Saint Louis Poetry Center

Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
2023-07-09 23:59 (America/Chicago)
The rescheduled Sunday Workshop with Allison Joseph will take place on July 16, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

The workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person.

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshop

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

ABOUT THE POET

ALLISON JOSEPH lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press, 2021, winner of the Best Book of 2021 Award from Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference), Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books, 2022), Speak and Spell (Glass Lyre Press, 2022), and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award in Poetry. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. Her next book, Dwelling, will be published by Red Hen in 2025. Her chapbook Recover will be published in 2024 by Word Poetry. She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble.

Poetry at the Point: Daniel Biegelson, Kat Carroll & Tim Rowden
2023-06-27 19:30 | Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, MO, 63143, United States
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.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Daniel Biegelson is the author of the book of being neighbors (Ricochet Editions) and the chapbook Only the Borrowed Light (VERSE). He serves as the Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Northwest Missouri State University, where he also works as an editor for The Laurel Review. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana and an MA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He hails from New Jersey and lives near Kansas City with his wife and two kids. Find him at danielbiegelson.com.

Kat Carroll is a poet, artist, and climate-focused clean energy researcher. Kat is from Omaha, Nebraska originally, where she received a Bachelors of Environmental Science at Creighton University, and recently moved from New York, where she completed a Masters in Environmental Policy at Bard College. She recently completed the second of two chapbooks.

Tim Rowden is a poet, journalist and suicide loss survivor. Following the loss of his son, Ian, in 2021, he found refuge and healing in poetry. His poems chart a journey through grief, loss healing and forgiveness and are part of a chapbook in development. Tim is the editor of the St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune, founder of The Grief Project and a presenter for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Sunday Workshop: Allison Joseph - CANCELLED
2023-06-25 13:30 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
This workshop has been cancelled & rescheduled to July 16, 2023.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. Learn more >>

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshop

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: June 18, 2023

ABOUT THE POET

ALLISON JOSEPH lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press, 2021, winner of the Best Book of 2021 Award from Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference), Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books, 2022), Speak and Spell (Glass Lyre Press, 2022), and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award in Poetry. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. Her next book, Dwelling, will be published by Red Hen in 2025. Her chapbook Recover will be published in 2024 by Word Poetry. She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble.

Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
2023-06-18 23:59
The Sunday Workshop with Allison Joseph will take place on June 25, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

The workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person.

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshop

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

ABOUT THE POET

ALLISON JOSEPH lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press, 2021, winner of the Best Book of 2021 Award from Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference), Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books, 2022), Speak and Spell (Glass Lyre Press, 2022), and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award in Poetry. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. Her next book, Dwelling, will be published by Red Hen in 2025. Her chapbook Recover will be published in 2024 by Word Poetry. She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble.

Poetry at the Point: Richard Stimac, Andy Chen & Jill Firns
2023-05-23 19:30 | Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, MO, 63143, United States
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.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Richard Stimac has a full-length book of poetry Bricolage (Spartan Press), a forth-coming poetry chapbook Of Water and of Stone (Moonstone) and published over thirty poems in Burningword, Clackamas, december, The Examined Life Journal, Faultline, Havik (Third Place 2021 Poetry Contest), Michigan Quarterly Review, Mikrokosmos (Second Place 2022 Poetry Contest; A.E. Stallings, judge), New Plains Review, NOVUS, Penumbra, Salmon Creek Journal, Talon Review, and Wraparound South. He has also had an informal readings of plays by the St. Louis Writers’ Group and Gulf Coast: Playwright’s Circle, plays published in The AutoEthnographer, Fresh Words and Hive Avenue Literary Journal, and an essay in The Midwest Quarterly. A screenplay of his is in pre-production. He is a poetry reader for Ariel Publishing and Clepsydra.

Andy Chen was born and raised in New Jersey. He is a Kundiman graduate and holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, New England Review, december, The Offing, and Denver Quarterly, and his reviews appear in Hong Kong Review of Books, Hyphen, and Colorado Review. He teaches at John Burroughs School in St. Louis.

Jill Firns is a queer poet and aspiring novelist in St. Louis. As a youngster, she once had a re-imagination of “Roses are Red…” published in the St. Louis Post Dispatch and has been interested in writing ever since. She is a devoted attendee of Undercurrent, a weekly poetry workshop lead by internationally-recognized slam poet Desiree Dallagiacomo, and has had work published in Preposition: The Undercurrent Anthology. Through heavy imagery and storytelling masquerading as poetry, she explores relationships with the natural world, with others, and with the self.

