediator\, and the author of Poetry Unbound: 44 Poems On Being Together (2025)\, Kitchen Hymns (2025)\, Being Here: Prayers for Curiosity\, Justice\, and Love (2024)\, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (2022)\, Feed the Beast (2022)\, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community (2017)\, In the Shelter (2015)\, Sorry for your Troubles (2013)\, and Readings from the Books of Exile (2012)\, which was longlisted for the 2013 Polari First Book Prize. \n\n\n\nA freelance artist\, one of Ó Tuama’s projects is poet in residence with the Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Center at Columbia University. Pádraig Ó Tuama holds a BA Div validated by the Pontifical College of Maynooth\, an MTh from Queen’s University Belfast and recently received a PhD in Theology through Creative Practice at the University of Glasgow exploring poetry\, Irishness\, and religion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARKING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisitor parking is available on the fourth level of Millbrook Garage or in the Danforth University Center (DUC) underground garage. Pull a ticket at the gate when you enter. Parking is free in yellow spaces (you will be ticketed if in a red space) weekdays between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. and on weekends. For more information on parking\, visit parking.wustl.edu/parking/visitor.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-and-conflict-padraig-o-tuama/
LOCATION:Emerson Auditorium\, Knight Hall – Washington University\, 1194 Throop Dr\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63130\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Scott Berzon & Michael Pfeifer
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point.  Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott Berzon earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of the Frank Vincent Memorial Prize\, the Meader Family Award\, and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship. Scott’s creative work has appeared in a variety of publications including Acorn\, Cream City Review\, Humana Obscura\, Poetry Midwest\, Quarter After Eight\, Southern Indiana Review\, and others. Scott lives with his family in St. Louis and works in Jewish communal settings. He serves as a poetry editor for december magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Pfeifer earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and returned to earn an M.A. in English\, studying poetry with Larry Levis. He earned an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop where he studied with Marvin Bell\, Henry Carlile\, Donald Justice and Sandra McPherson. He has published in numerous literary journals and received the 1980 St. Louis Poetry Center Chancellor’s Award\, judged by Howard Nemerov\, and the 1987 Poet Lore Ratner-Ferber Award. He stopped submitting poems for publication in 1998\, but continued writing. He has recently started to again submit work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-march-2025/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Robert Fitterman & Safa Khatib
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo inaugurate our National Poetry Month series of events\, join us for a reading with Robert Fitterman and Safa Khatib\, two poets with ties to Saint Louis whose work innovates across histories\, geographies\, and languages.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with Saint Louis University Department of English and Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCREVE COEUR \n\n\n\nRobert Fitterman’s sixteenth and most ambitious book transposes William Carlos Williams’s postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth-century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape. \n\n\n\nMirroring Paterson’s structure page-for-page\, Fitterman translates Williams’s patchwork of local news stories\, personal letters\, and found historical documents into the landscapes and mythologies of his hometown\, revisiting many of the horrific events of St. Louis and its environs on the way—the East St. Louis massacre\, the demolition of social housing projects\, military chemical testing in the inner city during the Cold War\, and more. Through a weave of verse\, archival documents\, and found language\, Creve Coeur entangles suburban sprawl with the racial violence at the root of American urbanization. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA DRESS OF LOCUSTS \n\n\n\nWoven from threads of Aramaic\, Spanish\, Ancient Greek\, Sumerian and Arabic\, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back and forth to one another. Here\, Safa Khatib journeys across the possibilities of language and self\, asking us to dwell in the thresholds between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROBERT FITTERMAN is the author of 16 books of poetry. His most recent book\, Creve Coeur\, is a long poem recently published with Winter Editions (2024). Other titles include: This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, No\, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself. (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, Nevermind (Wonder Books) and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books). He has collaborated with several visual artists\, including Serkan Ozkaya\, Nayland Blake\, Sabine Herrmann\, Natalie Czech\, Tim Davis\, and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective Collective Task www.collectivetask.org. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSAFA KHATIB is a poet\, translator\, teacher and daughter of South Indian immigrants. She is the author of the forthcoming collection A Dress of Locusts (Bloomsbury 2025). Her current projects include a book of collages provisionally titled return service and “smoke\,” a text written in collaboration with choreographer Cecil Slaughter. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals\, including Words Without Borders\, Baffler\, Kenyon Review and White Review. She is the recipient of support from the US Fulbright Program and the Stadler Center for Poetry\, among other institutions. She is currently a PhD student in the Track for International Writers in the department of Comparative Literature at Washington University in St Louis\, Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/robert-fitterman-safa-khatib/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: erica lewis & Rosalie Moffett
