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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Jason Vasser-Elong
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Jason Vasser-Elong for the October Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop focused on revision. \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 Sunday\, October 19\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this special 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: October 19\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDrawing Solutions: Creative Pathways Through Poetry \n\n\n\nThe writing process is as much about editing as it is the finished product\, and poetry is no different. Who says the editing process cannot include crayons\, colored pencils or paint markers? In this hands-on workshop\, participants are invited to bring in two poems in progress and explore revision through art making. We’ll experiment with bringing our words to life to reimagine language\, deepen feeling\, and invoke fresh approaches to the editing process. No art experience required\, just curiosity and a willingness to play. Materials will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJASON VASSER-ELONG\, the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press\, 2018)\, a collection of poetry that examines identity in a post-colonial context. He newest collection Lavendar is forthcoming this year. He has been featured in documentaries\, “Poetry in Motion: St. Louis Poets Take the Mic” and “Never been a Time” performing poetry\, and was recently featured in “Verse and Voice: The Podcast.” In September\, Jason will participate in Poetry in Motion: St. Louis Poets Take the Mic… LIVE at the High Low Listening Room. He holds a degree in anthropology\, a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry and is a doctor of education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-october-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Kieron Walquist
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to help celebrate Kieron Walquist for the release of Our Hands Hold Violence: Poems\, a National Poetry Series winner selected and with a forward by Brenda Hillman. This collection of poems explores rural Missouri\, violence\, queer desire / intimacy\, addiction\, familial and wildlife relationships. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Kieron Walquist’s poems are thrilling. He yokes together violences and intimacies\, arranges language into dazzling and resonant patterns\, and breaks open memory to release music that’s torqued and incandescent. This music is queer\, rooted in Missouri\, and announces the arrival of a voice that sings to and against the place that birthed it.” – Eduardo C. Corral\, author of Guillotine \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOUR HANDS HOLD VIOLENCE: POEMS \n\n\n\nThrough encounters with the everyday beauty and brutality so much a part of rural and urban Missouri\, Our Hands Hold Violence explores what it means to experience and/or perpetuate small and significant acts of violence\, toward others and the self. \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to hunt (be hunted)\, haunt (be haunted)\, and other (be othered)? Abiding by a chronological arc told in four movements ( HERE\, THERE\, TOGETHER\, ALONE)\, OHHV follows the speaker(s) as they come up in the Show Me State and come to terms with queerness\, mental disability\, addiction\, and loneliness in the largely Christian\, conservative\, and hyper-masculine landscape. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKIERON WALQUIST (he/they) is a queer neurospicy poet + visual artist from mid-Missouri. Their work appears in Best New Poets\, Gulf Coast\, IHLR\, The Missouri Review\, Pleiades\, Poet Lore\, Third Coast\, Waxwing\, + elsewhere. Their chapbook\, Love Locks\, was selected by Luther Hughes for the 2022 Quarterly West Chapbook Contest. He holds a BA from Lincoln University of Missouri\, an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis\, and has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center\, Monson Arts\, and Vermont Studio Center. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Utah and lives in Salt Lake City. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-kieron-walquist/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jamie Wendt & Glendal Wallace
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Jamie Wendt and Glendal Wallace. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJamie Wendt is the author of the poetry collection Fruit of the Earth (Main Street Rag\, 2018)\, which won the 2019 National Federation of Press Women Book Award in Poetry. Her second book\, Laughing in Yiddish\, is forthcoming in 2025 by Broadstone Books and was a finalist for the 2022 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. Her poems and essays have been published in various literary journals and anthologies\, including Feminine Rising\, Green Mountains Review\, Lilith\, Jet Fuel Review\, the Forward\, Poetica Magazine\, Catamaran\, and others. She contributes book reviews to the Jewish Book Council. She received a Pushcart Prize Honorable Mention and was nominated for Best Spiritual Literature. She was selected as an International Merit Award winner in the Atlanta Review 2022 International Poetry Competition. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska Omaha. She is a middle school Humanities teacher and lives in Chicago with her husband and two kids. https://jamie-wendt.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlendal Wallace is the author of two poetry collections\, Jewels of Fillmore and Unconnected Thoughts\, and soon to be published\, The Prose We Wear. An educator for over thirty years\, she has published essays\, short stories and in anthologies that inspire\, encourage and educate writers at all levels. She lives with her family in St. Louis where she continues to nurture her creative spirit from enjoying blissful walks and scenic cruise vacations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-october-2025/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:EVENT CANCELLED - Poemtober: Halloween Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLATION NOTICE:\n\n\n\nDue to illness\, this event has been canceled. Have a safe and fun Halloween! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to partner with Inktober this year to bring you Poemtober. In conjunction with Poemtober\, Saint Louis Poetry Center invites you to a special Halloween open mic! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm.Reading begins at 7:00pmCostumes encouraged \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE PARTY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome share your Poemtober poems at our Halloween open mic\, and bring your friends! Featuring: \n\n\n\n\nPoemtober Open Mic\n\n\n\nMusic and Costumes\n\n\n\nSnacks & Cash Bar\n\n\n\n\nYou do not need to participate in the open mic to attend the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT POEMTOBER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEach day throughout October\, we post a new word prompt to our social media channels. Use that word to inspire your writing\, and then come share your work at this community reading. We are here to support and encourage writers. We hope this project helps us all shift from that summertime haze into a place of creative generation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poemtober-reading-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED – Sunday Workshop: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLATION / RESCHEDULE NOTICE:\n\n\n\nDue to travel complications\, this workshop has been rescheduled to March 22\, 2026. \n\n\n\nOur November workshop will now take place with Elizabeth Hoover. Details here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Alyssa LaFaro (Calvocoressi) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our November Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the November Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop. \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 Wednesday\, November 12\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise 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: November 12\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize)\, and Rocket Fantastic\, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in  Marfa\, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation\, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler\, The New York Times\, POETRY\, Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Tin House\, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham\, NC\, where joy\, compassion\, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry\, The New Economy\, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-november-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Elizabeth Hoover
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Elizabeth Hoover for the November Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, November 12\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise 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: November 12\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nELIZABETH HOOVER is the author of the archive is all in present tense\, winner of the 2021 Barrow Street Book Prize. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in the North American Review\, Kenyon Review\, and StoryQuarterly. She teaches in the English Department at Webster University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-hoover-november-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED – Observable Readings: Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Claude Canese Jarboe
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLATION / RESCHEDULE NOTICE:\n\n\n\nDue to travel complications\, this event has been rescheduled to March 23\, 2026. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Alyssa LaFaro (Calvocoressi) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Claude Canese Jarboe for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize)\, and Rocket Fantastic\, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in  Marfa\, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation\, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler\, The New York Times\, POETRY\, Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Tin House\, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham\, NC\, where joy\, compassion\, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry\, The New Economy\, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLAUDE CANESE JARBOE is the author of SISSY (Garden-Door Press\, 2024). Jarboe is the 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow and managing editor of Pleiades at University of Central Missouri\, and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\, Tallgrass Artist Residency\, and Nō Studios. Their work has recently appeared in venues such as POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and Traffic East\, to name a few. Born and raised on a farm in rural southeastern Kansas\, Jarboe currently resides near Kansas City with their fiancée\, Andi. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-november-2025/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:SLCL Presents: Billy Collins
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Erin Quick\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a ticketed event. The reading will be held in-person at St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe St. Louis County Library Foundation\, the Favorite Author Series\, Left Bank Books and Saint Louis Poetry Center present former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins\, author of Dog Show: Poems. In conversation with Erin Quick\, executive director of Saint Louis Poetry Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins captures the essence and mystery of dogs in this special collection of poems inspired by our beloved companions\, with striking watercolor canine portraits by Pamela Sztybel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKET INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets can be purchased through Eventbrite. Seating will be offered on a first-come\, first-served basis.  A book signing line will follow the presentation. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nINDIVIDUAL TICKET – $28Admits ONE and includes one copy of “Dog Show” \n\n\n\nOR \n\n\n\nPACKAGE TICKET – $35Admits TWO and includes one copy of “Dog Show” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 6:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDOG SHOW: POEMS \n\n\n\nBilly Collins’s Dog Show celebrates the joy of our canine best friends\, honoring the love we feel for the animals who play such vital roles in our lives. In twenty-five poems\, Collins distills the many ways dogs warm our hearts\, from the happiness we experience as we watch a dog run unencumbered by our burdens\, to the silliness of cradling a dog in our arms as we step on the scale together. Turning his inimitable eye and ear to the complexities of dog behavior\, Collins ponders all that these winning creatures give us and what we learn from them about ourselves. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more than four decades Collins has delighted readers with his insight\, wit\, and clear poetic voice. In Dog Show\, “America’s favorite poet” ( The Wall Street Journal) illuminates America’s favorite pet (sorry\, cat lovers). Accompanied by Pamela Sztybel’s watercolors\, which effortlessly depict a dog’s humble grace\, Dog Show reveals the profound role these majestic animals play in our lives and the meaning they give us. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBILLY COLLINS is the author of fifteen collections of poetry\, including Sailing Alone Around the Room\, Aimless Love and\, most recently\, Water\, Water. He served two terms as United State Poet Laureate and is a former Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and New York State Poet. He is a New York Public Library Literary Lion and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently “between dogs\,” his most recent an Australian Shepherd mix named Jeannine. He lives in Winter Park\, Florida\, with his wife Suzannah. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/slcl-presents-billy-collins-2025/
LOCATION:St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch\, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63131-3598\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Emily Dickinson
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the Birthday and Poetry of Emily Dickinsona collaboration with Babler Poetry Society\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn celebration of Emily Dickinson’s birthday\, the Babler Poetry Society\, in collaboration with Saint Louis Poetry Center\, is delighted to present An Evening of Emily Dickinson. Known for her originality and sly wit\, Dickinson shaped American poetry with her short\, sharp lines and gift for image-making. Her poems\, by turns playful and mysterious\, continue to surprise and inspire readers around the world. Join us as we honor one of literature’s most brilliant and unconventional voices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors Open & Light Bites: 6:30–7:00 pm\n\n\n\nReading & Discussion: 7:00–8:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged but not required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE READERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDANA LEVIN is the author of five books poetry. Her latest is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon)\, a 2022 New York Times Notable Book and NPR “Book We Love.” She is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, and the Library of Congress\, as well as from the Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin teaches for the Bennington Writing Seminars\, the MFA program at Bennington College\, and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. Her first book of prose\, House of Feels\, comes out from Graywolf Press in 2027. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMELISSA QUALLS has taught literature\, composition\, and creative writing in the English department at Lindenwood University since 2002. She earned her MFA from Lindenwood University in 2018 and is an active member of Saint Louis Poetry Center\, Babler Poetry Society\, and Poetry in the Woods (2023\, 2024\, & 2025). Most recently\, her poem “They look so small\, lying there” won Honorable Mention in the 2024 Wednesday Club Original Poetry competition\, she has published two poems “For Nora” and “Wednesday Afternoon\, April 4th” in Nine Mile Literary Magazine (Fall 2024)\, and her poem “Wabi Sabi” won first place in Saturday Writers “Anything Goes” Contest (March 2025). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTEDDY NORRIS is a retired professor of English who taught composition\, poetry\, and creative writing for two decades and edited a community college literary journal for five years. Her work has appeared in various journals\, including Adanna\, Broad River Review\, Cable Street\, Flying South\, Kakalak\, Little Patuxent Review\, and The Switchgrass Review. She is the author of two chapbooks\, Pillars of Salt and In Transit\, published by Finishing Line Press and The Poetry Box\, respectively. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKRISTIN EMANUEL is a PhD candidate researching poetry and poetics at Washington University in St. Louis. Her debut poetry collection\, Birdwatching in the 4th Dimension\, was recently selected by Shann Ray as the winner of the 2025 Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize\, and it will be published by Willow Springs Books in early 2026. Poems from this collection have appeared or are forthcoming in Ecotone\, Boston Review\, and Poetry Northwest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBabler Poetry Society\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT ORGANIZERS
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/an-evening-of-emily-dickinson/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks,Poetry Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260116T235900
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260116T235900
DTSTAMP:20260416T215738
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due