2023 Hopkins Contest Award Ceremony
2023-05-22 18:00 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
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.

Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to celebrate the winners of the 2023 Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest for High School Students, selected by our 2023 contest judge Allison Joseph. Students from high schools across the St. Louis metro area will come together to share their work with the wider community. Light refreshments will be served.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending the awards ceremony in-person at High Low.

SPECIAL THANKS

The Hopkins Contest would not be possible without the efforts and support of volunteer contest coordinator and local poet Emily Koehn. Thank you!

2023 CONTEST WINNERS & HONORABLE MENTIONS

FIRST PLACEHira Ahmed, Parkway South High Schoolthe motherland –

SECOND PLACEShangri-La Hou, John Burroughs SchoolSecond Migration

THIRD PLACEOvya Diwakaran, Ladue Horton Watkins High SchoolIdentity Series Poems, I and II

HONORABLE MENTIONSZayna Fakhani, Parkway South High SchoolEmpire

Meg Handley, Nerinx Hall High SchoolQuilts

Shangri-La Hou, John Burroughs SchoolSandia

Bethany Lai, Clayton High SchoolXi Herculis

Mohini Mahajan, Clayton High SchoolA Floridian’s Pastoral: From Heat-Waves to Hieratic

Outside LitMag Issue 7 Release
2023-05-18 18:00 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
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.

Image credit: Lynden McAllister (Collegiate School of Medicine & Bioscience)

Made for and by Saint Louis Public School high school students, Outside Literary Magazine is thrilled to release Issue 7. This special event will celebrate the talented young artists who have worked hard to make this magazine possible. Students from across St. Louis 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 7 will be available for purchase at the event. Light refreshments will be served.

SPECIAL THANKS

Outside Literary Magazine would not be possible without the tireless efforts of the partnering schools and classroom teachers. Thank you!

Club Sponsors:Margaret SchuhAlex GraffTeacher:Kelly Terry (Art)

Club Sponsors:Chandra AlfordNicole HalamanTeacher:John Tevlin (Art)

Teachers:Colette Morton (ELA)Morgan Kemp (ELA)

PARTNERS

SPONSORS

Will Flores Fund

Major support for Outside Literary Magazine program expansion last year and this year is provided by the Mid-America Arts Alliance through the Interchange Artist Grant program. Read the press release >>

Poetry at the Point: Pamela Garvey, Brooking Gatewood, Karen Head
2023-04-25 19:30 | Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, MO, 63143, United States
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. Please note the livestream can only be viewed the night of the event.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Pamela Garvey is the author of the collection of poetry Seven Miles Deep (Five Oaks P, 2017). Her poetry, prose and book reviews have appeared in Esquire, Missouri Review, Margie, Spoon River Poetry Review, The North American Review and many other journals. Honors include being a semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/The Nation prize. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Things Impossible to Swallow (2River Press, 2013), and Fear (Finishing Line Press, 2008), a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Competition. Garvey is also a playwright. Her most recent production of the full length play, The Piddlings, was 2018. She is currently working on a book of lyric essays centered on raising a son with mental illness.

Brooking Gatewood has been writing in verse since she could hold a crayon, and has a history of scheming up interactive performance experiments that bring poetry off the page and back into the body, in community – from salons and walking tours and embodied language workshops to a Tedx Talk and mixed-media collaborations. Born/raised in STL, she’s absurdly happy to be back and re-rooting in riverside soil after many years in California, and is currently pursuing her MFA with Shane Seely at UMSL. She recently won the 2022 UMSL Graduate Prize in Poetry, the 2022 Deanne Wagner Poetry Contest, and is published in Bad Ken: A Journal of Place (forthcoming).

Karen Head is the author of Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology (a nonfiction book about issues in contemporary higher education), as well as five books of poetry: Lost on Purpose, Sassing, My Paris Year, Shadow Boxes and On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year. She also co-edited the poetry anthology Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Poetry, and has exhibited several acclaimed digital poetry projects, including her project “Monumental” (part of Antony Gormley’s One and Other Project) which was detailed in a TIME online mini-documentary. Her poetry appears in a number of national and international journals and anthologies. In 2010 she won the Oxford International Women’s Festival Poetry Prize. Head has held residencies at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts-France. She has also taught in study abroad programs in Barcelona, Spain and Oxford, England. She serves as Editor of the international poetry journal Atlanta Review, and as secretary for the Poetry Atlanta Board of Directors. On a more unusual note, she is the Poet Laureate of Waffle House—a title that reflects an outreach program to bring arts awareness to rural high schools in Georgia, which has been generously sponsored by the Waffle House Foundation. She is also the Poet Laureate of Fulton County, Georgia. She is a Professor at Missouri S&T.

