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SUMMARY:Poetry in the Woods: Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Ethical Society of St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with Poetry in the Woods\, acclaimed poets and St. Louis natives Naomi Shihab Nye and James Crews present a poetry reading and conversation on nature\, wildness\, and mindfulness through the lens of poetry—award-winning local poet Travis Mossotti will moderate the event. Presented in partnership with the Poetry in the Woods Workshop\, Saint Louis Poetry Center\, St. Louis County Library\, the Wildlife Rescue Center\, The Novel Neighbor and the Saint Louis Zoo. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00pm.Seating will be offered on a first come\, first served basis.Books available for purchase from The Novel Neighbor. \n\n\n\nRegistration through Poetry in the Woods events page is strongly encouraged: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVERYTHING COMES NEXTNaomi Shihab Nye \n\n\n\nEverything Comes Next is a treasure chest of Naomi Shihab Nye’s most beloved poems\, and features favorites such as “Famous” and “A Valentine for Ernest Mann\,” as well as widely shared pieces such as “Kindness” and “Gate A-4.” Featuring new\, never-before-published poems; an introduction by bestselling poet and author Edward Hirsch\, as well as a foreword and writing tips by the poet; and stunning artwork by bestselling artist Rafael López\, Everything Comes Next is essential for poetry readers\, classroom teachers\, and library collections. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE WONDER OF SMALL THINGSJames Crews \n\n\n\nJames Crews\, editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness\, presents a collection of highly accessible\, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life. The Wonder of Small Things features a foreword by Nikita Gill and a carefully curated selection of poems from a diverse range of authors\, including Native American poets Joy Harjo\, Linda Hogan\, Kimberly Blaeser\, and Joseph Bruchac\, and BIPOC writers Ross Gay\, Julia Alvarez\, and Toi Derricotte. Readers are guided in exploring the meaning and essence of the poems through a series of reflective pauses scattered through the pages and reading group questions in the back. This anthology offers the perfect intersection for the growing number of readers interested in mindful living and bringing poetry into their everyday lives.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNAOMI SHIHAB NYE is Chancellor Emeritus for the Academy of American Poets. She is the 2019 Lon Tinkle Lifetime Achievement Award Winner from the Texas Institute of Letters\, and she has received a Lannan Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, and four Pushcart Prizes.  She is the 2019 – 2021 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Her collection 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her collection Honeybee was awarded the Arab-American Book Award.  Naomi Shihab Nye has edited eight honored and popular poetry anthologies\, including Time You Let Me In\, What Have You Lost?\, Salting the Ocean\, and This Same Sky\, and she is the author of the novels Habibi and Going\, Going\, and The Turtle of Oman.  She lives with her family in San Antonio\, Texas and is on faculty at Texas State University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJAMES CREWS is the author of the essay collection\, Kindness Will Save the World\, and editor of several bestselling poetry anthologies: Healing the Divide\, The Path to Kindness\, and How to Love the World. He has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition\, and in People Magazine\, The Boston Globe\, and The Washington Post. He is also the author of four prize-winning books of poetry\, and his poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The New Republic\, and other journals. James lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-in-the-woods-nye-crews/
LOCATION:Ethical Society of St. Louis\, 9001 Clayton Rd\, St Louis\, Missouri\, 63117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Tommy Archuleta will take place on October 22\, 2023.  Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 10 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due one week prior to workshop\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTOMMY ARCHULETA is a native northern New Mexican. He works as a mental health therapist for the New Mexico Corrections Department. Most recently his work has appeared in the New England Review\, Laurel Review\, Lily Poetry Review\, The Cortland Review\, Guesthouse\, and the Poem-a-Day series sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. Susto\, his full-length debut collection of poems\, published by the Center for Literary Publishing\, is a 2023 Mountain/West Poetry Series title. He is also the author of the chapbook\, Fieldnotes (Lily Poetry Review & Books\, 2023). He lives and writes on the Cochiti Reservation.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-october-2023/
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Tommy Archuleta
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 10 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due one week prior to workshop\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: October 15\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTOMMY ARCHULETA is a native northern New Mexican. He works as a mental health therapist for the New Mexico Corrections Department. Most recently his work has appeared in the New England Review\, Laurel Review\, Lily Poetry Review\, The Cortland Review\, Guesthouse\, and the Poem-a-Day series sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. Susto\, his full-length debut collection of poems\, published by the Center for Literary Publishing\, is a 2023 Mountain/West Poetry Series title. He is also the author of the chapbook\, Fieldnotes (Lily Poetry Review & Books\, 2023). He lives and writes on the Cochiti Reservation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-october-2023/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Tommy Archuleta & Ariana Benson