DESCRIPTION:Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Melody S. Gee for the January Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Friday\, January 16\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise 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: January 16\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMELODY S. GEE is the author of We Carry Smoke and Paper: Essays on the Grief and Hope of Conversion (University of Iowa Press\, 2024)\, finalist for the Hudson Prize. She is also the author of three books of poetry\, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat\, The Dead in Daylight\, and Each Crumbling House\, winner of the 2010 Perugia Press Prize. Melody is the recipient of Kundiman fellowships in poetry and fiction\, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award\, Artist Support Grants from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis\, and two Pushcart Prize nominations\, among other honors. Her poems\, essays\, and reviews appear recently in Soapberry Review\, Commonweal\, Essay Daily\, and Lantern Review. \n\n\n\nBorn in Taiwan and raised in Cerritos\, California\, Melody is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley\, and the University of New Mexico. She has taught writing at Purdue University\, Southwestern Illinois College\, and St. Louis Community College\, and currently works as a communications strategist. She lives in St. Louis\, Missouri\, with her husband and daughters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-january-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260118T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260118T133000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Melody S. Gee
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: C. Smyth Photography \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Melody S. Gee for the January Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Friday\, January 16\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise 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: January 16\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this generative workshop\, participants will explore their writing processes through a variety of guided prompts. Together\, we’ll experiment with approach and generate new draft material in a supportive\, low-pressure space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMELODY S. GEE is the author of We Carry Smoke and Paper: Essays on the Grief and Hope of Conversion (University of Iowa Press\, 2024)\, finalist for the Hudson Prize. She is also the author of three books of poetry\, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat\, The Dead in Daylight\, and Each Crumbling House\, winner of the 2010 Perugia Press Prize. Melody is the recipient of Kundiman fellowships in poetry and fiction\, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award\, Artist Support Grants from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis\, and two Pushcart Prize nominations\, among other honors. Her poems\, essays\, and reviews appear recently in Soapberry Review\, Commonweal\, Essay Daily\, and Lantern Review. \n\n\n\nBorn in Taiwan and raised in Cerritos\, California\, Melody is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley\, and the University of New Mexico. She has taught writing at Purdue University\, Southwestern Illinois College\, and St. Louis Community College\, and currently works as a communications strategist. She lives in St. Louis\, Missouri\, with her husband and daughters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-january-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260127T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260127T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T215738
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Kamau Walker & Lydia Golitz
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Kamau Walker and Lydia Golitz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKAMAU WALKER is a poet from St. Louis\, Missouri\, currently enrolled in his third year as an MFA poetry candidate at the University of Virginia. He previously received a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University and spent time before his MFA program working as a high school teacher at John Burroughs School in St. Louis. He continues his love of ecology through his writing while also exploring community\, love\, music\, and the importance of the aforementioned in the presence of environmental degradation and systemically permitted/propagated discrimination and violence\, with the hope of understanding himself and the world around him. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLYDIA GOLITZ is a second-year MFA student at Washington University in St. Louis. She was born and raised in Chicago. Her work is published in Black Warrior Review\, Seneca Review\, Washington Square Review\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-january-2026/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260213T235900
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260213T235900
DTSTAMP:20260416T215738
CREATED:20260129T000859Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due (Coleman)
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Aaron Coleman for Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop focused on attention and gratitude. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow We Attune to Gratitude \n\n\n\nIn this workshop we will explore how poets cultivate an intimate sense of attention: attuning to the complexity of the world(s) around us and the world(s) within us. We’ll dwell together with poems and writing prompts that cultivate our sense of careful attention and we’ll contemplate together what that attention makes possible\, especially gratitude\, especially communal connection\, and maybe even joy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Friday\, February 13\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this special 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: February 13\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAARON COLEMAN is a poet\, translator\, educator\, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts\, Cave Canem\, the Fulbright Program\, and the American Literary Translators Association. His debut poetry collection\, Threat Come Close\, was the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award\, and his chapbook\, St. Trigger\, won the Button Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén’s 1967 collection\, The Great Zoo\, selected for the Phoenix Poet Series by University of Chicago Press. His poems\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New York Times\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, and Poetry Magazine. From Metro-Detroit\, Coleman has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain\, South Africa\, Chicago\, St. Louis\, and Kalamazoo. He is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-coleman-february-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260213T235900