Saturday Workshop Special Event: Shelley Wong & Ina Cariño
2023-04-15 10:00 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
These workshops will be held in-person at High Low.

In conjunction with our April Observable Readings, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome Kundiman poets Shelley Wong and Ina Cariño for a Sunday Workshop Special Event – on a Saturday!

These two-hour generative workshops will run concurrently, each led by one of the visiting poets.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low.

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Please note: these workshops are limited to 10 participants each. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Registration is due one week prior to workshop

These are generative workshops in which participants will draft their own poems

No poem submissions will be accepted for this special event

Poets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time

Those registering are expected to attend the workshop

To register, email*:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please indicate which workshop (Shelley Wong or Ina Cariño) you would like to attend. See workshop descriptions below.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 8, 2023

ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS

SHELLEY WONG Looking Again: Moving Through Images

We enter a poem and discover a speaker, curious to follow them along a journey. How can we use images in our writing to propel our poems in new directions? Together, we’ll read and draft poems looking for the essence of image-making and how they can spark a poem, building through repetition, place, and time.

INA CARIÑO History is a Haunting

In this workshop, participants will explore poems as memory-spaces. Poems are like memories: malleable, tinged with bias, and permeated with the ghosts of our own lived experience. Looking through an anti-imperialist lens, participants will delve into what it means for a personal history to be intertwined with macro-histories—the ghosts of which haunt us, and ask: If bastard histories crave undoing, how would (or could) they be different now?

ABOUT THE POETS

SHELLEY WONG is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize and longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award. She is a Kundiman and MacDowell fellow and lives in San Francisco.

INA CARIÑO is a 2022 Whiting Award winner with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, The Margins, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review Daily, Waxwing, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fellow and is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for FEAST, just released from Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2021, Ina was selected as one of four winners of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest.

Observable Readings: Shelley Wong & Ina Cariño
2023-04-14 19:00 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
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.

In conjunction with our April Sunday Workshop (on a Saturday!), Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome Kundiman poets Shelley Wong and Ina Cariño for Observable Readings.

Books available for purchase from Left Bank Books.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low.

ABOUT THE POETS

SHELLEY WONG is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize and longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award. She is a Kundiman and MacDowell fellow and lives in San Francisco.

INA CARIÑO is a 2022 Whiting Award winner with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, The Margins, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review Daily, Waxwing, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fellow and is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for FEAST, just released from Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2021, Ina was selected as one of four winners of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest.

The Observable Readings series is supported in part by:

Saturday Workshop: Registration Due
2023-04-08 23:59 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
In conjunction with our April Observable Readings, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome Kundiman poets Shelley Wong and Ina Cariño for a Sunday Workshop Special Event – on a Saturday!

These two-hour generative workshops will run concurrently, each led by one of the visiting poets. The workshops will take place on Saturday, April 15, 2023. Registrations for the workshops are due by 11:59 p.m.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low.

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Please note: these workshops are limited to 10 participants each. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Registration is due one week prior to workshop

These are generative workshops in which participants will draft their own poems

No poem submissions will be accepted for this special event

Poets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time

Those registering are expected to attend the workshop

To register, email*:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please indicate which workshop (Shelley Wong or Ina Cariño) you would like to attend. See workshop descriptions below.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS

SHELLEY WONG Looking Again: Moving Through Images

We enter a poem and discover a speaker, curious to follow them along a journey. How can we use images in our writing to propel our poems in new directions? Together, we’ll read and draft poems looking for the essence of image-making and how they can spark a poem, building through repetition, place, and time.

INA CARIÑO History is a Haunting

In this workshop, participants will explore poems as memory-spaces. Poems are like memories: malleable, tinged with bias, and permeated with the ghosts of our own lived experience. Looking through an anti-imperialist lens, participants will delve into what it means for a personal history to be intertwined with macro-histories—the ghosts of which haunt us, and ask: If bastard histories crave undoing, how would (or could) they be different now?

ABOUT THE POETS

SHELLEY WONG is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize and longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award. She is a Kundiman and MacDowell fellow and lives in San Francisco.

