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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
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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: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: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
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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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