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260213T235900
DTSTAMP:20260416T215738
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due (Kuipers)
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Keetje Kuipers for Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop focused on the poetics of humility. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Poetics of Humility: Writing Worm-Level Poems \n\n\n\nWhat might it be like for our poems to get down in the dirt\, to put ourselves and our poems at worm level? In this class\, we will concentrate on writing towards the places in our poems where humility manifests itself as a clarity of vision of ourselves in relation to the world. We’ll accomplish this through reading and writing that asks each of us to create a poetics of humility that yields not a poem of regret but of wonder—at change\, at realization\, at the endless\, humble prospect of still-to-be-seen possibility. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Friday\, February 13\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this special 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: February 13\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKEETJE KUIPERS is the author of four books of poetry from BOA Editions\, and the Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Northwest. Her collection Lonely Women Make Good Lovers is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award\, and was called “elegant\, earthy\, [and] pertinent\,” by Marilyn Hacker. Her first book\, Beautiful in the Mouth\, won the A. Poulin\, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her subsequent books\, The Keys to the Jail and All Its Charms\, include poems honored with publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje’s poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and over a hundred other publications. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, a Bread Loaf Fellow\, the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident\, a former board member and Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle\, and is the recipient of a 2025 NEA fellowship. She lives in Montana with her wife and children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-kuipers-february-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260215T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260215T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T215738
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Aaron Coleman
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Marcus Jackson \n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Aaron Coleman for Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop focused on attention and gratitude. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Friday\, February 13\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this special 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: February 13\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow We Attune to Gratitude \n\n\n\nIn this workshop we will explore how poets cultivate an intimate sense of attention: attuning to the complexity of the world(s) around us and the world(s) within us. We’ll dwell together with poems and writing prompts that cultivate our sense of careful attention and we’ll contemplate together what that attention makes possible\, especially gratitude\, especially communal connection\, and maybe even joy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAARON COLEMAN is a poet\, translator\, educator\, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts\, Cave Canem\, the Fulbright Program\, and the American Literary Translators Association. His debut poetry collection\, Threat Come Close\, was the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award\, and his chapbook\, St. Trigger\, won the Button Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén’s 1967 collection\, The Great Zoo\, selected for the Phoenix Poet Series by University of Chicago Press. His poems\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New York Times\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, and Poetry Magazine. From Metro-Detroit\, Coleman has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain\, South Africa\, Chicago\, St. Louis\, and Kalamazoo. He is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-coleman-february-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260215T133000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Keetje Kuipers
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Keetje Kuipers for Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop focused on the poetics of humility. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Friday\, February 13\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this special 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: February 13\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Poetics of Humility: Writing Worm-Level Poems \n\n\n\nWhat might it be like for our poems to get down in the dirt\, to put ourselves and our poems at worm level? In this class\, we will concentrate on writing towards the places in our poems where humility manifests itself as a clarity of vision of ourselves in relation to the world. We’ll accomplish this through reading and writing that asks each of us to create a poetics of humility that yields not a poem of regret but of wonder—at change\, at realization\, at the endless\, humble prospect of still-to-be-seen possibility. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKEETJE KUIPERS is the author of four books of poetry from BOA Editions\, and the Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Northwest. Her collection Lonely Women Make Good Lovers is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award\, and was called “elegant\, earthy\, [and] pertinent\,” by Marilyn Hacker. Her first book\, Beautiful in the Mouth\, won the A. Poulin\, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her subsequent books\, The Keys to the Jail and All Its Charms\, include poems honored with publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje’s poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and over a hundred other publications. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, a Bread Loaf Fellow\, the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident\, a former board member and Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle\, and is the recipient of a 2025 NEA fellowship. She lives in Montana with her wife and children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-kuipers-february-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260216T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T215738