INA CARIÑO is a 2022 Whiting Award winner with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, The Margins, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review Daily, Waxwing, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fellow and is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for FEAST, just released from Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2021, Ina was selected as one of four winners of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest.

Poetry at the Point: Floyd Boykin, Jr., Robert Lowes & Paul Stroble
2023-03-28 19:30 | Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, MO, 63143, United States
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.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Floyd Boykin, Jr. is a father, award winning poet, author, musician, a recording artist and performer, producer, filmmaker, youth group organizer and Lupus Awareness Advocate. He is the founder of SpokenVizions Entertainment Group, L.L.C. and the producer of Project L.I.F.E. He is the author nine books (six poetry, three self-help). Floyd has opened for a variety of poets and other artists such as The Last Poets, Gill Scott-Heron, Dahveed Nelson, Malik Yusef, Goapele, Maya Azucena and Murphy Lee. He has released five studio albums including his most popular release EARTHOLOGY, which includes a collaboration with Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

Robert Lowes is a writer whose first poetry collection, An Honest Hunger (Resource Publications), was published in 2020. His poems have appeared in journals such as The New Republic, Southern Poetry Review, december, and Tampa Review. He recently has branched out into haiku while still writing poems in traditional European forms and free verse. A former president and board member of Saint Louis Poetry Center, he coordinated the organization’s high school poetry contest for nine years. When he’s not hunched over a notebook, he may be playing rhythm guitar at the School of Rock in Kirkwood. Samples of his poetry and journalism can be found at robertlowes.com.

Paul Stroble teaches at Webster University and Eden Theological Seminary. A native of Vandalia (Fayette County), Illinois, he has written several books, especially church curriculum. His website is paulstroble.com. His poetry books, published by Finishing Line Press, are Dreaming at the Electric Hobo (2015), Little River (2017), Small Corner of the Stars (2017), Backyard Darwin (2019), Walking Lorton Bluff (2020), Four Mile (2022), and Galápagos Joy (2023).

Christian Schlegel & Eileen G'Sell
2023-03-22 19:00 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
Reading from ryman (Schlegel) and Life After Rugby (G’Sell)

The reading will be held in-person at High Low.

Join Saint Louis Poetry Center for a reading and celebration of new poetry by two poets who write in dialogue with art, film, and the ekphrastic tradition. Copies of ryman and Life After Rugby will be available for purchase from Left Bank Books. Cash bar.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending this reading in-person at High Low. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Christian Schlegel is the author of the poetry collections RYMAN (Ricochet, 2022) and HONEST JAMES (The Song Cave, 2015). He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a doctorate in English from Harvard, teaches English and creative writing at Pierrepont School in Connecticut, and lives in New Haven.

Eileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Fence, The Baffler, Oversound, The Hopkins Review, Current Affairs, Hyperallergic, Reverse Shot, LARB, and other outlets. Her first full-length volume of poetry, Life After Rugby, was published in 2018 by Gold Wake Press, and in 2019 she was nominated for the national Rabkin Foundation award in arts journalism. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Sunday Workshop: Andrea Scarpino
2023-03-19 13:30 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
This workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. Learn more >>

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshop

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: March 12, 2023

ABOUT THE POET

ANDREA 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 works as Executive Director at the Noble Neighbor.

Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
2023-03-12 23:59
The Sunday Workshop with Andrea Scarpino will take place on March 19, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

The workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person.

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshop

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

ABOUT THE POET

ANDREA 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 works as Executive Director at the Noble Neighbor.

Poetry at the Point: Kenytha Harvery, Maggie Bell, & Samuel
2023-02-28 19:30 | Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, MO, 63143, United States
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.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Kenytha Harvey is an international speaker, consultant, author, artist, entrepreneur, and mentor who has spent the last twenty-one years inspiring men, women, and children to live their lives to the fullest. One that is full of love, kindness, compassion, and grace while pursuing the call on their lives with enthusiasm, passion, and persistence in spite of all the resistance, oppression, obstacles, and challenges that they may face in this life. She is an East Saint Louis native, a woman after God’s own heart, and a lover of His people. Being a part of families who are lifetime learners has influenced her life in a major way. Kenytha is currently pursuing her graduate degree from Washington University in Saint Louis, where she previously graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Psychological & Brain Sciences, Certificate in Forensic Psychology, and Creative Writing.