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 Tommy Archuleta and Ariana Benson 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\nTOMMY ARCHULETA is a native northern New Mexican. He works as a mental health therapist for the New Mexico Corrections Department. Most recently his work has appeared in the New England Review\, Laurel Review\, Lily Poetry Review\, The Cortland Review\, Guesthouse\, and the Poem-a-Day series sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. Susto\, his full-length debut collection of poems\, published by the Center for Literary Publishing\, is a 2023 Mountain/West Poetry Series title. He is also the author of the chapbook\, Fieldnotes (Lily Poetry Review & Books\, 2023). He lives and writes on the Cochiti Reservation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nARIANA BENSON was born in Norfolk\, Virginia. Her debut collection\, Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press) won the 2022 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Benson has also received the Furious Flower Poetry Prize and the Porter House Review Poetry Prize\, and the 2021 Graybeal Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in POETRY Magazine\, Ploughshares\, Poem-a-Day\, Copper Nickel\, the Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere. Through her writing\, she strives to fashion vignettes of Blackness that speak to its infinite depth and richness. \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-october-2023/
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: Emerson Gray & Nita Penfold
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\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\nEmerson Gray is a disabled genderqueer poet based in southern Illinois. He has been previously published in RFD Magazine as well as the Augment Review\, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his work on Crab Fat Magazine. He also served as a poetry editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine and Arrow Rock Journal. Emerson is currently an MFA Creative Writing candidate at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. You can find him on Twitter @Emerson_Gray_ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNita Penfold‘s poetry has been called luminous and soul-stirring and has been widely published in anthologies\, including recently in the Charters & Charters text book\, Literature & Its Writers (5th edition)\, the 2021 Women Artist’s Datebook from Syracuse Cultural Workers\, and Northeastern University’s journal\, Pensive. Her first book\, They Stand Up in Broken Shells\, won the 2006 Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Poetry Book Award. Her other books are Landing in Oz (2012)\, The Woman with the Wild-Grown Hair: Complete Poems (2017) and Loreen Says (2022) all available on Amazon. An editor emeritus for Earth’s Daughters magazine\, the oldest extant feminist magazine in the US\, over 600 of her poems and several short stories have been published in the past 40 years. Nita received her BA in Communication and the Arts from Empire State College and her Master of Arts in Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-october-2023/
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:Sally Van Doren: A Reading & Conversation
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\ndecember magazine\, University of Missouri–St. Louis MFA program\, LSU Press\, and Saint Louis Poetry Center present acclaimed poet Sally Van Doren\, author of Sibilance: Poems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm.Program begins at 7:00pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe word “sibilance” refers to pronunciations of the letter “s\,” including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren’s fourth collection of poetry\, the word alerts readers to the sounds of language in the poems that follow in abecedarian order. Filled with wordplay\, Van Doren’s poems vacillate between the extremes of joy and despair\, by turns witty and chagrined\, punning and reflective. The poems gathered in Sibilance aim to clarify their author’s ambivalence concerning living life and writing about it. Her unique investigations teem with distilled images encased in the language of irreverence and awe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA St. Louis native\, SALLY VAN DOREN is a prize-winning poet and artist who has taught at the 92nd Street Y and other public and private institutions. She is the author of four collections of poetry\, including Sex at Noon Taxes\, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/december-presents-sally-van-doren/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Poemtober: Halloween Poetry Party
DESCRIPTION:This 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 poetry party! \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 poetry party\, and bring your friends!  Featuring: \n\n\n\n\nPoemtober Open Mic\n\n\n\nMusic and Costumes\n\n\n\nRaffle Basket\n\n\n\nSnacks & Cash Bar\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is strongly encouraged.  You do not need to participate in the open mic to attend the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration & Open Mic Sign-Up Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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 to practice their craft. We hope this project helps us all shift from that lovely 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/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Mississippi Mud Daubers Haiku Group
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\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 MISSISSIPPI MUD DAUBERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Mississippi Mud Daubers haiku group was founded in 2006 by John Dunphy and named by the late Gretchen Batz. The group of 6-10 members meets once a quarter at 222 Artisan Bakery in Edwardsville\, Illinois. Meetings consist of critique of each others work\, a celebration of each of others successes\, and general fellowship among like minded poets.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBen Gaa is your Friendly Neighborhood Haiku Poet and host of Haiku Talk on YouTube. He’s the author of two full length collections of haiku and senryu\, One Breath (Spartan Press 2020)\, and the Touchstone Award winning Wishbones (Folded Word 2018)\, as well as four chapbooks\, the High/Coo award winner One Note Moon (Brooks Books 2023)\, Fiddle in the Floorboards (Yavanika Press 2018)\, Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (Poor Metaphor Design 2014) and the Pushcart nominated Wasp Shadows (Folded Word 2014). With over 1000 haiku and senryu published in journals and anthologies around the globe\, he enjoys both giving and attending poetry readings and workshops and being part of the literary conversation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllyson Whipple is the creator of the Culinary Saijiki blog and podcast and Haiku Girl Summer. She also serves as the newsletter editor and Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America. Before moving to St. Louis\, Allyson was active in the Texas poetry community\, serving as board president of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, as well as co-editor for four editions of the Texas Poetry Calendar. She is now a proud resident of the Soulard neighborhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Rickert is the current president of the Haiku Society of America and has been published in many fine journals. He is the co-editor of Failed Haiku Journal of Senryu and edits The Living Senryu Anthology. Bryan has two books: Fish Kite (Cyberwit Publishing) and Dust and Stone\, co-written with Peter Jastermsky (Velvet Dusk Publishing). His work was also selected for inclusion in A New Resonance\, Volume 12. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn J. Han is Professor of English & Creative Writing and Associate Dean of Humanities & Theology at Missouri Baptist University in Creve Coeur. He is the author\, translator\, editor\, or co-editor of 33 books\, including 11 poetry collections. He also has published more than 2\,300 poems in Modern Haiku\, Frogpond\, Wales Haiku Journal\, and other journals and anthologies. Han served as editor of Dawn Returns: The Haiku Society of America Member’s Anthology 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-november-2023/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Kirby Ewald & Kristin Emanuel
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\nOften\, the most engaging art seems to capture some universal essence by being incredibly specific. It gets at the gigantic by getting tiny. The poetry of Kirby Ewald and Kristin Emanuel live in this world of detail because it is the world we live in\, too. This month’s reading will reckon with the heartbreak of climate angst by doing our house chores anyway\, will take the tiniest detail and turn it over every which way in the light\, will lean into dissonance as a way of generating a more honest poetics. \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\nKirby Ewald works in St. Louis as a communications specialist for museums and cultural institutions. She enjoys writing in a variety of forms (poems\, essays\, short stories\, and novels) and is drawn to messages that wrestle with nature\, culture\, and observation. Her work touches upon her experiences as a museum and zoo professional\, a wife and mother\, and someone passionate about moving to new places without vetting them first. She is an emerging writer and holds a BA in international relations with minors in creative writing and political science from George Washington University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKristin Emanuel holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Kansas where she studied ecofabulism and the comics poetry movement. She is now a PhD student researching Poetry & Poetics at Washington University. In 2022\, Donika Kelly selected her as a finalist in Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest. Her latest poems\, comics\, and reviews have appeared in journals such as Shenandoah\, The Indianapolis Review\, and Colorado Review\, with new poetry forthcoming in I-70 Review and RHINO 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-january-2024/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240220T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jason Vasser-Elong & Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin
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\nPart of the intention of what became Black History Month was\, and still is\, to celebrate the achievements of Black Americans since Emancipation. Equally necessary\, however\, is an acknowledgement of the path left to walk\, especially in St. Louis\, a town known globally for both racism and resistance. Jason Vasser-Elong and Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin will read from their poetry and\, in conversation afterwards\, explore themes of being an American abroad\, of stories buried and unearthed\, and of Black futures that deserve the excitement of our imaginations. \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\nJason Vasser-Elong is assistant teaching professor in the Pierre Laclede Honors College and a doctoral candidate in the College of Education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis\, where he earned an MFA 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. His current research is centered on peacemaking\, with an additional focus on student learning environments. Recently\, Jason received the University of Missouri South African Education Program Fellowship and will continue his research\, as Dr. Elong\, this summer at the University of the Western Cape\, Cape Town\, South Africa. An avid reader and writer\, Jason has poetry and prose forthcoming in River Styx\, Uno\, and Callaloo. In 2022\, he served as poet-in-residence for Sapiens\, and will travel to Toronto for the American Anthropological Association annual meeting this year to read poetry as part of the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) Transforming Anthropology reception. A proud member of the ABA and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity\, Inc.\, Jason is currently curating an anthology of poetry with the Lights of Alpha mentoring program with his local chapter. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAsha Marie Larson-Baldwin (she/her) is a South Carolinian living in St. Louis while she works towards her PhD in Sociology. She writes at the intersections of poetry and prose\, experimenting with brevity and intimacy while exploring the contours and interiorities of her own fleeting girlhood. When she’s not at school or staring at a screen\, you can find her running around Forest Park or reading cheesy pop-lit on Art Hill. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-february-2024/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240225T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T013819
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Teresa Dzieglewicz - CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:This workshop has been cancelled & will be rescheduled for fall 2024. \n\n\n\nWe apologize for any inconvenience!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Teresa Dzieglewicz to lead the February Sunday Workshop! \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 Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due February 21\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: February 21\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\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). Her first book of poetry Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2023. Her first children’s book\, co-written with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books in 2025. 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. Her poems appear in the Pushcart Prize XLII\, Best New Poets\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Prairie Schooner\, Ninth Letter\, Sixth Finch\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-february-2024/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240226T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T013819