CREATED:20260128T232500Z
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Keetje Kuipers & Aaron Coleman
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Marcus Jackson (Coleman) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Keetje Kuipers and Aaron Coleman for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKEETJE KUIPERS is the author of four books of poetry from BOA Editions\, and the Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Northwest. Her collection Lonely Women Make Good Lovers is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award\, and was called “elegant\, earthy\, [and] pertinent\,” by Marilyn Hacker. Her first book\, Beautiful in the Mouth\, won the A. Poulin\, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her subsequent books\, The Keys to the Jail and All Its Charms\, include poems honored with publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje’s poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and over a hundred other publications. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, a Bread Loaf Fellow\, the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident\, a former board member and Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle\, and is the recipient of a 2025 NEA fellowship. She lives in Montana with her wife and children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAARON COLEMAN is a poet\, translator\, educator\, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts\, Cave Canem\, the Fulbright Program\, and the American Literary Translators Association. His debut poetry collection\, Threat Come Close\, was the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award\, and his chapbook\, St. Trigger\, won the Button Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén’s 1967 collection\, The Great Zoo\, selected for the Phoenix Poet Series by University of Chicago Press. His poems\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New York Times\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, and Poetry Magazine. From Metro-Detroit\, Coleman has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain\, South Africa\, Chicago\, St. Louis\, and Kalamazoo. He is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-february-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
DESCRIPTION:Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Mary Jo Bang for the March Sunday Workshop! This will be a traditional / revision workshop. \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 by Wednesday\, March 11\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: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\nSUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 11\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG has published nine collections of poetry\, including Elegy\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and translations of Dante’s Inferno\, Purgatorio and Paradiso. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-march-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Mary Jo Bang for the March Sunday Workshop! This will be a traditional / revision workshop. \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 by Wednesday\, March 11\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: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\nSUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 11\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG has published nine collections of poetry\, including Elegy\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and translations of Dante’s Inferno\, Purgatorio and Paradiso. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-march-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP FULL - Sunday Workshop: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP REGISTRATION UPDATE:\n\n\n\nThis workshop is currently at capacity. If you would like to be added to our waitlist\, please email us: sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Alyssa LaFaro \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our March Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a special additional March Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 25 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, March 18\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise 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: March 18\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize)\, and Rocket Fantastic\, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in  Marfa\, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation\, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler\, The New York Times\, POETRY\, Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Tin House\, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham\, NC\, where joy\, compassion\, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry\, The New Economy\, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-calvocoressi-march-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Claude Canese Jarboe
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Alyssa LaFaro (Calvocoressi) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Claude Canese Jarboe for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize)\, and Rocket Fantastic\, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in  Marfa\, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation\, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler\, The New York Times\, POETRY\, Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Tin House\, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham\, NC\, where joy\, compassion\, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry\, The New Economy\, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLAUDE CANESE JARBOE is the author of SISSY (Garden-Door Press\, 2024). Jarboe is the 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow and managing editor of Pleiades at University of Central Missouri\, and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\, Tallgrass Artist Residency\, and Nō Studios. Their work has recently appeared in venues such as POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and Traffic East\, to name a few. Born and raised on a farm in rural southeastern Kansas\, Jarboe currently resides near Kansas City with their fiancée\, Andi. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-march-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Angel C. Dye & Lindsay McHugh