Maggie Bell is a writer and attorney who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. She has primarily practiced criminal law, including representing wrongfully convicted clients. In the midst of the pandemic, she discovered a refuge in poetry. Her poems were published in the Fall 2022 Issue of Nine Mile Books & Literary Magazine.

Nathan Sterling, the poet known as Samuel, is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a Master’s in Public Administration and Policy Analysis. He is a two-time published poet and the author of the works Archway and Two My Sisters. His writing can be found in the New York Writers Coalition Black Writers Journal as well as the Eastern Iowa Review. Nathan has a long history with writing but recently set his feet on the journey to smear the world with the color of his words. He is a passion filled writer, wringing words of their last drop of emotion. He creates poems that you can call home, providing somewhere you can fall apart or fall together whichever suits your soul. Join the journey.

Book Swap Happy Hour
2023-02-23 17:00 - 19:00 | Rockwell Beer Co, 1320 S Vandeventer Ave, Saint Louis, Missouri, 63110, United States
SLPC Member Appreciation Event

This event will be held in-person at Rockwell Beer Co, in their indoor Brewhouse.

Join us as we celebrate YOU – our outstanding members who have helped make Saint Louis Poetry Center what it is today. The work we do to support poets and champion the power of poetry isn’t possible without you. We’ve got some fun things planned for this Member Appreciation event. Please join us!

MEMBER APPRECIATION HAPPY HOUR

We are thanking Saint Louis Poetry Center members with special members-only happy hour. Come out to Rockwell Beer Co. in the Grove, mix and mingle with fellow members and poets, and enjoy great drinks and great conversation. This special evening features:

Complimentary open bar

Limited-edition SLPC tote bag for members

Attendance prizes

A book swap

BOOK SWAP

We’ve combined the best of two worlds – sharing favorite books, and happy hour! Participation in the book swap is completely optional. But if you are looking to lighten your bookshelves, discover a new poet, share a book recommendation, or just gab with other book lovers, this is your chance.

Give a book, get a book!

Bring 1 to 3 books to swap

Poetry and poetry-adjacent books preferred but not required

Upon arrival, leave a short note inside the books (SLPC will provide cards for this)

Pair up with fellow members and swap books

Any leftover books will be donated to SLPC’s library at High Low

You do not need to participate in the book swap to attend the event

MEMBERSHIP & REGISTRATION

The member appreciation happy hour is for all Saint Louis Poetry Center members. Event registration is encouraged but not required. Interested in joining? Time to renew? You can become a member or renew your membership anytime by visiting the membership page on our website.

Join or Renew Today!

To register for this event, or for questions about membership, email:membership@stlouispoetrycenter.org

Bring a friend!

Introduce your friends to the Saint Louis Poetry Center community. Have them sign up to become a member at the event and both of you will be entered into our happy hour raffle!

THE VENUE

Conveniently situated near the entrance to The Grove in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood, Rockwell Beer Co’s flagship location is hard to miss. Inside a facade built out of modified shipping containers you’ll find the heart of their operation: a 15-barrel industrial brewhouse and tasting room showcasing an ever-evolving lineup of Rockwell’s beers, a robust selection of seasonal cocktails and wines, and laid-back food from brassWELL by Niche.

Sunday Workshop: Niki Herd
2023-02-19 13:30 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
This workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. Learn more >>

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Please note: this workshop is limited to 12 poems/participants. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshop

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED: February 15, 2023

ABOUT THE POET

NIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collection The Language of Shedding Skin and co-editor with Meg Day of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master, considered one of 2019’s “hidden gems” by Ms. Magazine. Herd’s essay “George Floyd and the White Gaze” on the death of Floyd and the pandemic won the 2021 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction and was selected as Salon’s Best of 2020. A two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee, Herd’s poetry, essays, and criticism appear in or are forthcoming from New England Review, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Copper Nickel, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Obsidian, Tupelo Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, and Split This Rock Poem-of-the-Week, among other journals. Her poems have been anthologized in Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. In 2021, Herd was awarded the Raymond Plank Fellowship at Ucross. Her work has also been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Newberry Library, Cave Canem, as well as the DC Commission on the Arts. She has presented lectures and taught workshops at Carlow University, Community College of Baltimore County, Writers-in-the-Schools, and Rutgers University. An Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, Herd held a Presidential Fellowship at the University of Houston where she earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing. She currently lives in St. Louis where she is a Visiting Writer in Residence in Poetry at Washington University.

Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
2023-02-15 23:59
Deadline extended!

