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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Chris Watkins & Grace McGovern
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\nPHOTO CREDIT: Darla Winn (Watkins) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Chris Watkins & Grace McGovern. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHRYSANTHEMUM (CHRIS) BROOK WATKINS is a trans poet/writer\, environmental activist\, and author of The Drag Gospel of Queer Jesus. Chris lives in North Florida and spends as much time as she can on the water and in the swamps. A proud board member of Apalachicola Riverkeeper\, Chris received their PhD in Poetry with a focus in Ecopoetics and Environmental Writing\, Poetic Forms\, and Queer Literature\, studying at Florida State University. Chris now works as the Academics and Partnerships Coordinator at FSU’s Office of Sustainability (Sustainable Campus) and teaches both writing and sustainability courses. Her recent work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem a Day series\, in Poetry\, Ecotone\, and Terrain.org among other publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGRACE MCGOVERN is a poet whose work is concerned with the lyric voice\, lesbian domesticity and interiority\, and sites of simultaneous unease and tenderness—as well as kitschy figurines of all kinds. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. She was born in Rhode Island and now lives in St. Louis with her wife and their dog and two cats. \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-august-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: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
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/mati-poetry-in-motion-2026/
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:MoBot & SLPC Present: Kristin Emanuel & Amie Whittemore
DESCRIPTION:a collaboration with Missouri Botanical Garden\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Missouri Botanical Garden and Saint Louis Poetry Center in celebrating the launch of the debut poetry collection by Kristin Emanuel\, who will be reading with Amie Whittemore. Copies of Birdwatching in the 4th Dimension and Nest of Matches will be available for purchase from the poets. All proceeds from Kristin’s book sales will benefit STAR – St. Louis Avian Rescue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the poetry reading\, guests are invited to tour Missouri Botanical Garden’s Peter H. Raven Library & Archives at the Bayer Center research institute. \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 BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBirdwatching in the 4th Dimension  \n\n\n\nWith percussive alacrity Birdwatching in the 4th Dimension attunes us to the precarity and blinding wonder of life in ages past and present. Joy and mourning mingle in these startling poems\, mapped onto the fossil record and the humdrum calamities of the Anthropocene. In Emanuel’s poems\, the beat of a heard it enough to conjure crustaceans and crocuses\, megatheriea and mantises; it is enough to make them dance in the cosmic matrix of evolution\, death\, and rebirth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNest of Matches  \n\n\n\nNest of Matches is a lavish declaration of the beauty of the natural world\, queer identity\, and of the imagination set free. Whittemore’s third collection explores the complexities of love—romantic\, familial\, and love for place—and wonders at cycles of life\, finding that: “Every habit / even love—strangest / of them all—offers exhaustion / and renewal.” Moving seamlessly from meditations on the moon’s phases to explorations of dream spaces to searches for meaning through patterns of love and loss\, Whittemore’s work embodies the mysteries of dichotomies—grief and joy\, consciousness and unconsciousness\, habit and spontaneity—and how they coexist to create our identities. Throughout the collection\, Whittemore reveals how interior nature manifests into exterior habits and how physical landscapes shape the psyche. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT STAR-ST. LOUIS AVIAN RESCUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTAR’s mission is to improve and enrich the lives of parrots through rescue\, rehabilitative fostering\, adoption and education. STAR is a foster-based organization. Birds who enter their adoption program are placed in foster homes\, with the eventual goal of placement in forever homes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo learn more\, visit: https://staravian.org/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKRISTIN EMANUEL holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Kansas where she studied eco-fabulism and the comics poetry movement. Her latest poems\, comics\, and essays have appeared in The Rumpus\, Ecotone\, and Blackbird\, with new work forthcoming in Poetry Northwest and Sugar House Review. You can find a list of her selected publications at: https://kristinemanuel.com/. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAMIE WHITTEMORE (she/her) is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro\, Tennessee\, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards\, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize\, and her writing has appeared in Blackbird\, Colorado Review\, Terrain.org\, Pleiades\, and elsewhere.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE PETER H. RAVEN LIBRARY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissouri Botanical Garden’s Peter H. Raven Library & Archives is globally recognized as one of the most comprehensive libraries of botanical literature in the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Library is vital to the Garden’s mission “to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment\, in order to preserve and enrich life.” It serves as an invaluable and irreplaceable resource that supports the work of Garden scientists\, students\, and researchers from around the globe seeking to better understand\, identify\, classify\, and conserve plants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information\, visit the library’s website. \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\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT ORGANIZERS