CREATED:20240214T165800Z
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: erica lewis & Teresa Dzieglewicz - CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:This reading has been cancelled & will be rescheduled for fall 2024. \n\n\n\nWe apologize for any inconvenience!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets erica lewis and Teresa Dzieglewicz 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\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). Her first book of poetry Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2023. Her first children’s book\, co-written with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books in 2025. 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. Her poems appear in the Pushcart Prize XLII\, Best New Poets\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Prairie Schooner\, Ninth Letter\, Sixth Finch\, and elsewhere. \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-2024/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240310T235900
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240310T235900
DTSTAMP:20260416T013819
CREATED:20240214T171744Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Eamonn Wall will take place on March 10\, 2024.  Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants.  Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due March 10\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEAMONN WALL is a native of Enniscorthy\, Co. Wexford\, Ireland. He has lived in St. Louis\, Missouri\, since 2000. Eamonn Wall is the author of eight collections of poetry as well as three books of cultural and literary criticism. His essays\, articles\, and reviews have been published in journals and newspapers in the USA\, Ireland\, and elsewhere. Eamonn Wall works at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he teaches courses in Irish\, Irish-American\, and British Literature\, directs UMSL’s Irish Summer School in Galway\, and serves as the director of the Irish Studies Program.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-march-2024/
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240315T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240315T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T013819
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SUMMARY:Almost Spring Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:SLPC Member Appreciation Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held in-person at Rockwell Beer Co\, in their indoor Brewhouse. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin 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! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMEMBER APPRECIATION HAPPY HOUR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe 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\, meet our new board members and curators\, and enjoy great drinks and great conversation.  This special evening features: \n\n\n\n\nComplimentary open bar\n\n\n\nSLPC t-shirt for members\n\n\n\nAttendance prizes\n\n\n\nA book swap\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOOK SWAP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGive a book\, get a book! \n\n\n\n\nBring 1 to 3 books to swap\n\n\n\nPoetry and poetry-adjacent books preferred but not required\n\n\n\nUpon arrival\, leave a short note inside the books (SLPC will provide cards for this)\n\n\n\nPair up with fellow members and swap books\n\n\n\nAny leftover books will be donated to SLPC’s library at High Low\n\n\n\nYou do not need to participate in the book swap to attend the event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMEMBERSHIP & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin or Renew Today!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register for this event\, or for questions about membership\, email:membership@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBring a friend! \n\n\n\nIntroduce 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! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE VENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConveniently 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.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/member-happy-hour-march-2024/
LOCATION:Rockwell Beer Co\, 1320 S Vandeventer Ave\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63110\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240317T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240317T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T013819
CREATED:20240228T015457Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Eamonn Wall
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \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 Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due March 10\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: March 10\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEAMONN WALL is a native of Enniscorthy\, Co. Wexford\, Ireland. He has lived in St. Louis\, Missouri\, since 2000. Eamonn Wall is the author of eight collections of poetry as well as three books of cultural and literary criticism. His essays\, articles\, and reviews have been published in journals and newspapers in the USA\, Ireland\, and elsewhere. Eamonn Wall works at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he teaches courses in Irish\, Irish-American\, and British Literature\, directs UMSL’s Irish Summer School in Galway\, and serves as the director of the Irish Studies Program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-march-2024/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240326T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240326T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T013819
CREATED:20240119T003629Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Bailey Schaumburg & Macallan Lay