The Sunday Workshop with Niki Herd will take place on February 19, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

The workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person.

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Please note: this workshop is limited to 12 poems/participants. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

ABOUT THE POET

NIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collection The Language of Shedding Skin and co-editor with Meg Day of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master, considered one of 2019’s “hidden gems” by Ms. Magazine. Herd’s essay “George Floyd and the White Gaze” on the death of Floyd and the pandemic won the 2021 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction and was selected as Salon’s Best of 2020. A two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee, Herd’s poetry, essays, and criticism appear in or are forthcoming from New England Review, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Copper Nickel, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Obsidian, Tupelo Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, and Split This Rock Poem-of-the-Week, among other journals. Her poems have been anthologized in Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. In 2021, Herd was awarded the Raymond Plank Fellowship at Ucross. Her work has also been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Newberry Library, Cave Canem, as well as the DC Commission on the Arts. She has presented lectures and taught workshops at Carlow University, Community College of Baltimore County, Writers-in-the-Schools, and Rutgers University. An Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, Herd held a Presidential Fellowship at the University of Houston where she earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing. She currently lives in St. Louis.

Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
2023-02-12 23:59
The Sunday Workshop with Niki Herd will take place on February 19, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

The workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person.

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Please note: this workshop is limited to 12 poems/participants. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshop

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

ABOUT THE POET

NIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collection The Language of Shedding Skin and co-editor with Meg Day of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master, considered one of 2019’s “hidden gems” by Ms. Magazine. Herd’s essay “George Floyd and the White Gaze” on the death of Floyd and the pandemic won the 2021 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction and was selected as Salon’s Best of 2020. A two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee, Herd’s poetry, essays, and criticism appear in or are forthcoming from New England Review, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Copper Nickel, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Obsidian, Tupelo Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, and Split This Rock Poem-of-the-Week, among other journals. Her poems have been anthologized in Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. In 2021, Herd was awarded the Raymond Plank Fellowship at Ucross. Her work has also been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Newberry Library, Cave Canem, as well as the DC Commission on the Arts. She has presented lectures and taught workshops at Carlow University, Community College of Baltimore County, Writers-in-the-Schools, and Rutgers University. An Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, Herd held a Presidential Fellowship at the University of Houston where she earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing. She currently lives in St. Louis where she is a Visiting Writer in Residence in Poetry at Washington University.

Poetry at the Point: Marie Chewe-Elliott & Jet McDonald
2023-01-24 19:30 | Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, MO, 63143, United States
This is a rescheduled event from November 2022. The 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.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Marie Chewe-Elliott is a writer, speaker, and poet in north St. Louis County. She is the author of three books of poetry and a children’s book. Her poems have been published in The St. Louis Anthology, SO Magazine, UMSL’s Litmag, and among winning selections in the 2019 Arts Rolla Writing Competition and Arts in Transit’s 2019 Metro Lines Contest. In 2012, she co-founded North County Writing & Arts Network. Marie’s love of words guided her to a career of more than 30 years in various facets of communications, including newspaper reporter, nonprofit and government communications, and adjunct lecturer. She earned degrees from the University of Mississippi and Webster University.

Jet McDonald (they/them) received their Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where they also served as Poet Laureate. They now work as an organizational facilitator for the St. Louis Queer+ Support Helpline (SQSH – affectionately pronounced “squish”) and are pursuing a Master of Social Work degree at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. They hope to weave creativity and mental health services into one cohesive career. Jet’s work has appeared in Amygdala, Litmag, Eunoia Review, and Typehouse Literary Magazine, where their poem was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2017.

Sunday Workshop: Travis Mossotti
2023-01-15 13:30 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
This workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. Learn more >>

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshop

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: January 8, 2023

ABOUT THE POET

TRAVIS MOSSOTTI‘s previous collections are About the Dead, Field Study, and Narcissus Americana. His fourth collection, Racecar Jesus, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in 2023/24 with the Black Spring Press Group in the UK. Mossotti’s fifth collection, Apocryphal Genesis, won the Alma Book Award and is forthcoming with Saturnalia Books in 2024. He currently serves as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis.

Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
2023-01-08 23:59
The Sunday Workshop with Travis Mossotti will take place on January 15, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

The workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person.