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/mobot-presents-june-2026/
LOCATION:Missouri Botanical Garden – Bayer Center\, 4500 Shaw Blvd.\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63110\, United States
CATEGORIES: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: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: 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: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: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: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: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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251117T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251030T190000
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SUMMARY:EVENT CANCELLED - Poemtober: Halloween Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLATION NOTICE:\n\n\n\nDue to illness\, this event has been canceled. Have a safe and fun Halloween! \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 partner with Inktober this year to bring you Poemtober. In conjunction with Poemtober\, Saint Louis Poetry Center invites you to a special Halloween open mic! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm.Reading begins at 7:00pmCostumes encouraged \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE PARTY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome share your Poemtober poems at our Halloween open mic\, and bring your friends! Featuring: \n\n\n\n\nPoemtober Open Mic\n\n\n\nMusic and Costumes\n\n\n\nSnacks & Cash Bar\n\n\n\n\nYou do not need to participate in the open mic to attend the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT POEMTOBER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEach day throughout October\, we post a new word prompt to our social media channels. Use that word to inspire your writing\, and then come share your work at this community reading. We are here to support and encourage writers. We hope this project helps us all shift from that summertime haze into a place of creative generation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poemtober-reading-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251028T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251028T193000
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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:The Future is Female Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:A Night of Feminist Art & Action\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held in-person at 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a night of art & action! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us at the 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis for an inspiring evening celebrating the exhibition The Future is Female\, featuring top feminist artists from around the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain\, creator of Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring\, returns on October 8 for a special event including\, a welcome by 21c Museum Hotel’s Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites\, an artist talk and the premiere of Shlain’s film We Are Here\, a 7 minute film about the ideas and process behind Dendrofemonology\, and a panel discussion with local leaders advancing women’s rights along with a reading by Poet Laureate of St. Louis\, Pacia Elaine Anderson.  Learn more about the event and the panelists here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis and Women Connect4Good\, this promises to be a powerful night of art\, action\, and inspiration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReception & Light Bites: 5:00–6:00 pm\n\n\n\nWelcome\, Talk & Panel Discussion: 6:00–7:15 pm\n\n\n\n7 minute film premiere\n\n\n\nClosing reading by St. Louis Poet Laureate Pacia Anderson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE FUTURE IS FEMALE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future is Female” highlights the impact of the art of the Second Wave Women’s movement on today’s cultural landscape while examining contemporary definitions of female identity and experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGleaming acrylic fingernails glued into patterned\, reptilian forms that emerge from the wall; female anatomy rendered in neon light and boxing gloves; haunting words about the present overlaid on imagery of the past: surface tension abounds in this exploration of contemporary feminist art. The broad range of media and subject matter presented reflects the ongoing influence of the art of the second-wave women’s liberation movement\, which engendered unprecedented cultural change\, shifting art-making out of the isolated studio and hallowed institutions into both more intimate domestic and broader public spheres. The ensuing transformation ushered in generations of artists addressing identity\, the body\, and the affirmation of personal experience. As critic Laura Cottingham writes\, “[contemporary] art engaged with sexuality\, conscious politics\, gender roles\,…first person video\, autobiography\, and performance is directly indebted to the space opened up for new media and new content by the feminist art movement in the seventies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTIFFANY SHLAIN Artist\, Emmy-nominated filmmaker\, & Webby Awards founder \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBRITTANY HUGHES Community organizer for ACLU MO \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHILLARY ELFENBEIN John K. Wallace\, Jr. and Ellen A. Wallace Distinguished Professor & Professor of Organizational Behavior at WashU \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMIRANDA RECTENWALD Curator of Local History\, WashU \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPACIA ELAINE ANDERSON Poet Laureate of St. Louis \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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/the-future-is-female-exhibition/