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Angel C. Dye and Lindsay McHugh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nANGEL C. DYE is a poet and professor of African American Literature with roots in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin and Dallas-Ft. Worth\, Texas. Dye received her B.A. in English from Howard University\, her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky\, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literatures from Rutgers. She is the author of two poetry collections entitled BREATHE (2021) and My Mouth a Constant Prayer (2023)\, and her work has appeared widely in journals and magazines. Dye teaches courses on Black women’s writing\, Harlem Renaissance Literature & Culture\, and more at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLINDSAY McHUGH is a poet and journalist based in St. Louis. Her debut chapbook\, un-memory\, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2025. She publishes journalism under the byline Lindsay Toler. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-march-2026/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Aiden Heung
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with poet Mary Jo Bang\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Poetry Month Celebration! We are thrilled to partner with Left Bank Books to welcome Aiden Heung and Mary Jo Bang for a night of poetry celebrating the new release of All There Is to Lose by Aiden Heung. Heung holds an MFA in creative writing from Washington University. He is the 2024 winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the DISQUIET Prize\, a winner of the International Proverse Poetry Prize\, and the recipient of 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize\, selected by Diane Seuss. Join us for a reading and book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“What I love most in this book is how the images and details carry emotion via perspective\, while lyrical in turn of phrase. Often understated\, pared down\, the poetry lives here in specifics that emote: A mother scrubs clean the headstone carvings\, a man remembers laughing after he watched his father enter the river twenty years ago\, travelers sleep with their heads on greasy bags. Each detail carries an undertow of emotion.” – Ilya Kaminsky\, Judge of the 2024 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALL THERE IS TO LOSE \n\n\n\nMarking Aiden Heung’s debut collection\, All There Is to Lose is the 2024 winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. The selecting judge\, National Book Award Finalist Ilya Kaminsky\, praises the resonant particularities and depth of feeling found in these poems\, which convert “elegy [into] its driving force.” Poet and Critic Felicity Plunkett observes\, “Dreams and memory move through these porous\, venturesome poems. The spectral jostles with the sensual to tell ‘a story in which I could be found.’ Achily tender\, they open to light\, love and the jab of a joke.” Poet David Tait notes\, “Unsettling and luminous\, the poems preserve the memory of Village 915: its volatile seasons and hard-worn inhabitants\, its headstones\, spirits\, and myriad forms of water. Here you’ll find not only poems of lyrical beauty\, but of grim exactness.” The result is a stunning achievement of a first book\, what Kaminsky identifies as an exemplar of “that ages-old mode of poetry wherein the poet uses language to break bread with the dead\, to bring them back to life\, if only for the moment\, for a portion of the moment\, an instant\, before the line breaks.” Channeling the poet as medium\, “I am the tension on the bow that draws the arrow\,” Heung writes in “Epilogue.” “To lose myself — that is my destiny.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAIDEN HEUNG (he/they) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous town. After working as a traveling salesman for years\, he recently relocated to St. Louis\, USA. His poems have been published in Australian Poetry Journal\, Harvard Review\, The Kenyon Review\, The Yale Review\, 声韵诗刊 (Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine)\, and many other places. He is a finalist for the DISQUIET Prize\, a winner of the International Proverse Poetry Prize\, and the recipient of 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize\, selected by Diane Seuss. He and his work have been generously supported by Varuna\, The National Writers’ House (Australia) and Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency (Switzerland/ Shanghai\, China). He holds an MFA in creative writing from Washington University. \n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG has published nine collections of poetry\, including Elegy\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and translations of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-aiden-heung/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:HIGH NOON: The Lines That Brought Us Here
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating 80 Years with Saint Louis Poetry Center\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, Erin Quick\, Executive Director of Saint Louis Poetry Center\, presents a lunchtime talk marking the organization’s 80th anniversary. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHigh Noon offers free cultural and artistic programming\, during your lunch hour! The High Noon series features St. Louis thought leaders from across the arts\, cultural\, and educational spectrum. Spend a lunch hour enjoying presentations and performances in a friendly\, relaxed atmosphere – take a break\, and feel free to bring your lunch! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/high-noon-april-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
DESCRIPTION:Saint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poet Teresa Dzieglewicz for the April Sunday Workshop! This will be a traditional / revision workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Friday\, April 17\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: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\nSUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 17\, 2026\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). With Natasha Mijares\, she organizes “Watershed: Ways of Seeing the Chicago River”. Her first book of poetry\, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children’s book\, Belonging\, co-written with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize\, Best New Poets\, the Gingko Prize\, the Auburn Witness Prize\, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, Community of Writers at Tahoe\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, and Brooklyn Poets. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago\, on Potawatomi land.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-april-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Teresa Dzieglewicz
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poet Teresa Dzieglewicz for the April Sunday Workshop! This will be a traditional / revision workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Friday\, April 17\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: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\nSUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 17\, 2026\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). With Natasha Mijares\, she organizes “Watershed: Ways of Seeing the Chicago River”. Her first book of poetry\, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children’s book\, Belonging\, co-written with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize\, Best New Poets\, the Gingko Prize\, the Auburn Witness Prize\, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, Community of Writers at Tahoe\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, and Brooklyn Poets. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago\, on Potawatomi land.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-april-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Teresa Dzieglewicz & C. Russell Price
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Teresa Dzieglewicz and C. Russell Price for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTERESA DZIEGLEWICZ is a poet\, educator\, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute\, a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center\, and part of the founding team of Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School). With Natasha Mijares\, she organizes “Watershed: Ways of Seeing the Chicago River”. Her first book of poetry\, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children’s book\, Belonging\, co-written with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize\, Best New Poets\, the Gingko Prize\, the Auburn Witness Prize\, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, Community of Writers at Tahoe\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, and Brooklyn Poets. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago\, on Potawatomi land.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC. RUSSELL PRICE is the author of oh\, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems and Tonight\, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other. Their newest collection Bisquick: An American Seance will be published in August 2026 by Northwestern University Press. They are a poet in residence at the Chicago Poetry Center\, a Lambda Fellow\, a Ragdale Fellow\, Literary Death Match champion\, and two-time Lit 50 honoree. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-april-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:SLICE & SLPC Present: Sip & Scribe
DESCRIPTION:Coffee and composition in community!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHang out\, write things\, share your work. Join SLICE and the Saint Louis Poetry Center for an afternoon of writing! \n\n\n\nDo you love SLICE and the idea of Drink & Draws\, but your preferred medium is typically textual? Well\, fret not\, as this year SLICE is proud to introduce Sip & Scribe\, in collaboration with the Saint Louis Poetry Center! Grab a cup of coffee at Blueprint before coming upstairs for semi-structured writing time and share your poems\, short stories\, novel excerpts\, and more. Come hang out and write things surrounded by SLICE friends. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served.\n\n\n\nThose registering are expected to attend the workshop.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sip-and-scribe-april-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Miguel Barretto-García & Nicole Brunette
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Miguel Barretto-García & Nicole Brunette. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMIGUEL BARRETTO-GARCÍA is a spoken word performer and neuroscientist in St. Louis. Their poems have appeared or have been in accepted in The Iowa Review\, Poetry Northwest\, & Change\, Wildness\, Rhino Poetry\, and Rattle\, among others. They have previously performed in the spoken word and poetry slam circuits in Switzerland and the US\, notably at the Zurich Theatre Spectacle\, The Chicago Filipino American Theatre Festival\, and Goodie House in St. Louis. They completed their PhD in Neuroecoconomics at the University of Zürich and they are currently a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNICOLE BRUNETTE is a St. Louis native with a lifelong fascination for the things that scare her most. When she isn’t researching unsettling topics or working as a bookseller\, she writes about the strange and beautiful world of bugs. Nicole recently completed her MFA\, finishing her poetry thesis Anamnesis\, a collection that blends her earlier work with original art and photography. Her writing has appeared in several online\, music-centered magazines. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry at the Point series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-april-2026/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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