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\nLike any venue for processing the human experience\, what is absent from a poem can hold as much meaning as what is included. It is this process of withholding that distinguishes art from reportage. Bailey Schaumburg and Macallan Lay will read from their work\, and in conversation afterwards\, reckon with the poem as a site for facing one’s self in preparation for facing the other. \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\nBailey Schaumburg is a poet and writer who lives in Saint Louis\, Missouri with their cat\, Calypso\, and their dog\, Stanley. They care *almost* as much about finding and engaging in poetry community as they do about poetry itself – they currently serve as a co-curator for the Observable Readings series through the Saint Louis Poetry Center. Poetry is their first love\, and will undoubtedly be their last. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMacallan Lay is a poet and project manager living in St. Louis\, MO. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Her work has been featured in Vagabond City\, Flat Ink\, Litmag\, and Bad Jacket. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-march-2024/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240406T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T013819
CREATED:20240319T154747Z
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Edgar Kunz & Reyes Ramirez
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 Edgar Kunz and Reyes Ramirez 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\nEDGAR KUNZ is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer\, published by Ecco in 2023 and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book\, and Tap Out\, published by Ecco in 2019. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, a MacDowell Fellow\, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREYES RAMIREZ (he/him) is a Houstonian\, writer\, educator\, curator\, and organizer of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He authored the short story collection The Book of Wanderers (2022)\, a 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist\, from University of Arizona Press’ Camino del Sol series and the poetry collection El Rey of Gold Teeth (2023) from Hub City Press. His latest curatorial project\, The Houston Artist Speaks Through Grids\, explores the use of grids in contemporary Houston art\, literature\, history\, and politics. Reyes has been honored as a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow\, 2021 Interchange Artist Grant Fellow\, 2022 Crosstown Arts Writer in Residence\, 2023 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow\, 2023 Dobie Paisano Fellow\, 2024 Speculative Play and Just Futurities Fellow and awarded grants from the Houston Arts Alliance\, Poets & Writers\, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund. \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-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240407T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240407T110000
DTSTAMP:20260416T013819
CREATED:20240319T164207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T132755Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Edgar Kunz & Reyes Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our April Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Edgar Kunz and Reyes Ramirez for the April Sunday Workshop! \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 Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants.  Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by April 2\, 2024\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this event\n\n\n\nPoets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time\n\n\n\nThose registering are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 2\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEDGAR KUNZ is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer\, published by Ecco in 2023 and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book\, and Tap Out\, published by Ecco in 2019. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, a MacDowell Fellow\, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREYES RAMIREZ (he/him) is a Houstonian\, writer\, educator\, curator\, and organizer of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He authored the short story collection The Book of Wanderers (2022)\, a 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist\, from University of Arizona Press’ Camino del Sol series and the poetry collection El Rey of Gold Teeth (2023) from Hub City Press. His latest curatorial project\, The Houston Artist Speaks Through Grids\, explores the use of grids in contemporary Houston art\, literature\, history\, and politics. Reyes has been honored as a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow\, 2021 Interchange Artist Grant Fellow\, 2022 Crosstown Arts Writer in Residence\, 2023 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow\, 2023 Dobie Paisano Fellow\, 2024 Speculative Play and Just Futurities Fellow and awarded grants from the Houston Arts Alliance\, Poets & Writers\, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-april-2024/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Spring Forward Series: Amie Whittemore & Travis Mossotti
DESCRIPTION:A Poetry in the Woods Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of springing forward with a literary walk through Old Orchard in Webster Groves! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with Poetry in the Woods\, acclaimed poets Amie Whittemore & Travis Mossotti present a craft talk\, literary meet-and-greet\, and poetry reading and conversation. Presented in partnership with the Poetry in the Woods and The Novel Neighbor. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCraft Talk: Poetry & Renewalat Webster University Pearson House 4:00pm – 5:00pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiterary Meet & Greetat Frisco Barroom5:00pm – 6:30pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry Reading: Amie Whittemore & Travis Mossottiat Novel Neighbor Bookstore7:00pm – 8:00pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm for the poetry readingSeating will be offered on a first come\, first served basis.Books available for purchase from The Novel Neighbor. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeating is limited\, and registration through Poetry in the Woods events page is strongly encouraged: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEST OF MATCHESAmie Whittemore \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\nAPOCRYPHAL GENESISTravis Mossotti \n\n\n\nApocryphal Genesis comes as a reminder of how deeply personal an impersonal world can often feel. The failed promises of the previous centuries are mere preamble to the predicaments of the current one. Humanity’ s contentment to entertain the illusion of control over the world around us is also the source of our collective discontent. In Mossotti’s poems\, dark humor underpins every turn. His wit cuts through the bang and blab of what passes for polite discourse\, and his visions are jarring and delightful in equal measure. His poems cinematically zoom from the exceedingly distant vantages of “ telescopes scraping deeper into the womb / of the universe” to the microscopic “ space between the whirl of electrons.” While the ghost of Apollinaire guides the reader through these haunting poems\, it’ s the poet himself who’ s on display more often than not (like a moth pinned inside a glass case)\, naked and unadorned. Apocryphal Genesis is a book that’ s mature enough to be unimpressed with the trappings of maturity. It’ s the first glance the poet’ s after\, subtle movement of stirrings under the leaf litter\, and page after page\, Mossotti transforms the cosmically divine into something indelible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAMIE WHITTEMORE (she/her) is the author of Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press)\, Star-Tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books)\, and Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press\, 2024). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro\, Tennessee\, and was named a 2020 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. Through her laureateship she partnered with Southern Word to offer Write with Pride\, a series of poetry workshops and open mics for LGBT+ teens in Rutherford and Davidson counties. She is Director of MTSU Write\, a from-home\, one-on-one creative writing certificate program and teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University. She holds degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.A.)\, Lewis & Clark College (M.A.T.)\, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale (M.F.A.). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review\, Blackbird\, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week\, Cold Mountain Review\, Pleiades\, The Account\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRAVIS MOSSOTTI‘s previous collections are About the Dead\, Field Study\, Narcissus Americana\, and Racecar Jesus. He’ s been the recipient of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize\, the May Swenson Book Award\, the Christopher Smart – Joan Alice Poetry Prize\, the Alma Book Award\, and others. Mossotti’s fifth collection\, Apocryphal Genesis\, was just released with Saturnalia Books. 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\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
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/spring-forward-series-april-2024/
LOCATION:Novel Neighbor\, 7905 Big Bend Blvd\, St Louis\, MO\, 63119\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Melody S. Gee\, Carolina Hotchandani & Catherine Anderson
DESCRIPTION:A Perugia Press Showcase\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\nPerugia Press and Saint Louis Poetry Center present acclaimed poets Melody S. Gee\, Carolina Hotchandani and Catherine Anderson for a Perugia Press Showcase reading. \n\n\n\nDespite massive changes in the publishing industry over the last couple of decades\, the small press has remained critical as a home for poetry. This month’s reading will feature three established poets who’ve all shared a common home\, Perugia Press. After the poets read their work\, they will join in conversation about not only artistic craft but the process of taking a poem\, joining it with other poems\, and seeing it all the way through to becoming a book. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nView the event flyer >>\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\nMelody S. Gee‘s first book of poetry\, Each Crumbling House\, was published by Perugia Press in 2010. Her other books are The Dead in Daylight (Cooper Dillon Books\, 2016) and The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat (Driftwood Press\, 2022). Melody’s work has received support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation\, the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis\, and Kundiman. A former English professor\, Melody now works in communications and marketing\, and lives with her family in St. Louis\, Missouri. Her first collection of memoir essays is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarolina Hotchandani is a Latinx/South Asian poet born in Brazil and raised in various parts of the United States. Her debut poetry collection The Book Eaters won the 2023 Perugia Press Prize and was released in September 2023. Hotchandani holds degrees from Brown\, Texas State\, and Northwestern universities. Her honors include scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Rona Jaffe Foundation\, Community of Writers\, Tin House Writers’ Workshop\, and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Her poetry has appeared in AGNI\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Blackbird\, Cincinnati Review\, Missouri Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and other journals. She is a Goodrich Assistant Professor of English in Omaha\, Nebraska\, where she lives with her husband and daughter. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Anderson‘s most recent book is a memoir\, My Brother Speaks in Dreams: Of Family\, Beauty & Belonging (Wising Up Press). She has published four collections of poetry\, including Everyone I Love Immortal (Woodley Press)\, Woman with a Gambling Mania (Mayapple Press)\, The Work of Hands (Perugia Press) and In the Mother Tongue (Alice James Books). She has received awards in poetry from the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation (many years ago)\, and more recently\, I-70 Review and Crab Orchard Review. She lives in Kansas City where she works with new immigrants and refugees. \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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-april-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:Hadara Bar-Nadav & Asha Futterman
