BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Saint Louis Poetry Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Saint Louis Poetry Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Saint Louis Poetry Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230911T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230911T180000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230829T214840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230901T200205Z UID:10000522-1694455200-1694455200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Brian Teare & Dana Levin - Night of Poetry & Discussion DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\nLeft Bank Books and Saint Louis Poetry Center present critically acclaimed poets Brian Teare & Dana Levin\, who will discuss themes from their newest books\, focusing on transforming oppressions of body and family—chronic illness and abusive family environments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn-person and virtual event.RSVP encouraged here.Books available from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOEM BITTEN BY A MANBrian Teare \n\n\n\nA medical emergency\, a road trip\, a breakup\, and a paean to the power of creative process– Poem Bitten by a Man is for everyone who has tried against the odds to make a life in art\, whether they succeeded or not. Using somatic language captured through a notebook practice\, Teare recontextualizes the work of Agnes Martin\, Jasper Johns\, and others via art criticism\, psychoanalysis\, biography\, queer theory\, and historical document to honor writers\, artists\, and thinkers who sustain us when nothing else does. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU AREDana Levin \n\n\n\nWritten between 2016 and 2020\, Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out “to be a messenger—to record whatever wanted to stream through.” Levin works in a variety of forms\, calling on beloveds and ancestors\, great thinkers and religions—convened by her own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality. Balancing clear-eyed forensics of the past with vatic knowledge of the future\, Levin writes: “So many bodies a soul has to press through: personal\, familial\, regional\, national\, global\, planetary\, cosmic— // ‘Now do you know where you are?’”  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, BRIAN TEARE is the author of seven critically acclaimed books\, including Doomstead Days\, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent publications are a pair of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction\, chronic illness\, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven\, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. An Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia\, Brian lives in Charlottesville\, where he makes books by hand for his micropress\, Albion Books. \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 Press)\, a 2022 New York Times Notable Book and NPR “Book We Love.” Other books include Banana Palace (2016) and Sky Burial (2011)\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poems and essays have appeared in Poem-a-day\, Best American Poetry\, The American Poetry Review\, and Poetry\, among other publications. She is a grateful recipient of many honors\, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, and the Library of Congress\, as well as from the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting\, and Guggenheim Foundations. With Adele Elise Williams\, she co-edited Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master (2023) for the Unsung Masters Series. Levin serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University 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\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/teare-levin/ LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LBB2324-0911-900x300-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230910T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230910T133000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230829T220247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230907T155017Z UID:10000521-1694352600-1694352600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop Special Event: Brian Teare DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at Central Library – St. Louis Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with Brian Teare & Dana Levin – Night of Poetry & Discussion\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome Brian Teare for a Sunday Workshop Special Event! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis special two-hour workshop will be a generative 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 Central Library – St. Louis Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: these workshops are limited to 10 participants each. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Friday\, September 8\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 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: September 8\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBRIAN TEARE Ekphrasis Workshop \n\n\n\nThis ekphrasis-based generative workshop will focus on producing new poetic language and forms through conversation with another art. It will begin with a brief introduction to ekphrastic poetry\, after which participants will work from a self-chosen inspiring image\, song or piece of music\, film\, or other art form. Together participants will explore the ways that language expands upon what’s possible in the visual or aural field. At the end of the workshop\, Teare will offer some techniques from visual art to open up drafts-in-progress and re-energize poets’ relationship to revision by re-seeing it as an active\, liberating process with many possibilities.  \n\n\n\nNote: aside from a writing implement and notebook\, participants should bring a visual image\, video\, piece of music (or other art form) to which you feel especially connected. Please bring a phone or laptop and earphones if you need to watch or listen to something while you write. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, BRIAN TEARE is the author of seven critically acclaimed books\, including Doomstead Days\, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent publications are a pair of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction\, chronic illness\, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven\, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. An Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia\, Brian lives in Charlottesville\, where he makes books by hand for his micropress\, Albion Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/special-sunday-workshop-september-2023/ LOCATION:Central Library – St. Louis Public Library\, 1301 Olive St\, St. Louis\, Missouri\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SW2324-0910-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230908T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230908T235900 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230829T221240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230901T200031Z UID:10000523-1694217540-1694217540@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with Brian Teare & Dana Levin – Night of Poetry & Discussion\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome Brian Teare for a Sunday Workshop Special Event! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis special two-hour workshop will be a generative workshop. \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: these workshops are limited to 10 participants each. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Friday\, September 8\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 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: September 8\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBRIAN TEARE Ekphrasis Workshop \n\n\n\nThis ekphrasis-based generative workshop will focus on producing new poetic language and forms through conversation with another art. It will begin with a brief introduction to ekphrastic poetry\, after which participants will work from a self-chosen inspiring image\, song or piece of music\, film\, or other art form. Together participants will explore the ways that language expands upon what’s possible in the visual or aural field. At the end of the workshop\, Teare will offer some techniques from visual art to open up drafts-in-progress and re-energize poets’ relationship to revision by re-seeing it as an active\, liberating process with many possibilities.  \n\n\n\nNote: aside from a writing implement and notebook\, participants should bring a visual image\, video\, piece of music (or other art form) to which you feel especially connected. Please bring a phone or laptop and earphones if you need to watch or listen to something while you write. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, BRIAN TEARE is the author of seven critically acclaimed books\, including Doomstead Days\, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent publications are a pair of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction\, chronic illness\, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven\, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. An Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia\, Brian lives in Charlottesville\, where he makes books by hand for his micropress\, Albion Books. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-september-2023/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SW2324-0908-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230827T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230827T133000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230820T150052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230820T150515Z UID:10000519-1693143000-1693143000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Elizabeth Hoover 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. Learn more >> \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 August 23\, 2023\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: August 23\, 2023\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-august-2023/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SW2324-0827-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230823T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230823T235900 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230820T151326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230901T195745Z UID:10000520-1692835140-1692835140@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:The rescheduled Sunday Workshop with Elizabeth Hoover will take place on August 27\, 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\nRegistration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due August 23\, 2023\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\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. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-august-2023/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SW2324-0823-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230822T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230822T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230819T162759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230822T174809Z UID:10000518-1692732600-1692732600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Gloria Day & Lesley Day 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\nGloria Day is a writer and illustrator who is currently based in St. Louis\, MO. Though she spent nearly a decade of her life teaching at the early childhood and elementary school levels\, she has continued to grow as a poet and author of self-published children’s books over the years. Though most of her work is inspired by her love and respect for children and their perspective\, her goal is to spend more time digging into heavier and more complex subjects for adults through poetry. In 2020\, she took on the role of full time caregiver for her mother who was diagnosed with dementia. Fully understanding the responsibility and the ever-evolving challenges of caregiving\, her most recent poetry has been shaped by her new role. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLesley Day is the author of Authenticity\, a raw collection of poetry that tells a story of the darkest tales\, and the deepest thoughts. Day has been published in several anthologies\, but Authenticity (Ink Soul Publishing 2022) is her first full length collection. Her forthcoming collections The Absence of Light and IMPACT – A Woman’s Story from Surviving to Living (Ink Soul Publishing) will be released in 2023. Day travels throughout Missouri performing her poetry and is the host of Sunday Night Poetry at Spine Bookstore & Café in St. Louis\, Missouri\, and Jefferson County Poetry and Open Mic Night at Savannah’s Coffee Corral in Pevely\, Missouri. Day resides in a small town in Missouri\, with her two young daughters and her one little pupkid. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-august-2023/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PP2324-0822-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230725T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230725T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230721T194040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230725T182915Z UID:10000517-1690313400-1690313400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Mikkel Snyder & Aubrey Byron 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\nMikkel Snyder is a Filipino-American writer based in St. Louis. An instructional technical writer by trade for the last eight years\, Mikkel has been a creative writer for far longer and has dabbled with poetry\, fiction\, zines\, pop culture journalism\, and more recently creative nonfiction. They are a co-publisher of FreezeRay Poetry and writer for Black Nerd Problems. Their poems have been featured in Radius Lit\, decomP\, and Button Poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAubrey Byron is a writer and journalist from St. Louis\, Missouri. She has written for Slate\, Gear Junkie\, Streetsblog\, and Feast Magazine. She is working on her first collection of poems\, many of which are inspired by nature. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-july-2023/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PP2223-0725-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230716T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230716T133000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230627T183746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T183748Z UID:10000515-1689514200-1689514200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Allison Joseph 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. Learn more >> \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 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: July 9\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALLISON JOSEPH lives in Carbondale\, Illinois\, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press\, 2021\, winner of the Best Book of 2021 Award from Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference)\, Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books\, 2022)\, Speak and Spell (Glass Lyre Press\, 2022)\, and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press\, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award in Poetry. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. Her next book\, Dwelling\, will be published by Red Hen in 2025. Her chapbook Recover will be published in 2024 by Word Poetry.  She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-july-2023/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SW2223-0625-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230709T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230709T235900 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230627T184559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T184601Z UID:10000516-1688947140-1688947140@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:The rescheduled Sunday Workshop with Allison Joseph will take place on July 16\, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \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\nRegistration 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\nALLISON JOSEPH lives in Carbondale\, Illinois\, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press\, 2021\, winner of the Best Book of 2021 Award from Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference)\, Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books\, 2022)\, Speak and Spell (Glass Lyre Press\, 2022)\, and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press\, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award in Poetry. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. Her next book\, Dwelling\, will be published by Red Hen in 2025. Her chapbook Recover will be published in 2024 by Word Poetry.  She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-july-2023/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SW2223-0709-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230627T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230627T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230615T002938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T190026Z UID:10000514-1687894200-1687894200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Daniel Biegelson\, Kat Carroll & Tim Rowden 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\nDaniel Biegelson is the author of the book of being neighbors (Ricochet Editions) and the chapbook Only the Borrowed Light (VERSE). He serves as the Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Northwest Missouri State University\, where he also works as an editor for The Laurel Review. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana and an MA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He hails from New Jersey and lives near Kansas City with his wife and two kids. Find him at danielbiegelson.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKat Carroll is a poet\, artist\, and climate-focused clean energy researcher. Kat is from Omaha\, Nebraska originally\, where she received a Bachelors of Environmental Science at Creighton University\, and recently moved from New York\, where she completed a Masters in Environmental Policy at Bard College. She recently completed the second of two chapbooks. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Rowden is a poet\, journalist and suicide loss survivor. Following the loss of his son\, Ian\, in 2021\, he found refuge and healing in poetry. His poems chart a journey through grief\, loss healing and forgiveness and are part of a chapbook in development. Tim is the editor of the St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune\, founder of The Grief Project and a presenter for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-june-2023/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/PP2223-0627-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230625T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230625T133000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230615T000833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T183804Z UID:10000513-1687699800-1687699800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Allison Joseph - CANCELLED DESCRIPTION:This workshop has been cancelled & rescheduled to July 16\, 2023. \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. Learn more >> \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 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: June 18\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALLISON JOSEPH lives in Carbondale\, Illinois\, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press\, 2021\, winner of the Best Book of 2021 Award from Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference)\, Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books\, 2022)\, Speak and Spell (Glass Lyre Press\, 2022)\, and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press\, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award in Poetry. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. Her next book\, Dwelling\, will be published by Red Hen in 2025. Her chapbook Recover will be published in 2024 by Word Poetry.  She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-june-2023/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SW2223-0625-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230618T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230618T235900 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230615T000138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T184641Z UID:10000512-1687132740-1687132740@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Allison Joseph will take place on June 25\, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \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\nRegistration 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\nALLISON JOSEPH lives in Carbondale\, Illinois\, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press\, 2021\, winner of the Best Book of 2021 Award from Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference)\, Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books\, 2022)\, Speak and Spell (Glass Lyre Press\, 2022)\, and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press\, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award in Poetry. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. Her next book\, Dwelling\, will be published by Red Hen in 2025. Her chapbook Recover will be published in 2024 by Word Poetry.  