LOCATION:21c Museum Hotel St. Louis\, 1528 Locust St\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks,Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250922T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250826T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250826T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250602T200000
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SUMMARY:Saint Louis Poet Laureate Coronation Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Saint Louis Board of Aldermen and the Poet Laureate Task Force\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be held in-person at the City Hall Rotunda. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPacia Elaine Anderson was officially appointed and sworn in as the fourth Poet Laureate for the City of St.Louis. The Saint Louis Poet Laureate will promote the art of poetry and encourage literacy and learning throughout the St. Louis region. Pacia collaborates as a poet\, visual and teaching artist\, creative consultant\, arts administrator\, and community caregiver with numerous groups and individuals\, from large institutions to small organizations\, both locally and nationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Being named the fourth Poet Laureate of the city of St. Louis is a tremendous honor\,” Anderson said. “I look forward to continuing the work of our poetic and cultural forbearers while amplifying new ideas and ways of engaging with the art form and using poetry as a method of gathering us together in the spirit of collectivism that provides the loving connection that moves humanity forward.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the press release >>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT DETAILS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDrum call with NGOMA\n\n\n\nWords from Mrs. Adelia Parker-Castro\, Lyah LeFlore-Ituen\, Jane Ellen Ibur\, Dr. Eugene B. Redmond & MK Sadiq\n\n\n\nFood from Parker’s Table\n\n\n\nFree parking in the Clark-side lot\n\n\n\nAll ages\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPacia Elaine Anderson is a visual\, spoken\, and teaching word artist who currently serves as the Program Lead of the Regional Arts Commission’s Community Arts Training Institute\, Program Coordinator for Good Journey Development Foundation\, and as a teaching artist with a host of regional organizations. She is the Missouri-St. Louis City Regional Coordinator for Poetry Out Loud\, the NEA’s national recitation competition. The St. Louis Visionary Awards named Pacia the Community Impact Artist for 2020-2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor several years Pacia served as assistant to inaugural St. Louis Poet Laureate Dr. Michael Castro. She is an Urban Bush Women SLI and a New Leaders Council-St. Louis alumnus\, and a founding member of the youth-based art camp Cherokee Street Reach. She also served as the past Liaison for the Great Rivers Greenway Artists of Color Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPacia has served as a consulting artist and national workshop facilitator with Americans for the Arts’ Artists at the Community Development Table initiative and serves on the boards of Saint Louis Poetry Center\, Volunteer Lawyers and Accounts for the Arts\, and The St. Louis Art Place Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poet-laureate-coronation-ceremony/
LOCATION:City of St. Louis – City Hall\, 1200 Market Street\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63103-2826\, United States
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250516T183000
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SUMMARY:EVENT CANCELED - 2025 SLPC Contests Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLATION NOTICE:\n\n\n\nDue to the severe weather and its impact on road conditions and safety\, this event has been canceled. Please watch for a reschedule date to be announced. Stay safe! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be held in-person at High Low and also streamed live to this event page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center celebrates the winners of the 2025 poetry contests\, including the Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest for High School Students and the James H. Nash Poetry Contest. \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPECIAL THANKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Hopkins Contest would not be possible without the efforts and support of volunteer contest coordinator and local poet Emily Koehn.  Thank you! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Nash Contest would not be possible without the efforts and support of volunteer contest coordinator and local poet Ted Mathys.  Thank you! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd special thanks to our spring 2025 student intern Ezra Harris (Metro Academic and Classical High School) for supporting both contests! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 HOPKINS CONTEST WINNERS & HONORABLE MENTIONS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected by 2025 contest judge Niki Herd \n\n\n\n\n\nFIRST PLACEScarlet Brothers\, Nerinx Hall High SchoolMeanwhile on Earth \n\n\n\nSECOND PLACEIsabelle Cox-Garleanu\, MICDSTo Believe \n\n\n\nTHIRD PLACELucy Divis\, Metro Academic & Classical High SchoolAlphabet Homily \n\n\n\n\n\nHONORABLE MENTIONSIsabelle Cox-Garleanu\, MICDSromanian rhapsody \n\n\n\nScarlet Brothers\, Nerinx Hall High SchoolImagine I Make it Out Alive \n\n\n\nBera Ozkaya\, Gateway Science AcademyFishermen at Sea \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 NASH CONTEST WINNER & FINALIST\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected by 2025 contest judge Daniel Borzutzky \n\n\n\n\n\nFIRST PLACEJill MceldowneyParadise Woods \n\n\n\n\n\nFINALISTOliverdesertification poemTime Magazine:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/2025-slpc-contests-award-ceremony/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Outside LitMag Issue 9 Release
DESCRIPTION:The event will be held in-person at High Low and also streamed live to this event page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMade for and by Saint Louis Public School high school students\, Outside Literary Magazine is thrilled to release Issue 9. This special event will celebrate the talented young artists who have worked hard to make this magazine possible. Students will come together to share their work with the wider community. Many of the contributors will be performing their pieces for the first time! Copies of Issue 9 will be available for purchase at the event. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPECIAL THANKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutside Literary Magazine would not be possible without the tireless efforts of the partnering schools and classroom teachers.  Thank you! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Sponsor:Margaret SchuhTeacher:Kelly Terry (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Sponsors:Chandra AlfordNicole HalamanTeacher:John Tevlin (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nTeachers:Colette Morton (ELA)Logan Allgood (ELA)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNERS\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUPPORTERS
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/outside-litmag-issue-9-release/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition,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: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: 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: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: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: 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:A Night of Poetry featuring JoAnna Novak\, Eileen G'Sell & Safa Khatib
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we welcome three fantastic local poets JoAnna Novak\, Eileen G’Sell\, and Safa Khatib to share their new work. \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\nDOMESTIREXIA: POEMSby JoAnna Novak \n\n\n\nHome can be a space of both resistance and discomfort that one desires or takes pleasure in enjoying. Rote notions of home and the domestic are reimagined in these poems as estranging\, excessive\, and populated by unknowable characters. Exploring themes of family\, sacrifice\, disease\, death\, money\, cooking\, romance\, sex\, art\, and the visceral qualities of the everyday\, the poems twist themselves into binds for the reader to undo or surrender to. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFRANCOFILAMENTSby Eileen G’Sell \n\n\n\nVacillating between prose and verse\, Francofilaments presents a varied sojourn through a woman’s trials and tribulations as reimagined\, and filtered through\, French culture and film. Several poems are based on\, or excerpt from\, interviews G’Sell conducted with French or French-speaking actors and filmmakers—including Juliette Binoche\, Celine Sciamma\, and Isabelle Huppert—while others excerpt from an extensive list of reviews and essays published on Francophone cinema. In investigating Francophilia\, G’Sell likewise plumbs the depths of national\, gendered\, and racial identity. While her background as a critic informs many of these poems\, the collection is also based in part on her experience as a single woman in her thirties—chronicling romantic (mis)adventures as well as orbiting more serious themes around sexuality\, mortality\, and pregnancy loss. This volume is a cinematic excavation of interiority—the author’s\, but also that which we see and hear onscreen.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoAnna Novak‘s memoir Contradiction Days was published by Catapult in July 2023. Her short story collection Meaningful Work won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is the author of the novel I Must Have You and three books of poetry: New Life; Abeyance\, North America; and Noirmania. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and other publications. \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\, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in late 2024; in 2025\, 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\nSafa Khatib is a writer and teacher living in St. Louis. She is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection A Dress of Locusts (Bloomsbury 2025). \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-joanna-novak-eileen-gsell-safa-khatib/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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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: 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: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:Outside LitMag Issue 8 Release
DESCRIPTION:The event 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\nMade for and by Saint Louis Public School high school students\, Outside Literary Magazine is thrilled to release Issue 8. This special event will celebrate the talented young artists who have worked hard to make this magazine possible. Students will come together to share their work with the wider community. Many of the contributors will be performing their pieces for the first time! Copies of Issue 8 will be available for purchase at the event. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPECIAL THANKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutside Literary Magazine would not be possible without the tireless efforts of the partnering schools and classroom teachers.  Thank you! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Sponsor:Margaret SchuhTeacher:Kelly Terry (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Sponsors:Chandra AlfordNicole HalamanTeacher:John Tevlin (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nTeachers:Colette Morton (ELA)Logan Allgood (ELA)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNERS\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPONSORS\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\nWill Flores Fund
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/outside-litmag-issue-8-release/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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