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets erica lewis and Rosalie Moffett for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nerica lewis lives in San Francisco. Her books include the precipice of jupiter (2009\, with artist Mark Stephen Finein)\, camera obscura (2010\, with artist Mark Stephen Finein)\, murmur in the inventory (2013); and the box set trilogy: daryl hall is my boyfriend (2015)\, mary wants to be a superwoman (2017)\, mahogany (2023). She is currently writing a novel inspired by the murder of her maternal grandmother. She was born in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSALIE MOFFETT is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, Nervous System (Ecco\, 2019)\, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden (OSU Press\, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, POETRY Magazine\, New England Review\, and Kenyon Review\, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana\, and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-april-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Andrea Scarpino & Eric Doise
DESCRIPTION:Reading from Chamber after Chamber in a celebration of Saara Myrene Raappana\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaara Myrene Raappana’s poetry is haunting\, beautiful\, and rich with Lake Superior landscapes. It bears witness to both the beauty and violence of rurality and the United States with linguistic whimsy and structural inventiveness. Her most recent book\, Chamber after Chamber\, won the 2023 Juniper Prize for Poetry and is a meditation on the word “heart” and its many meanings. Thoughtful and daring poetry\, Chamber after Chamber was published just days after Saara’s death at age 48. Tonight\, we gather to celebrate her poetry and her writing life in a reading and conversation with Saara’s husband Eric Doise and her friend Andrea Scarpino. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point.  Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrea Scarpino has published the poetry collections Once Upon Wing Lake\, What the Willow Said as it Fell\, and Once\, Then\, and the co-edited anthology Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice. She received a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University\, and an MFA from The Ohio State University. She is also co-editor of Nine Mile Magazine and served as Poet Laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 2015-2017. She teaches at St Louis University High School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Doise is an associate professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University. He has published articles and chapters in several academic journals and anthologies\, including The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma. He earned his PhD from the University of Florida. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-april-2025/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:SLCL Presents: Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with poet Dana Levin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe St. Louis County Library Foundation\, the Favorite Author Series\, Left Bank Books and Saint Louis Poetry Center present National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet\, Mary Jo Bang\, sharing Paradiso\, the conclusion of her celebrated translation of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranslating The Divine Comedy was an ambitious twenty-year undertaking for Bang. There have been very few translations of the entire work by women\, and no other translation has made the trilogy quite as readable and fun by bringing Dante into a twenty-first century vernacular while remaining faithful to the epic narrative of the trilogy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBang will be in conversation with poet Dana Levin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 6:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARADISO \n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang’s translation of Paradiso completes her groundbreaking new version of Dante’s masterpiece\, begun with Inferno and continued with Purgatorio. In Paradiso\, Dante has been purified by his climb up the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory\, and now\, led by the luminous Beatrice\, he begins his ascent through the nine celestial spheres of heaven toward the Empyrean\, the mind of God. Along the way\, we meet the souls of the blessed—those at various proximities to God\, but all existing within the bliss of heaven’s perfect order. Philosophically rich\, spiritually resonant\, Paradiso is a reckoning with justice and morality from a time of ethical questioning and political division much like our own. \n\n\n\nBang’s translation is a revelation in its artistry\, readability\, and faithfulness to Dante’s ambition for an epic poem that dares to employ language and references recognizable to its readers. In her lyric style and her illuminating and generous notes\, Bang has made The Divine Comedy for the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG has published nine collections of poetry\, including Elegy\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and translations of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/slcl-presents-mary-jo-bang/
LOCATION:St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch\, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63131-3598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jet McDonald & Apollo Chastain
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point kicks off the 2025-2026 season with poets Jet McDonald and Apollo Chastain. \n\n\n\nThis special evening also marks the final time our friend and curator Kenneth Pruitt will host the series. After years of shaping Poetry at the Point with heart and creativity\, Kenneth will officially pass the torch to co-curators Macallan Lay and Andy Chen. Join us as we celebrate Kenneth’s remarkable contributions to the series and send him off with gratitude and joy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJet McDonald (they/he) is a writer\, dancer\, and aspiring mime. By day they work as a communications professional based here in St. Louis. Their work has appeared in places like the RFT and Typehouse Literary Magazine\, which nominated one of their poems for a Pushcart Prize. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) and served as UMSL’s sixth Poet Laureate. Lately Jet is most interested in cross-genre work. They are lucky to have a community of loved ones who embody how great the world could really be. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApollo Chastain (ze/hir\, he/him) is either crying in the club or crying in the archive. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets College Prize and nominee for a Pushcart Prize\, Apollo’s creative and academic work has been supported by Tin House and the Smithsonian Institution and appears or is forthcoming in journals including Poets.org\, Meridian\, The Michigan Quarterly Review\, Ninth Letter\, and RHINO\, among others. Ze is an MFA candidate in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. Visit hir at apollopoet.wordpress.com\, or on Instagram @apollo.chastain. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-august-2025/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Mary Jo Bang & Eileen G'Sell
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo kick off the 2025-2026 season\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Mary Jo Bang and Eileen G’Sell for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG has published nine collections of poetry\, including Elegy\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and translations of Dante’s Inferno\, Purgatorio and Paradiso. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEILEEN G’SELL is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Poetry\, Oversound\, Hyperallergic\, The Baffler\, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2023\, she received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism. Her second volume of poetry\, Francofilaments\, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2024; in 2026\, her first nonfiction book\, Lipstick\, will be published as part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-september-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Kieron Walquist
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to help celebrate Kieron Walquist for the release of Our Hands Hold Violence: Poems\, a National Poetry Series winner selected and with a forward by Brenda Hillman. This collection of poems explores rural Missouri\, violence\, queer desire / intimacy\, addiction\, familial and wildlife relationships. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Kieron Walquist’s poems are thrilling. He yokes together violences and intimacies\, arranges language into dazzling and resonant patterns\, and breaks open memory to release music that’s torqued and incandescent. This music is queer\, rooted in Missouri\, and announces the arrival of a voice that sings to and against the place that birthed it.” – Eduardo C. Corral\, author of Guillotine \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOUR HANDS HOLD VIOLENCE: POEMS \n\n\n\nThrough encounters with the everyday beauty and brutality so much a part of rural and urban Missouri\, Our Hands Hold Violence explores what it means to experience and/or perpetuate small and significant acts of violence\, toward others and the self. \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to hunt (be hunted)\, haunt (be haunted)\, and other (be othered)? Abiding by a chronological arc told in four movements ( HERE\, THERE\, TOGETHER\, ALONE)\, OHHV follows the speaker(s) as they come up in the Show Me State and come to terms with queerness\, mental disability\, addiction\, and loneliness in the largely Christian\, conservative\, and hyper-masculine landscape. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKIERON WALQUIST (he/they) is a queer neurospicy poet + visual artist from mid-Missouri. Their work appears in Best New Poets\, Gulf Coast\, IHLR\, The Missouri Review\, Pleiades\, Poet Lore\, Third Coast\, Waxwing\, + elsewhere. Their chapbook\, Love Locks\, was selected by Luther Hughes for the 2022 Quarterly West Chapbook Contest. He holds a BA from Lincoln University of Missouri\, an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis\, and has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center\, Monson Arts\, and Vermont Studio Center. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Utah and lives in Salt Lake City. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-kieron-walquist/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jamie Wendt & Glendal Wallace
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Jamie Wendt and Glendal Wallace. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJamie Wendt is the author of the poetry collection Fruit of the Earth (Main Street Rag\, 2018)\, which won the 2019 National Federation of Press Women Book Award in Poetry. Her second book\, Laughing in Yiddish\, is forthcoming in 2025 by Broadstone Books and was a finalist for the 2022 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. Her poems and essays have been published in various literary journals and anthologies\, including Feminine Rising\, Green Mountains Review\, Lilith\, Jet Fuel Review\, the Forward\, Poetica Magazine\, Catamaran\, and others. She contributes book reviews to the Jewish Book Council. She received a Pushcart Prize Honorable Mention and was nominated for Best Spiritual Literature. She was selected as an International Merit Award winner in the Atlanta Review 2022 International Poetry Competition. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska Omaha. She is a middle school Humanities teacher and lives in Chicago with her husband and two kids. https://jamie-wendt.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlendal Wallace is the author of two poetry collections\, Jewels of Fillmore and Unconnected Thoughts\, and soon to be published\, The Prose We Wear. An educator for over thirty years\, she has published essays\, short stories and in anthologies that inspire\, encourage and educate writers at all levels. She lives with her family in St. Louis where she continues to nurture her creative spirit from enjoying blissful walks and scenic cruise vacations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-october-2025/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED – Observable Readings: Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Claude Canese Jarboe