She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-june-2023/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SW2223-0625-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230523T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230523T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230508T222737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T163302Z UID:10000509-1684870200-1684870200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Richard Stimac\, Andy Chen & Jill Firns 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\nRichard Stimac has a full-length book of poetry Bricolage (Spartan Press)\, a forth-coming poetry chapbook Of Water and of Stone (Moonstone) and published over thirty poems in Burningword\, Clackamas\, december\, The Examined Life Journal\, Faultline\, Havik (Third Place 2021 Poetry Contest)\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Mikrokosmos (Second Place 2022 Poetry Contest; A.E. Stallings\, judge)\, New Plains Review\, NOVUS\, Penumbra\, Salmon Creek Journal\, Talon Review\, and Wraparound South. He has also had an informal readings of plays by the St. Louis Writers’ Group and Gulf Coast: Playwright’s Circle\, plays published in The AutoEthnographer\, Fresh Words and Hive Avenue Literary Journal\, and an essay in The Midwest Quarterly. A screenplay of his is in pre-production. He is a poetry reader for Ariel Publishing and Clepsydra. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndy Chen was born and raised in New Jersey. He is a Kundiman graduate and holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Ploughshares\, New England Review\, december\, The Offing\, and Denver Quarterly\, and his reviews appear in Hong Kong Review of Books\, Hyphen\, and Colorado Review. He teaches at John Burroughs School in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJill Firns is a queer poet and aspiring novelist in St. Louis. As a youngster\, she once had a re-imagination of “Roses are Red…” published in the St. Louis Post Dispatch and has been interested in writing ever since. She is a devoted attendee of Undercurrent\, a weekly poetry workshop lead by internationally-recognized slam poet Desiree Dallagiacomo\, and has had work published in Preposition: The Undercurrent Anthology. Through heavy imagery and storytelling masquerading as poetry\, she explores relationships with the natural world\, with others\, and with the self. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-may-2023/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PP2223-0523-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230522T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230522T180000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230521T173826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T161434Z UID:10000511-1684778400-1684778400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:2023 Hopkins Contest 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 2023 Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest for High School Students\, selected by our 2023 contest judge Allison Joseph. Students from high schools across the St. Louis metro area will come together to share their work with the wider community. Light refreshments will be served. \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\n2023 CONTEST WINNERS & HONORABLE MENTIONS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIRST PLACEHira Ahmed\, Parkway South High Schoolthe motherland – \n\n\n\nSECOND PLACEShangri-La Hou\, John Burroughs SchoolSecond Migration \n\n\n\nTHIRD PLACEOvya Diwakaran\, Ladue Horton Watkins High SchoolIdentity Series Poems\, I and II \n\n\n\n\n\nHONORABLE MENTIONSZayna Fakhani\, Parkway South High SchoolEmpire \n\n\n\nMeg Handley\, Nerinx Hall High SchoolQuilts \n\n\n\nShangri-La Hou\, John Burroughs SchoolSandia \n\n\n\nBethany Lai\, Clayton High SchoolXi Herculis \n\n\n\nMohini Mahajan\, Clayton High SchoolA Floridian’s Pastoral: From Heat-Waves to Hieratic URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/2023-hopkins-contest-award-ceremony/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/HOP2223-052223-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230518T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230518T180000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230516T233354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230521T171126Z UID:10000510-1684432800-1684432800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Outside LitMag Issue 7 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\nImage credit: Lynden McAllister (Collegiate School of Medicine & Bioscience)\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 7. This special event will celebrate the talented young artists who have worked hard to make this magazine possible. Students from across St. Louis will come together to share their work with the wider community. Many of the contributors will be performing their pieces for the first time! Copies of Issue 7 will be available for purchase at the event. Light refreshments will be served. \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 Sponsors:Margaret SchuhAlex GraffTeacher: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)Morgan Kemp (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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMajor support for Outside Literary Magazine program expansion last year and this year is provided by the Mid-America Arts Alliance through the Interchange Artist Grant program. Read the press release >> URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/outside-litmag-issue-7-release/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/OSLM_Webassets_Calander.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230425T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230425T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230405T160242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T224943Z UID:10000508-1682451000-1682451000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Pamela Garvey\, Brooking Gatewood\, Karen Head 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. Please note the livestream can only be viewed the night of the event. \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\nPamela Garvey is the author of the collection of poetry Seven Miles Deep (Five Oaks P\, 2017). Her poetry\, prose and book reviews have appeared in Esquire\, Missouri Review\, Margie\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, The North American Review and many other journals. Honors include being a semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/The Nation prize. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks\, Things Impossible to Swallow (2River Press\, 2013)\, and Fear (Finishing Line Press\, 2008)\, a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Competition. Garvey is also a playwright. Her most recent production of the full length play\, The Piddlings\, was 2018. She is currently working on a book of lyric essays centered on raising a son with mental illness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrooking Gatewood has been writing in verse since she could hold a crayon\, and has a history of scheming up interactive performance experiments that bring poetry off the page and back into the body\, in community – from salons and walking tours and embodied language workshops to a Tedx Talk and mixed-media collaborations. Born/raised in STL\, she’s absurdly happy to be back and re-rooting in riverside soil after many years in California\, and is currently pursuing her MFA with Shane Seely at UMSL. She recently won the 2022 UMSL Graduate Prize in Poetry\, the 2022 Deanne Wagner Poetry Contest\, and is published in Bad Ken: A Journal of Place (forthcoming). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Head is the author of Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology (a nonfiction book about issues in contemporary higher education)\, as well as five books of poetry: Lost on Purpose\, Sassing\, My Paris Year\, Shadow Boxes and On Occasion: Four Poets\, One Year. She also co-edited the poetry anthology Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Poetry\, and has exhibited several acclaimed digital poetry projects\, including her project “Monumental” (part of Antony Gormley’s One and Other Project) which was detailed in a TIME online mini-documentary. Her poetry appears in a number of national and international journals and anthologies. In 2010 she won the Oxford International Women’s Festival Poetry Prize. Head has held residencies at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts-France. She has also taught in study abroad programs in Barcelona\, Spain and Oxford\, England. She serves as Editor of the international poetry journal Atlanta Review\, and as secretary for the Poetry Atlanta Board of Directors. On a more unusual note\, she is the Poet Laureate of Waffle House—a title that reflects an outreach program to bring arts awareness to rural high schools in Georgia\, which has been generously sponsored by the Waffle House Foundation. She is also the Poet Laureate of Fulton County\, Georgia. She is a Professor at Missouri S&T. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-april-2023/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PP2223-0425-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230415T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230415T100000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230321T164959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T212947Z UID:10000506-1681552800-1681552800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Saturday Workshop Special Event: Shelley Wong & Ina Cariño DESCRIPTION:These workshops 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 Kundiman poets Shelley Wong and Ina Cariño for a Sunday Workshop Special Event – on a Saturday! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese two-hour generative workshops will run concurrently\, each led by one of the visiting 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 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: these workshops are limited to 10 participants each. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due one week prior to workshop\n\n\n\nThese are generative workshops in which participants will draft 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*Please indicate which workshop (Shelley Wong or Ina Cariño) you would like to attend. See workshop descriptions below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 8\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOPS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHELLEY WONG Looking Again: Moving Through Images \n\n\n\nWe enter a poem and discover a speaker\, curious to follow them along a journey. How can we use images in our writing to propel our poems in new directions? Together\, we’ll read and draft poems looking for the essence of image-making and how they can spark a poem\, building through repetition\, place\, and time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINA CARIÑO History is a Haunting \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, participants will explore poems as memory-spaces. Poems are like memories: malleable\, tinged with bias\, and permeated with the ghosts of our own lived experience. Looking through an anti-imperialist lens\, participants will delve into what it means for a personal history to be intertwined with macro-histories—the ghosts of which haunt us\, and ask: If bastard histories crave undoing\, how would (or could) they be different now? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHELLEY WONG is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books)\, winner of the Pamet River Prize and longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award. She is a Kundiman and MacDowell fellow and lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINA CARIÑO is a 2022 Whiting Award winner with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in the American Poetry Review\, The Margins\, Guernica\, Poetry Northwest\, Poetry Magazine\, the Paris Review Daily\, Waxwing\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fellow and is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for FEAST\, just released from Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2021\, Ina was selected as one of four winners of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/saturday-workshop-april-2023/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SW2223-0415-900x300-Both.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230414T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230414T190000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230321T152344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230414T221630Z UID:10000505-1681498800-1681498800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Shelley Wong & Ina Cariño 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\nIn conjunction with our April Sunday Workshop (on a Saturday!)\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome Kundiman poets Shelley Wong and Ina Cariño for Observable Readings. \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\nSHELLEY WONG is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books)\, winner of the Pamet River Prize and longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award. She is a Kundiman and MacDowell fellow and lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINA CARIÑO is a 2022 Whiting Award winner with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in the American Poetry Review\, The Margins\, Guernica\, Poetry Northwest\, Poetry Magazine\, the Paris Review Daily\, Waxwing\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fellow and is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for FEAST\, just released from Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2021\, Ina was selected as one of four winners of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. \n\n\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-2023/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OR2223-0414-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230408T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230408T235900 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230321T170906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T212845Z UID:10000507-1680998340-1680998340@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Saturday Workshop: Registration Due DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our April Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome Kundiman poets Shelley Wong and Ina Cariño for a Sunday Workshop Special Event – on a Saturday! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese two-hour generative workshops will run concurrently\, each led by one of the visiting poets. The workshops will take place on Saturday\, April 15\, 2023. Registrations for the workshops are due by 11:59 p.m. \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: these workshops are limited to 10 participants each. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due one week prior to workshop\n\n\n\nThese are generative workshops in which participants will draft 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*Please indicate which workshop (Shelley Wong or Ina Cariño) you would like to attend. See workshop descriptions below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOPS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHELLEY WONG Looking Again: Moving Through Images \n\n\n\nWe enter a poem and discover a speaker\, curious to follow them along a journey. How can we use images in our writing to propel our poems in new directions? Together\, we’ll read and draft poems looking for the essence of image-making and how they can spark a poem\, building through repetition\, place\, and time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINA CARIÑO History is a Haunting \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, participants will explore poems as memory-spaces. Poems are like memories: malleable\, tinged with bias\, and permeated with the ghosts of our own lived experience. Looking through an anti-imperialist lens\, participants will delve into what it means for a personal history to be intertwined with macro-histories—the ghosts of which haunt us\, and ask: If bastard histories crave undoing\, how would (or could) they be different now? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHELLEY WONG is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books)\, winner of the Pamet River Prize and longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award. She is a Kundiman and MacDowell fellow and lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINA CARIÑO is a 2022 Whiting Award winner with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in the American Poetry Review\, The Margins\, Guernica\, Poetry Northwest\, Poetry Magazine\, the Paris Review Daily\, Waxwing\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fellow and is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for FEAST\, just released from Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2021\, Ina was selected as one of four winners of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/saturday-workshop-registration-due-april-2023/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SW2223-0408-900x300-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230328T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230328T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230228T183335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T162259Z UID:10000503-1680031800-1680031800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Floyd Boykin\, Jr.\, Robert Lowes & Paul Stroble DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFloyd Boykin\, Jr. is a father\, award winning poet\, author\, musician\, a recording artist and performer\, producer\, filmmaker\, youth group organizer and Lupus Awareness Advocate. He is the founder of SpokenVizions Entertainment Group\, L.L.C. and the producer of Project L.I.F.E. He is the author nine books (six poetry\, three self-help). Floyd has opened for a variety of poets and other artists such as The Last Poets\, Gill Scott-Heron\, Dahveed Nelson\, Malik Yusef\, Goapele\, Maya Azucena and Murphy Lee. He has released five studio albums including his most popular release EARTHOLOGY\, which includes a collaboration with Malcolm-Jamal Warner. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Lowes is a writer whose first poetry collection\, An Honest Hunger (Resource Publications)\, was published in 2020. His poems have appeared in journals such as The New Republic\, Southern Poetry Review\, december\, and Tampa Review. He recently has branched out into haiku while still writing poems in traditional European forms and free verse. A former president and board member of Saint Louis Poetry Center\, he coordinated the organization’s high school poetry contest for nine years. When he’s not hunched over a notebook\, he may be playing rhythm guitar at the School of Rock in Kirkwood. Samples of his poetry and journalism can be found at robertlowes.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Stroble teaches at Webster University and Eden Theological Seminary. A native of Vandalia (Fayette County)\, Illinois\, he has written several books\, especially church curriculum. His website is paulstroble.com. His poetry books\, published by Finishing Line Press\, are Dreaming at the Electric Hobo (2015)\, Little River (2017)\, Small Corner of the Stars (2017)\, Backyard Darwin (2019)\, Walking Lorton Bluff (2020)\, Four Mile (2022)\, and Galápagos Joy (2023). URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-march-2023/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/PP2223-0328-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230322T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230322T190000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230303T203742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T204102Z UID:10000504-1679511600-1679511600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Christian Schlegel & Eileen G'Sell DESCRIPTION:Reading from ryman (Schlegel) and Life After Rugby (G’Sell) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Saint Louis Poetry Center for a reading and celebration of new poetry by two poets who write in dialogue with art\, film\, and the ekphrastic tradition. Copies of ryman and Life After Rugby will be available for purchase from Left Bank Books. Cash bar. \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. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristian Schlegel is the author of the poetry collections RYMAN (Ricochet\, 2022) and HONEST JAMES (The Song Cave\, 2015). He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a doctorate in English from Harvard\, teaches English and creative writing at Pierrepont School in Connecticut\, and lives in New Haven. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Fence\, The Baffler\, Oversound\, The Hopkins Review\, Current Affairs\, Hyperallergic\, Reverse Shot\, LARB\, and other outlets. Her first full-length volume of poetry\, Life After Rugby\, was published in 2018 by Gold Wake Press\, and in 2019 she was nominated for the national Rabkin Foundation award in arts journalism. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/schlegel-gsell/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OR2223-Mar22-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230319T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230319T133000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230228T180313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T181252Z UID:10000501-1679232600-1679232600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Andrea Scarpino 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. Learn more >> \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 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: March 12\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\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 works as Executive Director at the Noble Neighbor. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-march-2023/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SW2223-Mar19-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230312T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230312T235900 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230228T181010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T181100Z UID:10000502-1678665540-1678665540@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Andrea Scarpino will take place on March 19\, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \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\nRegistration 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\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 works as Executive Director at the Noble Neighbor. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-march-2023/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SW2223-0312-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230228T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230228T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20221208T220426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T172551Z UID:10000496-1677612600-1677612600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Kenytha Harvery\, Maggie Bell\, & Samuel DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKenytha Harvey is an international speaker\, consultant\, author\, artist\, entrepreneur\, and mentor who has spent the last twenty-one years inspiring men\, women\, and children to live their lives to the fullest. One that is full of love\, kindness\, compassion\, and grace while pursuing the call on their lives with enthusiasm\, passion\, and persistence in spite of all the resistance\, oppression\, obstacles\, and challenges that they may face in this life. She is an East Saint Louis native\, a woman after God’s own heart\, and a lover of His people. Being a part of families who are lifetime learners has influenced her life in a major way. Kenytha is currently pursuing her graduate degree from Washington University in Saint Louis\, where she previously graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Psychological & Brain Sciences\, Certificate in Forensic Psychology\, and Creative Writing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaggie Bell is a writer and attorney who lives in St. Louis\, Missouri. She has primarily practiced criminal law\, including representing wrongfully convicted clients. In the midst of the pandemic\, she discovered a refuge in poetry. Her poems were published in the Fall 2022 Issue of Nine Mile Books & Literary Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathan Sterling\, the poet known as Samuel\, is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a Master’s in Public Administration and Policy Analysis. He is a two-time published poet and the author of the works Archway and Two My Sisters. His writing can be found in the New York Writers Coalition Black Writers Journal as well as the Eastern Iowa Review. Nathan has a long history with writing but recently set his feet on the journey to smear the world with the color of his words. He is a passion filled writer\, wringing words of their last drop of emotion. He creates poems that you can call home\, providing somewhere you can fall apart or fall together whichever suits your soul. Join the journey. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-february-2023/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PP2223-0228-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230223T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230223T190000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230210T223946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T224316Z UID:10000499-1677171600-1677178800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Book Swap 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\, and enjoy great drinks and great conversation. This special evening features: \n\n\n\n\nComplimentary open bar\n\n\n\nLimited-edition SLPC tote bag 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/book-swap-happy-hour-february-2023/ LOCATION:Rockwell Beer Co\, 1320 S Vandeventer Ave\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63110\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Member Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MEM2223-022323-900X300.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230219T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230219T133000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20221208T224215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T173156Z UID:10000498-1676813400-1676813400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Niki Herd 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. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 poems/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 EXTENDED: February 15\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collection The Language of Shedding Skin and co-editor with Meg Day of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master\, considered one of 2019’s “hidden gems” by Ms. Magazine. Herd’s essay “George Floyd and the White Gaze” on the death of Floyd and the pandemic won the 2021 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction and was selected as Salon’s Best of 2020. A two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee\, Herd’s poetry\, essays\, and criticism appear in or are forthcoming from New England Review\, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature\, Copper Nickel\, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day)\, Lit Hub\, The Rumpus\, Obsidian\, Tupelo Quarterly\, The Feminist Wire\, and Split This Rock Poem-of-the-Week\, among other journals. Her poems have been anthologized in Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky\, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!\, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. In 2021\, Herd was awarded the Raymond Plank Fellowship at Ucross. Her work has also been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, the Newberry Library\, Cave Canem\, as well as the DC Commission on the Arts. She has presented lectures and taught workshops at Carlow University\, Community College of Baltimore County\, Writers-in-the-Schools\, and Rutgers University. An Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow\, Herd held a Presidential Fellowship at the University of Houston where she earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing. She currently lives in St. Louis where she is a Visiting Writer in Residence in Poetry at Washington University. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-february-2023/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SW2223-Feb19-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230215T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230215T235900 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20230213T173105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T170654Z UID:10000500-1676505540-1676505540@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:Deadline extended!