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshop

Submit only one poem, one page in length

Provide name, mailing address, phone number and email address

Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop

You do not need to submit a poem to attend

If you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

ABOUT THE POET

TRAVIS MOSSOTTI‘s previous collections are About the Dead, Field Study, and Narcissus Americana. His fourth collection, Racecar Jesus, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in 2023/24 with the Black Spring Press Group in the UK. Mossotti’s fifth collection, Apocryphal Genesis, won the Alma Book Award and is forthcoming with Saturnalia Books in 2024. He currently serves as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis.

SLCL Authors @ the J Presents: Billy Collins
2022-12-08 19:00 | The J Staenberg Family Complex – Edison Gymnasium, 2 Millstone Campus Drive, Saint Louis, Missouri, 63146, United States
This is a ticketed event. The reading will be held in-person at The J Staenberg Family Complex – Edison Gymnasium.

The St. Louis County Library Foundation, HEC Media, the Favorite Author Series, The J – St. Louis, Saint Louis Poetry Center, and Novel Neighbor present former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, author of Musical Tables. In conversation with Aliki Barnstone – Poet Laureate of Missouri, 2016-2019

TICKET INFO

Tickets available for purchase at the event starting at 6:00 p.m.

INDIVIDUAL TICKET $32Admits ONE and includes one copy of “Musical Tables”

OR

PACKAGE TICKET $38Admits TWO and includes one copy of “Musical Tables”

EVENT INFO

Doors open at 6:00 p.m.A socially-distanced book signing line will follow the presentation.Books available from Novel Neighbor.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Two-time United States Poet Laureate is widely loved for his amiable voice, wit, and profound wisdom. Now “America’s favorite poet” has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love—all in a handful of lines. The poems of Musical Tables show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career.

ABOUT THE POET

BILLY COLLINS is the former Poet Laureate of the United States. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including the bestsellers Aimless Love, The Trouble with Poetry, and Sailing Alone Around the Room. He is also the editor of Poetry 180, 180 More, and Bright Wings. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife, Suzannah.

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

EVENT CANCELLED - Poetry at the Point: Marie Chewe-Elliott, Jet McDonald & Daniel Biegelson
2022-11-22 19:30 | Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, MO, 63143, United States
This reading has been CANCELLED due to illness. It will be rescheduled to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Marie Chewe-Elliott is a writer, speaker, and poet in north St. Louis County. She is the author of three books of poetry and a children’s book. Her poems have been published in The St. Louis Anthology, SO Magazine, UMSL’s Litmag, and among winning selections in the 2019 Arts Rolla Writing Competition and Arts in Transit’s 2019 Metro Lines Contest. In 2012, she co-founded North County Writing & Arts Network. Marie’s love of words guided her to a career of more than 30 years in various facets of communications, including newspaper reporter, nonprofit and government communications, and adjunct lecturer. She earned degrees from the University of Mississippi and Webster University.

Jet McDonald (they/them) received their Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where they also served as Poet Laureate. They now work as an organizational facilitator for the St. Louis Queer+ Support Helpline (SQSH – affectionately pronounced “squish”) and are pursuing a Master of Social Work degree at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. They hope to weave creativity and mental health services into one cohesive career. Jet’s work has appeared in Amygdala, Litmag, Eunoia Review, and Typehouse Literary Magazine, where their poem was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2017.

Daniel Biegelson is the author of the book of being neighbors (Ricochet Editions) and the chapbook Only the Borrowed Light (VERSE). He serves as the Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Northwest Missouri State University, where he also works as an editor for The Laurel Review. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana and an MA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He hails from New Jersey and lives near Kansas City with his wife and two kids. Find him at danielbiegelson.com.

Sunday Workshop: Jason Vasser-Elong
2022-11-20 13:30 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
This workshop will be held in-person at High Low, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. Learn more >>

GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION

Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.

Submissions due one week prior to workshopSubmit only one poem, one page in lengthProvide name, mailing address, phone number and email addressThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshopYou do not need to submit a poem to attendIf you need to attend virtually, please indicate this is your registration email

To register, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

EXTENDED SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: November 15, 2022

ABOUT THE POET

JASON VASSER-ELONG [Vassir–Eh-long] is assistant teaching professor in the Pierre Laclede Honors College and a doctoral student in the College of Education at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing and studied cultural anthropology and African Diaspora studies. He is the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press, 2018), a collection of poetry that analyzes identity in a post-colonial context. Jason has two peer reviewed articles: Perfect Water which appears in the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies in the “Proceedings” issue (2021) and Treading the Atlantic which appears in the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies – special issue on “Netherlandic Migrations: Narratives from North America” (2016). He was a General Anthropology Division travel award recipient for the 2021 American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in Baltimore, MD, where he presented Treading the Atlantic. Jason has poetry in numerous anthologies and currently serves as poet-in-residence for Sapiens Magazine 2022.

SLCL Presents: Ross Gay
2022-11-07 19:00 | Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd, St Louis, Missouri, 63117, United States
Reading from Inciting Joy: Essays

This reading will be held in-person at Ethical Society of St. Louis.

The St. Louis County Library Foundation, HEC Media, the Favorite Author Series, St. Louis Poetry Center, and Left Bank Books present Award-Winning Poet and Essayist, Ross Gay, author of Inciting Joy: Essays.

EVENT INFO

Doors open at 6:00pm.Seating is limited; early arrival is recommended.Books available from Left Bank Books. Curbside pick-up, in-store pick-up, and shipping available.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet and bestselling author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection and expand it. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love? Full of energy, curiosity, and compassion, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers.

ABOUT THE POET

ROSS GAY is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new collection of essays, Inciting Joy, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022.

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Poetry at the Point: Katerina Canyon, Jennifer Goldring & Katherine Mitchell
2022-10-25 19:30 | Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, MO, 63143, United States
The 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.

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Katerina Canyon is a 2020 and 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominee. Her stories have been published in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Folks. Her poetry has been published in CatheXis Northwest, The Esthetic Apostle, Into the Void, Black Napkin, and Waxing & Waning. Her first book of poetry, Changing the Lines, was released in 2017. From 2000 to 2003, she served as the Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga. She has a B.A. in English, International Studies and Creative Writing from Saint Louis University and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her latest book, Surviving Home, was released in 2021. Katerina Canyon currently lives in Seattle, WA. Readers can connect with her on Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads, and Facebook.

Jennifer Goldring is a poet based in St. Louis, Missouri. On her days off, she’s likely playing with clay, taking photos, hanging with her teenagers, or writing poems. She’s Managing Editor for december magazine. Her award-winning poetry has appeared in various publications, and her photography and other work can be found at jennifergoldring.com.

Katherine Mitchell’s poems and essays appear in 2River View, The Southern Review and The Louisville Review. The Southern Review nominated her poetry for Best New Poets. Katherine holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri—St. Louis. She’s an Alexander Technique teacher and teaches movement for writers workshops across the country.

Observable Readings: Carl Phillips & David Baker
2022-10-24 19:30 | High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63103
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.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low.

ABOUT THE POETS

CARL PHILLIPS is the author of 16 books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022). His honors include the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022); and he has translated the Philoctetes of Sophocles (Oxford University Press, 2004). He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

DAVID BAKER is author of thirteen books of poetry, recently Whale Fall, published in July by W. W.Norton, and Swift: New and Selected Poems, as well as six books of prose about poetry. Among hisawards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, Mellon Foundation, andPoetry Society of America. Baker’s poetry and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, TheAtlantic, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Yale Review, and others. Heserved for many years as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review, where he continues to curate the annualeco-poetry issue, “Nature’s Nature.” Baker lives in Granville, Ohio.

Poetry at the Point: Jane Ellen Ibur, María T. Balogh & Alex Balogh
2022-09-27 19:30 | Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, MO, 63143, United States
The 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.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >>

ABOUT THE POETS

Jane Ellen Ibur, Poet Laureate of St Louis, Missouri, an established arts educator, received a Visionary Award for Outstanding Arts Educator; recognized as a Warrior Poet from Word in Motion; two awards from the Missouri Scholar’s Academy, A World of Difference Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Honored with an Author Recognition Award by the Missouri Center for the Book, she is published in literary journals and anthologies garnering additional awards. She is the author of Both Wings Flappin’, Still Not Flyin’ and The Little Mrs./Misses both published by PenUltimate Press. For further details, visit Ibur’s Wikipedia page.

María T. Balogh is a multilingual, bicultural poet, fiction writer, performing Caribbean folkloric dancer, and educator. She has a book of poetry in Spanish by Ediciones Torremozas, a Spanish publisher, and a collection of poetry and fiction in English by Cool Way Press. Her fiction and poetry have been published in several different journals from the USA and South America. She has been all over and done just about everything, including building rural aqueducts while in the Peace Corps. She now teaches Spanish, specializing in Latin American literature and culture, and creative writing at the University of Missouri St Louis.

Alex Balogh is author of the novel Accidental Destination and the poetry collection And Yet.