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLATION / RESCHEDULE NOTICE:\n\n\n\nDue to travel complications\, this event has been rescheduled to March 23\, 2026. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Alyssa LaFaro (Calvocoressi) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Claude Canese Jarboe for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize)\, and Rocket Fantastic\, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in  Marfa\, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation\, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler\, The New York Times\, POETRY\, Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Tin House\, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham\, NC\, where joy\, compassion\, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry\, The New Economy\, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLAUDE CANESE JARBOE is the author of SISSY (Garden-Door Press\, 2024). Jarboe is the 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow and managing editor of Pleiades at University of Central Missouri\, and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\, Tallgrass Artist Residency\, and Nō Studios. Their work has recently appeared in venues such as POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and Traffic East\, to name a few. Born and raised on a farm in rural southeastern Kansas\, Jarboe currently resides near Kansas City with their fiancée\, Andi. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-november-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:SLCL Presents: Billy Collins
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Erin Quick\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a ticketed event. The reading will be held in-person at St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe St. Louis County Library Foundation\, the Favorite Author Series\, Left Bank Books and Saint Louis Poetry Center present former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins\, author of Dog Show: Poems. In conversation with Erin Quick\, executive director of Saint Louis Poetry Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins captures the essence and mystery of dogs in this special collection of poems inspired by our beloved companions\, with striking watercolor canine portraits by Pamela Sztybel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKET INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets can be purchased through Eventbrite. Seating will be offered on a first-come\, first-served basis.  A book signing line will follow the presentation. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nINDIVIDUAL TICKET – $28Admits ONE and includes one copy of “Dog Show” \n\n\n\nOR \n\n\n\nPACKAGE TICKET – $35Admits TWO and includes one copy of “Dog Show” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 6:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDOG SHOW: POEMS \n\n\n\nBilly Collins’s Dog Show celebrates the joy of our canine best friends\, honoring the love we feel for the animals who play such vital roles in our lives. In twenty-five poems\, Collins distills the many ways dogs warm our hearts\, from the happiness we experience as we watch a dog run unencumbered by our burdens\, to the silliness of cradling a dog in our arms as we step on the scale together. Turning his inimitable eye and ear to the complexities of dog behavior\, Collins ponders all that these winning creatures give us and what we learn from them about ourselves. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more than four decades Collins has delighted readers with his insight\, wit\, and clear poetic voice. In Dog Show\, “America’s favorite poet” ( The Wall Street Journal) illuminates America’s favorite pet (sorry\, cat lovers). Accompanied by Pamela Sztybel’s watercolors\, which effortlessly depict a dog’s humble grace\, Dog Show reveals the profound role these majestic animals play in our lives and the meaning they give us. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBILLY COLLINS is the author of fifteen collections of poetry\, including Sailing Alone Around the Room\, Aimless Love and\, most recently\, Water\, Water. He served two terms as United State Poet Laureate and is a former Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and New York State Poet. He is a New York Public Library Literary Lion and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently “between dogs\,” his most recent an Australian Shepherd mix named Jeannine. He lives in Winter Park\, Florida\, with his wife Suzannah. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/slcl-presents-billy-collins-2025/
LOCATION:St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch\, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63131-3598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Kamau Walker & Lydia Golitz
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Kamau Walker and Lydia Golitz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKAMAU WALKER is a poet from St. Louis\, Missouri\, currently enrolled in his third year as an MFA poetry candidate at the University of Virginia. He previously received a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University and spent time before his MFA program working as a high school teacher at John Burroughs School in St. Louis. He continues his love of ecology through his writing while also exploring community\, love\, music\, and the importance of the aforementioned in the presence of environmental degradation and systemically permitted/propagated discrimination and violence\, with the hope of understanding himself and the world around him. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLYDIA GOLITZ is a second-year MFA student at Washington University in St. Louis. She was born and raised in Chicago. Her work is published in Black Warrior Review\, Seneca Review\, Washington Square Review\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-january-2026/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Keetje Kuipers & Aaron Coleman