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sunday Workshop with Niki Herd will take place on February 19\, 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 12 poems/participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\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\nNIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collection The Language of Shedding Skin and co-editor with Meg Day of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master\, considered one of 2019’s “hidden gems” by Ms. Magazine. Herd’s essay “George Floyd and the White Gaze” on the death of Floyd and the pandemic won the 2021 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction and was selected as Salon’s Best of 2020. A two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee\, Herd’s poetry\, essays\, and criticism appear in or are forthcoming from New England Review\, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature\, Copper Nickel\, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day)\, Lit Hub\, The Rumpus\, Obsidian\, Tupelo Quarterly\, The Feminist Wire\, and Split This Rock Poem-of-the-Week\, among other journals. Her poems have been anthologized in Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky\, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!\, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. In 2021\, Herd was awarded the Raymond Plank Fellowship at Ucross. Her work has also been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, the Newberry Library\, Cave Canem\, as well as the DC Commission on the Arts. She has presented lectures and taught workshops at Carlow University\, Community College of Baltimore County\, Writers-in-the-Schools\, and Rutgers University. An Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow\, Herd held a Presidential Fellowship at the University of Houston where she earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing. She currently lives in St. Louis. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SW2223-021523-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230212T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230212T235900 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20221208T221950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T224459Z UID:10000497-1676246340-1676246340@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Niki Herd will take place on February 19\, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \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 poems/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\nNIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collection The Language of Shedding Skin and co-editor with Meg Day of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master\, considered one of 2019’s “hidden gems” by Ms. Magazine. Herd’s essay “George Floyd and the White Gaze” on the death of Floyd and the pandemic won the 2021 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction and was selected as Salon’s Best of 2020. A two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee\, Herd’s poetry\, essays\, and criticism appear in or are forthcoming from New England Review\, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature\, Copper Nickel\, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day)\, Lit Hub\, The Rumpus\, Obsidian\, Tupelo Quarterly\, The Feminist Wire\, and Split This Rock Poem-of-the-Week\, among other journals. Her poems have been anthologized in Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky\, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!\, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. In 2021\, Herd was awarded the Raymond Plank Fellowship at Ucross. Her work has also been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, the Newberry Library\, Cave Canem\, as well as the DC Commission on the Arts. She has presented lectures and taught workshops at Carlow University\, Community College of Baltimore County\, Writers-in-the-Schools\, and Rutgers University. An Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow\, Herd held a Presidential Fellowship at the University of Houston where she earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing. She currently lives in St. Louis where she is a Visiting Writer in Residence in Poetry at Washington University. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-february-2023/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SW2223-Feb12-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230124T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230124T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20221208T214825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230125T001734Z UID:10000495-1674588600-1674588600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Marie Chewe-Elliott & Jet McDonald DESCRIPTION:This is a rescheduled event from November 2022. The reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \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\nMarie Chewe-Elliott is a writer\, speaker\, and poet in north St. Louis County. She is the author of three books of poetry and a children’s book. Her poems have been published in The St. Louis Anthology\, SO Magazine\, UMSL’s Litmag\, and among winning selections in the 2019 Arts Rolla Writing Competition and Arts in Transit’s 2019 Metro Lines Contest. In 2012\, she co-founded North County Writing & Arts Network. Marie’s love of words guided her to a career of more than 30 years in various facets of communications\, including newspaper reporter\, nonprofit and government communications\, and adjunct lecturer. She earned degrees from the University of Mississippi and Webster University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJet McDonald (they/them) received their Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis\, where they also served as Poet Laureate. They now work as an organizational facilitator for the St. Louis Queer+ Support Helpline (SQSH – affectionately pronounced “squish”) and are pursuing a Master of Social Work degree at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. They hope to weave creativity and mental health services into one cohesive career. Jet’s work has appeared in Amygdala\, Litmag\, Eunoia Review\, and Typehouse Literary Magazine\, where their poem was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2017. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-january-2023/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PP2223-Jan24-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230115T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230115T133000 DTSTAMP:20260504T071435 CREATED:20221208T204920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T224307Z UID:10000494-1673789400-1673789400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Travis Mossotti 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. Learn more >> \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 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: January 8\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRAVIS MOSSOTTI‘s previous collections are About the Dead\, Field Study\, and Narcissus Americana. His fourth collection\, Racecar Jesus\, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in 2023/24 with the Black Spring Press Group in the UK. Mossotti’s fifth collection\, Apocryphal Genesis\, won the Alma Book Award and is forthcoming with Saturnalia Books in 2024. He currently serves as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-january-2023/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SW2223-Jan15-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR