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SUMMARY:An Evening of Emily Dickinson
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the Birthday and Poetry of Emily Dickinsona collaboration with Babler Poetry Society\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn celebration of Emily Dickinson’s birthday\, the Babler Poetry Society\, in collaboration with Saint Louis Poetry Center\, is delighted to present An Evening of Emily Dickinson. Known for her originality and sly wit\, Dickinson shaped American poetry with her short\, sharp lines and gift for image-making. Her poems\, by turns playful and mysterious\, continue to surprise and inspire readers around the world. Join us as we honor one of literature’s most brilliant and unconventional voices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors Open & Light Bites: 6:30–7:00 pm\n\n\n\nReading & Discussion: 7:00–8:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged but not required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE READERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDANA LEVIN is the author of five books poetry. Her latest is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon)\, a 2022 New York Times Notable Book and NPR “Book We Love.” She is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, and the Library of Congress\, as well as from the Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin teaches for the Bennington Writing Seminars\, the MFA program at Bennington College\, and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. Her first book of prose\, House of Feels\, comes out from Graywolf Press in 2027. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMELISSA QUALLS has taught literature\, composition\, and creative writing in the English department at Lindenwood University since 2002. She earned her MFA from Lindenwood University in 2018 and is an active member of Saint Louis Poetry Center\, Babler Poetry Society\, and Poetry in the Woods (2023\, 2024\, & 2025). Most recently\, her poem “They look so small\, lying there” won Honorable Mention in the 2024 Wednesday Club Original Poetry competition\, she has published two poems “For Nora” and “Wednesday Afternoon\, April 4th” in Nine Mile Literary Magazine (Fall 2024)\, and her poem “Wabi Sabi” won first place in Saturday Writers “Anything Goes” Contest (March 2025). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTEDDY NORRIS is a retired professor of English who taught composition\, poetry\, and creative writing for two decades and edited a community college literary journal for five years. Her work has appeared in various journals\, including Adanna\, Broad River Review\, Cable Street\, Flying South\, Kakalak\, Little Patuxent Review\, and The Switchgrass Review. She is the author of two chapbooks\, Pillars of Salt and In Transit\, published by Finishing Line Press and The Poetry Box\, respectively. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKRISTIN EMANUEL is a PhD candidate researching poetry and poetics at Washington University in St. Louis. Her debut poetry collection\, Birdwatching in the 4th Dimension\, was recently selected by Shann Ray as the winner of the 2025 Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize\, and it will be published by Willow Springs Books in early 2026. Poems from this collection have appeared or are forthcoming in Ecotone\, Boston Review\, and Poetry Northwest. \n\n\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\nBabler Poetry Society\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT ORGANIZERS
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/an-evening-of-emily-dickinson/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks,Poetry Reading
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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
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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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SUMMARY:MATI Conference: Write On - Poetry at the Confluence
DESCRIPTION:How St. Louis and East St. Louis Changed American Arts and Culture Through Poetry\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held in-person at High Low.  RSVP required. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to co-present Shirley Bradley LeFlore Foundation’s Poetry in Motion panel for Music at the Intersection! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE PANEL & SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite On: Poetry at the ConfluenceHow St. Louis and East St. Louis Changed American Arts and Culture Through Poetry \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne River. Two Cities. Infinite Voices. \n\n\n\nPresented during Music at the Intersection (MATI) weekend\, this gathering brings together literary giants and cultural visionaries to explore how poetry has shaped the artistic\, cultural\, and social fabric of our bi-state region. \n\n\n\nThe conversation will trace the enduring connections between St. Louis and East St. Louis—from the legacy of the 1917 East St. Louis Race Massacre and the Civil Rights Movement\, to the transformative influence of Katherine Dunham\, the iconic Black Artists Group (BAG)\, and the artists carrying that legacy forward today. \n\n\n\nUsing the Mississippi River as both metaphor and meeting place\, this unforgettable conversation celebrates poetry as a force for truth-telling\, cultural memory\, artistic innovation\, and social change while honoring the enduring creative bond between our two cities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured panelists: \n\n\n\n\nDr. Eugene B. Redmond\n\n\n\nTerry “Kujaliwa” Kennedy\n\n\n\nPacia Elaine Anderson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMODERATED BY: Dr. Jason Vasser-Elong\n\n\n\nHOSTED BY: Lyah B. LeFlore-Ituen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite On: Poetry at the Confluence is presented as part of the 2026 MATI Conference. MATI’s annual thought leadership conference provides free panels\, keynote discussions and networking opportunities targeted at artists\, creatives and entrepreneurs. Attending the Conference is free but requires an RSVP. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA MATI Conference RSVP is required to attend this panel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMATI – Learn More\n\n\n\n\n\nMATI – RSVP for Write On\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED BY\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\n\n\n\n\nEVENT ORGANIZER
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/mati-write-on-poetry-at-the-confluence/
LOCATION:Missouri
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:MATI Block Party: Poetry in Motion
DESCRIPTION:St. Louis Poets Take the Mic\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to co-present Shirley Bradley LeFlore Foundation’s Poetry in Motion reading for Music at the Intersection! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSCHEDULE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDrum Voices Take The Mic5:00–6:30 PM \n\n\n\n\nEileen G’Sell\n\n\n\nJacqui Germain\n\n\n\nTravis Massotti\n\n\n\nDavid A.N. Jackson\n\n\n\nCheryl DS Walker and Kamau OS Walker \n\n\n\nSpecial Tribute: Lyah Beth LeFlore-Ituen leads a collective tribute honoring beloved St. Louis poets\, artists\, musicians\, and cultural leaders\, including Ruth Garnett\, Ira Jones\, and Darrell Mixon\, whose work continues to inspire our creative community.\n\n\n\nGuest Musician Stanley Coleman\n\n\n\n\nUnapologetic Voices Of The D9 & HBCU’s Take The Mic6:45–8:00 PM \n\n\n\n\nMari Carter\n\n\n\nLouis Conphliction\n\n\n\nAja La’Starr\n\n\n\nMaurice Minor\n\n\n\nMiss Interpretation\n\n\n\nSteph’on Rigginx \n\n\n\nDr. Jason Vasser-Elong\n\n\n\nJaye Willis\n\n\n\n\nWord Warriors Take The Mic Featuring The Ish Ensemble8:15–9:30 PM \n\n\n\n\nKMoney The Poet\n\n\n\nBrooking Caldwell\, featuring Karin Bliznik on trumpet\n\n\n\nPoet Lightening\n\n\n\nAaron (Al) Smith\n\n\n\nCheeraz Gormon\n\n\n\n\nA Celebration of 80 Years of WordsPresented by Saint Louis Poetry Center9:45–10:45 PM \n\n\n\nJoin poets\, writers\, artists\, and supporters from across the region as we celebrate Saint Louis Poetry Center’s 80th Anniversary and close out an incredible day of poetry\, conversation\, and community. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BLOCK PARTY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry in Motion: St. Louis Poets Take the Mic is presented as part of the 2026 MATI Block Party. This event is free and open to the public. From 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday\, July 17 and 18\, MATI is activating Grand Center Arts District with live music\, a performance art stage\, a roller skating rink\, pop-up fashion shows\, mural and art exhibits\, poetry\, local vendors\, and tastes of St. Louis’ favorite culinary dishes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMATI Block Party – Learn More\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED BY\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\n\n\n\n\nEVENT ORGANIZER
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LOCATION:Missouri
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