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Marcus Jackson (Coleman) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Keetje Kuipers and Aaron Coleman for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKEETJE KUIPERS is the author of four books of poetry from BOA Editions\, and the Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Northwest. Her collection Lonely Women Make Good Lovers is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award\, and was called “elegant\, earthy\, [and] pertinent\,” by Marilyn Hacker. Her first book\, Beautiful in the Mouth\, won the A. Poulin\, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her subsequent books\, The Keys to the Jail and All Its Charms\, include poems honored with publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje’s poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and over a hundred other publications. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, a Bread Loaf Fellow\, the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident\, a former board member and Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle\, and is the recipient of a 2025 NEA fellowship. She lives in Montana with her wife and children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAARON COLEMAN is a poet\, translator\, educator\, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts\, Cave Canem\, the Fulbright Program\, and the American Literary Translators Association. His debut poetry collection\, Threat Come Close\, was the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award\, and his chapbook\, St. Trigger\, won the Button Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén’s 1967 collection\, The Great Zoo\, selected for the Phoenix Poet Series by University of Chicago Press. His poems\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New York Times\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, and Poetry Magazine. From Metro-Detroit\, Coleman has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain\, South Africa\, Chicago\, St. Louis\, and Kalamazoo. He is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-february-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Claude Canese Jarboe
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Alyssa LaFaro (Calvocoressi) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Claude Canese Jarboe for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize)\, and Rocket Fantastic\, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in  Marfa\, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation\, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler\, The New York Times\, POETRY\, Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Tin House\, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham\, NC\, where joy\, compassion\, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry\, The New Economy\, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLAUDE CANESE JARBOE is the author of SISSY (Garden-Door Press\, 2024). Jarboe is the 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow and managing editor of Pleiades at University of Central Missouri\, and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\, Tallgrass Artist Residency\, and Nō Studios. Their work has recently appeared in venues such as POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and Traffic East\, to name a few. Born and raised on a farm in rural southeastern Kansas\, Jarboe currently resides near Kansas City with their fiancée\, Andi. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-march-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Angel C. Dye & Lindsay McHugh
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Angel C. Dye and Lindsay McHugh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nANGEL C. DYE is a poet and professor of African American Literature with roots in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin and Dallas-Ft. Worth\, Texas. Dye received her B.A. in English from Howard University\, her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky\, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literatures from Rutgers. She is the author of two poetry collections entitled BREATHE (2021) and My Mouth a Constant Prayer (2023)\, and her work has appeared widely in journals and magazines. Dye teaches courses on Black women’s writing\, Harlem Renaissance Literature & Culture\, and more at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLINDSAY McHUGH is a poet and journalist based in St. Louis. Her debut chapbook\, un-memory\, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2025. She publishes journalism under the byline Lindsay Toler. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-march-2026/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Aiden Heung
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with poet Mary Jo Bang\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Poetry Month Celebration! We are thrilled to partner with Left Bank Books to welcome Aiden Heung and Mary Jo Bang for a night of poetry celebrating the new release of All There Is to Lose by Aiden Heung. Heung holds an MFA in creative writing from Washington University. He is the 2024 winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the DISQUIET Prize\, a winner of the International Proverse Poetry Prize\, and the recipient of 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize\, selected by Diane Seuss. Join us for a reading and book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“What I love most in this book is how the images and details carry emotion via perspective\, while lyrical in turn of phrase. Often understated\, pared down\, the poetry lives here in specifics that emote: A mother scrubs clean the headstone carvings\, a man remembers laughing after he watched his father enter the river twenty years ago\, travelers sleep with their heads on greasy bags. Each detail carries an undertow of emotion.” – Ilya Kaminsky\, Judge of the 2024 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALL THERE IS TO LOSE \n\n\n\nMarking Aiden Heung’s debut collection\, All There Is to Lose is the 2024 winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. The selecting judge\, National Book Award Finalist Ilya Kaminsky\, praises the resonant particularities and depth of feeling found in these poems\, which convert “elegy [into] its driving force.” Poet and Critic Felicity Plunkett observes\, “Dreams and memory move through these porous\, venturesome poems. The spectral jostles with the sensual to tell ‘a story in which I could be found.’ Achily tender\, they open to light\, love and the jab of a joke.” Poet David Tait notes\, “Unsettling and luminous\, the poems preserve the memory of Village 915: its volatile seasons and hard-worn inhabitants\, its headstones\, spirits\, and myriad forms of water. Here you’ll find not only poems of lyrical beauty\, but of grim exactness.” The result is a stunning achievement of a first book\, what Kaminsky identifies as an exemplar of “that ages-old mode of poetry wherein the poet uses language to break bread with the dead\, to bring them back to life\, if only for the moment\, for a portion of the moment\, an instant\, before the line breaks.” Channeling the poet as medium\, “I am the tension on the bow that draws the arrow\,” Heung writes in “Epilogue.” “To lose myself — that is my destiny.