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Saint Louis Poetry Center and Left Bank Books for a reading and celebration of poetry by Hadara Bar-Nadav & Asha Futterman. Copies of The Animal is Chemical will be available for purchase from Left Bank Books. Cash bar. \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 this reading in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry\, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and other honors. Her books include The Animal Is Chemical (Four Way Books\, 2023)\, awarded the Levis Prize in Poetry; The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books\, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books\, 2013)\, awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues\, 2012)\, Editor’s Selection/Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House\, 2007)\, awarded the Margie Book Prize. In addition\, she is co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems\, 8th ed. (Pearson\, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The Believer\, The Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAsha Futterman is a poet and an actor from Chicago. She has an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis\, and is now a teaching fellow at WashU. Her chapbook\, song of gray\, is forthcoming from The Song Cave. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Conduit Magazine\, Bennington Review\, The Journal\, and Interim Poetics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/hadara-bar-nadav-asha-futterman/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:2024 SLPC Contests Award Ceremony
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\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to celebrate the winners of the 2024 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\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending the awards ceremony in-person at High Low. \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 2024 SLU Intern Aileen O’Connor for supporting both contests! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024 HOPKINS CONTEST WINNERS & HONORABLE MENTIONS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected by 2024 contest judge Elijah Burrell \n\n\n\n\n\nFIRST PLACEPaul Thibodeau\, Saint Louis University High SchoolEtymology \n\n\n\nSECOND PLACEBrie Shelley-Piccinini\, Ladue Horton Watkins High SchoolTaper Off \n\n\n\nTHIRD PLACEAddison Farthing\, Gateway Science AcademySidewalk Poetry \n\n\n\n\n\nHONORABLE MENTIONSSimon Edgell\, Saint Louis University High SchoolWallflower \n\n\n\nMohini Mahajan\, Clayton High SchoolWhen My Parents Were Kids \n\n\n\nJelani Penny-Johnson\, Metro Academic & Classical High SchoolStreet Justice \n\n\n\nPaul Thibodeau\, Saint Louis University High SchoolLunation \n\n\n\nBrie Shelley-Piccinini\, Ladue Horton Watkins High SchoolBird Named Love \n\n\n\n\n\n2024 NASH CONTEST WINNER & FINALISTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected by 2024 contest judge Hayan Charara \n\n\n\n\n\nFIRST PLACEAllison CundiffHop In \n\n\n\n\n\nFINALISTSMark W. KummingBreakfast \n\n\n\nJessica FreemanCuivre River
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/2024-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 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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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:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Raphael Maurice will take place on September 22\, 2024. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants.  Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due September 15\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAPHAEL MAURICE was born and raised in Missouri. He is the author of The Idiot’s Calendar and Without Music (both on Spartan Press). He’s written for numerous journals and outlets\, and he is co-editor at U City Review. 
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-september-2024/
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline
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SUMMARY:Poetry in the Woods: Application Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Applications for the October 2024 Poetry in the Woods Workshop are open through September 15.  Work on your poetry with award-winning faculty in inspiring outdoor locations around St. Louis! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry in the Woods takes place on October 4\, 5 & 6 at Castlewood State Park\, Forest Park\, Endangered Wolf Center\, & Wildlife Rescue Center.  2024 faculty includes James Kimbrell\, Jason Vasser-Elong\, Elizabeth Hoover\, Kerry James Evans\, Andrea Scarpino and Shane Seely. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAPPLICATION INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApplication takes only a minute or two and is free!Financial aid and scholarships available.Only 20 seats available. \n\n\n\nEarly submission is recommended. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW IN 2024 \n\n\n\n\nWorking on a Chapbook or a section of a larger book? PITW participants in 2024 have the option to get focused feedback from faculty on up to 10 pages of poetry.\n\n\n\nA mix of new and returning faculty members.\n\n\n\nSmall group workshop sessions with at least two faculty members per six participants.\n\n\n\nNew locations including: Forest Park\, Castlewood State Park\, and Wildlife Rescue Center.\n\n\n\nMore opportunities for organic interaction for faculty and participants.\n\n\n\nNew hiking locations! Enhanced rideshare options! And a campfire poetry reading/wolf howl!​\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE FACULTY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJAMES KIMBRELL directs the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University. His poems have appeared in anthologies including the Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, His most recent collection is Smote (2015\, Sarabande Books) and his forthcoming collection The Law of Truly Large Numbers is due out with the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJASON VASSER-ELONG is a professor of English and African American Studies in the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL)\, where he recently earned a Doctorate of Education with a focus in Educational Practice. He is an applied – anthropologist with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology with a concentration in African Diaspora studies. He is the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press\, 2018)\, a collection of poetry that analyzes identity in a post-colonial context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nELIZABETH HOOVER is an Assistant Professor at Webster University in Saint Louis where she teaches classes like Archival Poetics\, Genderqueer Frankenstein\, and LGBTQ+ Literature. She is a poet\, essayist\, and critic. Her first collection of poetry\, the archive is all in present tense\, received the 2021 Barrow Street Book Prize and her creative nonfiction has appeared in Southeast Review\, North American Review\, and StoryQuarterly. The recipient of the 2024 Pat Holt Prize for Critical Art Writing from Lambda Literary\, Elizabeth has writing about art\, film\, and books for such publications as Paper\, The Art Newspaper\, and the Washington Post. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKERRY JAMES EVANS is a professor in the MFA program at Georgia College & State University and serves as the poetry editor for Arts & Letters. He is the author of Bangalore (Copper Canyon)\, a Lannan Literary Selection. He earned a PhD in English from Florida State University\, an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale\, and a BA in English from Missouri State University. His forthcoming collection\, Nine Persimmons\, is due out in 2026 with University of Nebraska Press under its imprint\, The Backwaters Press. \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\nSHANE SEELY directs the MFA program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poems have appeared in journals nationwide\, including The Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Notre Dame Review\, and Antioch Review\, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He is the author of three previous books of poetry\, The First Echo (LSU Press\, 2019)\, The Surface of the Lit World (Ohio University Press\, 2015 – Winner of the Hollis Summer Poetry Prize) and The Snowbound House (Anhinga Press\, 2008 – Winner of the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-in-the-woods-2024-application-deadline/
CATEGORIES:Application Deadline,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Raphael Maurice
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \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 Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due September 20\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: September 20\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAPHAEL MAURICE was born and raised in Missouri. He is the author of The Idiot’s Calendar and Against Music (both on Spartan Press). He’s written for numerous journals and outlets\, and he is co-editor at U City Review.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-september-2024/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Niki Herd & Travis Mossotti
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Niki Herd and Travis Mossotti for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collections The Stuff of Hollywood (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and The Language of Shedding Skin (Main Street Rag\, 2011)\, the chapbook\, don’t you weep\, and coedited with Meg Day Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry\, essays\, and criticism appear in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets\, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day)\, Poetry Daily\, New England Review\, Salon\, and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky\, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell\, Ucross\, Bread Loaf\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, the Newberry Library\, and Cave Canem. Herd has taught at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Lancaster\, PA where she’s an assistant professor at Franklin & Marshall College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRAVIS MOSSOTTI‘s three previous collections are About the Dead\, Field Study\, and Narcissus Americana. His fourth collection\, Racecar Jesus\, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize (Black Spring Press Group UK\, 2023). Mossotti’s fifth collection\, Apocryphal Genesis\, won the Alma Book Award (Saturnalia Books\, 2024). He recently won the 2023 Wales Poetry Award\, and he currently serves as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-september-2024/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Ross Gay
DESCRIPTION:Reading from The Book of (More) Delights  and  Inciting Joy: Essays\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a celebration with award-winning and best-selling author Ross Gay for the paperback releases of The Book of (More) Delights and Inciting Joy.  We are delighted to welcome Ross Gay back to St. Louis for a discussion and book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS \n\n\n\nIn this second intimate collection of short\, lyrical\, genre-defying essays\, again written daily over a year\, one of America’s most original and observant voices celebrates the ordinary\, helping us see our extraordinary world anew. Among Ross Gay’s funny\, poetic\, philosophical delights: bonding with a pipsqueak of a puppy\, observing how his mother bakes eighteen kinds of cookies before her grandchildren arrive\, noticing the tenderness he feels when he sees an adult wearing braces\, and the recognition that for him the preamble is often more delightful than the thing itself: “Putting on your socks and tying up your shoes\, and\, if you’re the type\, filling up your water bottle and doing some light stretching\, but skipping the walk entirely.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINCITING JOY \n\n\n\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet and bestselling author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other\, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection and expand it. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space\, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? Full of energy\, curiosity\, and compassion\, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSS GAY is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry\, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022\, and his newest collection\, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-ross-gay/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Myrtie Reilly & Matthew Freeman
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo close out our 2024 readings focusing on community\, our friends at Re:Born (a monthly poetry reading at the Fortune Teller Bar) will be joining us! Matthew Freeman will read his own poems and his co-host Myrtie Reilly will read the work of other poets before discussing the process of crafting a regular poetry event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point.  Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMyrtie Reilly co-curates and hosts RE:BORN\, a monthly poetry reading and open mic event (@reborn.poetry.stl). By day\, she passionately serves as a teacher and child advocate. Myrtie proudly calls St. Louis City home and embraces friendship with all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Freeman is the author of seven books of poems\, most recently I Think I’d Rather Roar (Cerasus Poetry). He holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-St Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-october-2024/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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