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAIDEN HEUNG (he/they) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous town. After working as a traveling salesman for years\, he recently relocated to St. Louis\, USA. His poems have been published in Australian Poetry Journal\, Harvard Review\, The Kenyon Review\, The Yale Review\, 声韵诗刊 (Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine)\, and many other places. He is a finalist for the DISQUIET Prize\, a winner of the International Proverse Poetry Prize\, and the recipient of 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize\, selected by Diane Seuss. He and his work have been generously supported by Varuna\, The National Writers’ House (Australia) and Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency (Switzerland/ Shanghai\, China). He holds an MFA in creative writing from Washington University. \n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG has published nine collections of poetry\, including Elegy\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and translations of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-aiden-heung/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Teresa Dzieglewicz & C. Russell Price
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Teresa Dzieglewicz and C. Russell Price for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTERESA DZIEGLEWICZ is a poet\, educator\, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute\, a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center\, and part of the founding team of Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School). With Natasha Mijares\, she organizes “Watershed: Ways of Seeing the Chicago River”. Her first book of poetry\, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children’s book\, Belonging\, co-written with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize\, Best New Poets\, the Gingko Prize\, the Auburn Witness Prize\, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, Community of Writers at Tahoe\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, and Brooklyn Poets. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago\, on Potawatomi land.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC. RUSSELL PRICE is the author of oh\, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems and Tonight\, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other. Their newest collection Bisquick: An American Seance will be published in August 2026 by Northwestern University Press. They are a poet in residence at the Chicago Poetry Center\, a Lambda Fellow\, a Ragdale Fellow\, Literary Death Match champion\, and two-time Lit 50 honoree. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-april-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Miguel Barretto-García & Nicole Brunette
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Miguel Barretto-García & Nicole Brunette. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMIGUEL BARRETTO-GARCÍA is a spoken word performer and neuroscientist in St. Louis. Their poems have appeared or have been in accepted in The Iowa Review\, Poetry Northwest\, & Change\, Wildness\, Rhino Poetry\, and Rattle\, among others. They have previously performed in the spoken word and poetry slam circuits in Switzerland and the US\, notably at the Zurich Theatre Spectacle\, The Chicago Filipino American Theatre Festival\, and Goodie House in St. Louis. They completed their PhD in Neuroecoconomics at the University of Zürich and they are currently a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNICOLE BRUNETTE is a St. Louis native with a lifelong fascination for the things that scare her most. When she isn’t researching unsettling topics or working as a bookseller\, she writes about the strange and beautiful world of bugs. Nicole recently completed her MFA\, finishing her poetry thesis Anamnesis\, a collection that blends her earlier work with original art and photography. Her writing has appeared in several online\, music-centered magazines. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry at the Point series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-april-2026/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Glendal Wallace: The Words We Wear
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us at the St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch for an evening of inspiration with local author and poet Glendal Wallace\, for the launch of her book The Words We Wear. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRefreshments provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE WORDS WE WEAR \n\n\n\nWallace hits all the high notes well and avoids the dangers\, and that is high praise. “Words Take Their Own Journey” gives a clear vision of how the musicality and drive of oral tradition can land\, delicately and with gentle authority. The poem speaks out to a wide audience but feels personal. “Weep America II” is such a fine poem\, exploring in one compressed space the pain\, self-deceit\, ignorance that we all suffer from being “stuck” where we are now. It’s the poem all of us need desperately\, right now. \n\n\n\n– Rebecca Ellis\, Distinguished Poet and Master Naturalist\, University of Illinois \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGLENDAL WALLACE is the author of three poetry collections\, Jewels of Fillmore\, Unconnected Thoughts\, and  The Words We Wear. An educator for over thirty years\, she has published essays\, short stories and in anthologies that inspire\, encourage and educate writers at all levels. She lives with her family in St. Louis where she continues to nurture her creative spirit from enjoying blissful walks and scenic cruise vacations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriends of Glendal Wallace
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/slcl-glendal-wallace-june-2026/
LOCATION:St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch\, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63131-3598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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