BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Saint Louis Poetry Center - ECPv6.15.18//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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T190000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20241010T165406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T172935Z UID:10000559-1729105200-1729105200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Ross Gay DESCRIPTION:Reading from The Book of (More) Delights and Inciting Joy: Essays\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a celebration with award-winning and best-selling author Ross Gay for the paperback releases of The Book of (More) Delights and Inciting Joy.  We are delighted to welcome Ross Gay back to St. Louis for a discussion and book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS \n\n\n\nIn this second intimate collection of short\, lyrical\, genre-defying essays\, again written daily over a year\, one of America’s most original and observant voices celebrates the ordinary\, helping us see our extraordinary world anew. Among Ross Gay’s funny\, poetic\, philosophical delights: bonding with a pipsqueak of a puppy\, observing how his mother bakes eighteen kinds of cookies before her grandchildren arrive\, noticing the tenderness he feels when he sees an adult wearing braces\, and the recognition that for him the preamble is often more delightful than the thing itself: “Putting on your socks and tying up your shoes\, and\, if you’re the type\, filling up your water bottle and doing some light stretching\, but skipping the walk entirely.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINCITING JOY \n\n\n\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet and bestselling author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other\, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection and expand it. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space\, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? Full of energy\, curiosity\, and compassion\, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSS GAY is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry\, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022\, and his newest collection\, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-ross-gay/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LBB2425-1016-900x300-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241022T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241022T193000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20241010T170744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T170746Z UID:10000561-1729625400-1729625400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Myrtie Reilly & Matthew Freeman DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo close out our 2024 readings focusing on community\, our friends at Re:Born (a monthly poetry reading at the Fortune Teller Bar) will be joining us! Matthew Freeman will read his own poems and his co-host Myrtie Reilly will read the work of other poets before discussing the process of crafting a regular poetry event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMyrtie Reilly co-curates and hosts RE:BORN\, a monthly poetry reading and open mic event (@reborn.poetry.stl). By day\, she passionately serves as a teacher and child advocate. Myrtie proudly calls St. Louis City home and embraces friendship with all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Freeman is the author of seven books of poems\, most recently I Think I’d Rather Roar (Cerasus Poetry). He holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-St Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-october-2024/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PP2425-1022-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T235900 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20241011T143610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241019T152805Z UID:10000565-1729727940-1729727940@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Jason Vasser-Elong will take place on October 27\, 2024. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due October 23\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJASON VASSER-ELONG is a professor of English and African American Studies in the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL)\, where he recently earned a Doctorate of Education with a focus in Educational Practice. He is an applied – anthropologist with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology with a concentration in African Diaspora studies. He is the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press\, 2018)\, a collection of poetry that analyzes identity in a post-colonial context. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-october-2024/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SW2425-1020-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241024T180000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20241010T174003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T184734Z UID:10000563-1729792800-1729792800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:A Night of Poetry featuring JoAnna Novak\, Eileen G'Sell & Safa Khatib DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we welcome three fantastic local poets JoAnna Novak\, Eileen G’Sell\, and Safa Khatib to share their new work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDOMESTIREXIA: POEMSby JoAnna Novak \n\n\n\nHome can be a space of both resistance and discomfort that one desires or takes pleasure in enjoying. Rote notions of home and the domestic are reimagined in these poems as estranging\, excessive\, and populated by unknowable characters. Exploring themes of family\, sacrifice\, disease\, death\, money\, cooking\, romance\, sex\, art\, and the visceral qualities of the everyday\, the poems twist themselves into binds for the reader to undo or surrender to. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFRANCOFILAMENTSby Eileen G’Sell \n\n\n\nVacillating between prose and verse\, Francofilaments presents a varied sojourn through a woman’s trials and tribulations as reimagined\, and filtered through\, French culture and film. Several poems are based on\, or excerpt from\, interviews G’Sell conducted with French or French-speaking actors and filmmakers—including Juliette Binoche\, Celine Sciamma\, and Isabelle Huppert—while others excerpt from an extensive list of reviews and essays published on Francophone cinema. In investigating Francophilia\, G’Sell likewise plumbs the depths of national\, gendered\, and racial identity. While her background as a critic informs many of these poems\, the collection is also based in part on her experience as a single woman in her thirties—chronicling romantic (mis)adventures as well as orbiting more serious themes around sexuality\, mortality\, and pregnancy loss. This volume is a cinematic excavation of interiority—the author’s\, but also that which we see and hear onscreen.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoAnna Novak‘s memoir Contradiction Days was published by Catapult in July 2023. Her short story collection Meaningful Work won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is the author of the novel I Must Have You and three books of poetry: New Life; Abeyance\, North America; and Noirmania. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and other publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Poetry\, Oversound\, Hyperallergic\, The Baffler\, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2023\, she received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism. Her second volume of poetry\, Francofilaments\, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in late 2024; in 2025\, her first nonfiction book\, Lipstick\, will be published as part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSafa Khatib is a writer and teacher living in St. Louis. She is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection A Dress of Locusts (Bloomsbury 2025). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-joanna-novak-eileen-gsell-safa-khatib/ LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LBB2425-1024-900x300-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241027T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241027T133000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20241010T190311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241019T152829Z UID:10000567-1730035800-1730035800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Jason Vasser-Elong DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due October 23\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: October 23\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJASON VASSER-ELONG is a professor of English and African American Studies in the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL)\, where he recently earned a Doctorate of Education with a focus in Educational Practice. He is an applied – anthropologist with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology with a concentration in African Diaspora studies. He is the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press\, 2018)\, a collection of poetry that analyzes identity in a post-colonial context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-october-2024/ 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/2024/10/SW2425-1027-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241113T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241113T235900 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20241104T174631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T233856Z UID:10000571-1731542340-1731542340@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our November Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Eduardo C. Corral for the November Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be a generative workshop focused on revision. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, November 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\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRethinking Revision: Five Strategies to Charge Language and Form \n\n\n\nPlease bring two poems you would like to revise to workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEDUARDO C. CORRAL is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine and Slow Lightning\, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-november-2024/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SW2425-1113-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241117T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241117T133000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20241104T173624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T175019Z UID:10000570-1731850200-1731850200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Eduardo C. Corral 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\nIn conjunction with our November Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Eduardo C. Corral for the November Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be a generative workshop focused on revision. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, November 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: November 13\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRethinking Revision: Five Strategies to Charge Language and Form \n\n\n\nPlease bring two poems you would like to revise to workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEDUARDO C. CORRAL is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine and Slow Lightning\, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-november-2024/ 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/2024/11/SW2425-1117-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T190000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20241028T193804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T183017Z UID:10000568-1731956400-1731956400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Eduardo C. Corral & Steven D. Schroeder DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Eduardo C. Corral and Steven D. Schroeder 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\nEDUARDO C. CORRAL is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine and Slow Lightning\, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTEVEN D. SCHROEDER is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently Wikipedia Apocalyptica. His second\, The Royal Nonesuch\, won the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University. His poetry is available from New England Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Copper Nickel\, The Rumpus\, and Diagram\, and has also been featured in city parks\, public transportation\, and business waiting rooms. He edits the online poetry journal $ (www.poetrycurrency.com) \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-2024/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OR2425-1118-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241119T190000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20241104T185438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T185439Z UID:10000572-1732042800-1732042800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka DESCRIPTION:Reading from A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 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\nJoin us as we welcome Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka\, translators for A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi. This is the first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English. Join award winning poet\, translator\, and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis Mary Jo Bang with professor and poet Yuki Tanaka for their collaborative translation. \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\nA KISS FOR THE ABSOLUTE: SELECTED POEMS OF SHUZO TAKIGUCHI \n\n\n\nThe first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English \n\n\n\nIn 1923\, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake\, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later\, he was hit by a second earthquake–French Surrealism. Takiguchi (1903-1979) began to write surrealist poems\, translate surrealist writers\, curate exhibitions of surrealist art\, write art criticism\, and\, later\, paint\, helping introduce Surrealism to Japan. He eventually became a major Japanese artistic and cultural figure whose collected works number fourteen volumes. In A Kiss for the Absolute\, Mary Jo Bang\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and her fellow poet and translator Yuki Tanaka present the first collection in English of Takiguchi’s ingenious\, playful\, and erotic poems\, complete with an introduction and the original Japanese texts on facing pages. Takiguchi’s obvious interest in style is perfectly wed to his daredevil rhetorical antics. His poems read as if they could have been written today\, yet they are so original that they couldn’t have been written by anyone else. Bang and Tanaka’s skillful\, colloquial translations offer English readers a long-overdue introduction to this important poet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS & TRANSLATORS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG is the author of nine books of poems—including Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book\, A Film in Which I Play Everyone (Graywolf Press 2023)\, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award\, a PEN Voelcker Award\, and the Heartland Booksellers Award. She’s published translations of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, and Purgatorio. Her translation of Paradiso is forthcoming in July 2025. She is also the translator of Colonies of Paradise: Poems by Matthias Göritz\, and co-translator\, with Yuki Tanaka\, of A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi—forthcoming from Princeton University Press in November 2024. She’s been the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. She is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Yamaguchi\, Japan\, YUKI TANAKA is the author of a debut poetry collection\, Chronicle of Drifting\, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in April 2025. His poems have appeared in The Nation\, The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in English from Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in Tokyo and teaches at Hosei University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-mary-jo-bang-yuki-tanaka/ LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/LBB2425-1119-900x300-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T235900 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250114T224842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T224843Z UID:10000574-1737590340-1737590340@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:To kick off 2025\, the Sunday Workshop with Shane Seely will take place on January 26\, 2025. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Wednesday\, January 22\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\nSHANE SEELY directs the MFA program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poems have appeared in journals nationwide\, including The Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Notre Dame Review\, and Antioch Review\, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He is the author of three previous books of poetry\, The First Echo (LSU Press\, 2019)\, The Surface of the Lit World (Ohio University Press\, 2015 – Winner of the Hollis Summer Poetry Prize) and The Snowbound House (Anhinga Press\, 2008 – Winner of the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry). URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-january-2025/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SW2425-0122-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250126T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250126T133000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250114T230014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T230016Z UID:10000575-1737898200-1737898200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Shane Seely DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due January 22\, 2025\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 22\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHANE SEELY directs the MFA program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poems have appeared in journals nationwide\, including The Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Notre Dame Review\, and Antioch Review\, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He is the author of three previous books of poetry\, The First Echo (LSU Press\, 2019)\, The Surface of the Lit World (Ohio University Press\, 2015 – Winner of the Hollis Summer Poetry Prize) and The Snowbound House (Anhinga Press\, 2008 – Winner of the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-january-2025/ 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/2025/01/SW2425-0126-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250128T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250128T193000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250114T214822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250124T214906Z UID:10000573-1738092600-1738092600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jennifer Whalen & Sebastián Páramo 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\nWe kick off 2025 with poets Jennifer Whalen & Sebastián Páramo! \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\nJennifer Whalen (she/her) is a poet & educator from the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati\, Ohio area. She is the author of the poetry collection Eveningful\, which was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her poems can be found in Gulf Coast\, Denver Quarterly\, Fourteen Hills\, Sixth Finch\, Grist\, The Boiler\, & elsewhere. She previously served as writer-in-residence at Texas State University’s Clark House & currently teaches English at the University of Illinois Springfield. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebastián Páramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books\, 2023) and was named a finalist for the 2023 Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. His poems have recently appeared in AGNI\, Poetry Northwest\, Prairie Schooner\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. His work has received fellowships and support from the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at UT-Austin\, CantoMundo\, among others. He is the founding editor of The Boiler and is a Lecturer at Southern Methodist University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-january-2025/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PP2425-0128-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250211T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250211T235900 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250203T214941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T215111Z UID:10000578-1739318340-1739318340@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Jacqui Germain and Alison C. Rollins for the February Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese two-hour 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\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 12 participants each. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Tuesday\, February 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* 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.*Please indicate which workshop (Jacqui Germain or Alison C. Rollins) you would like to attend. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACQUI GERMAIN is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis\, Missouri. Her first full-length poetry collection\, Bittering the Wound\, was selected by Douglas Kearney for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and was awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. She’s the recipient of a journalism fellowship from the Economic Security Project and Teen Vogue\, and has written for The Nation\, The New York Times\, Teen Vogue\, The Guardian\, In These Times Magazine\, and more. Germain is also the recipient of poetry fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission\, Jack Jones Literary Arts\, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop\, and more. Her first poetry chapbook\, When the Ghosts Come Ashore\, was published by Button Poetry in 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALISON C. ROLLINS was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021\, her essay “Dispatch from the Racial Mountain” was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work\, across genres\, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Iowa Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow\, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018\, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and in 2020\, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and the debut poetry collection\, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press\, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-february-2025/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SW2425-0211-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250216T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250216T133000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250203T213719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T232234Z UID:10000577-1739712600-1739712600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Jacqui Germain & Alison C. Rollins DESCRIPTION:These workshops will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Jacqui Germain and Alison C. Rollins for the February Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese two-hour 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 12 participants each. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due February 11\, 2025\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 indicate which workshop (Jacqui Germain or Alison C. Rollins) you would like to attend.*Please attach poem as a 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\nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 11\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACQUI GERMAIN is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis\, Missouri. Her first full-length poetry collection\, Bittering the Wound\, was selected by Douglas Kearney for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and was awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. She’s the recipient of a journalism fellowship from the Economic Security Project and Teen Vogue\, and has written for The Nation\, The New York Times\, Teen Vogue\, The Guardian\, In These Times Magazine\, and more. Germain is also the recipient of poetry fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission\, Jack Jones Literary Arts\, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop\, and more. Her first poetry chapbook\, When the Ghosts Come Ashore\, was published by Button Poetry in 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALISON C. ROLLINS was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021\, her essay “Dispatch from the Racial Mountain” was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work\, across genres\, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Iowa Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow\, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018\, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and in 2020\, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and the debut poetry collection\, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press\, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-february-2025/ 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/2025/02/OR2425-0217-900x300-2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250217T190000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250203T183056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250217T233756Z UID:10000576-1739818800-1739818800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Jacqui Germain & Alison C. Rollins DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Jacqui Germain and Alison C. Rollins 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\nJACQUI GERMAIN is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis\, Missouri. Her first full-length poetry collection\, Bittering the Wound\, was selected by Douglas Kearney for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and was awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. She’s the recipient of a journalism fellowship from the Economic Security Project and Teen Vogue\, and has written for The Nation\, The New York Times\, Teen Vogue\, The Guardian\, In These Times Magazine\, and more. Germain is also the recipient of poetry fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission\, Jack Jones Literary Arts\, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop\, and more. Her first poetry chapbook\, When the Ghosts Come Ashore\, was published by Button Poetry in 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALISON C. ROLLINS was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021\, her essay “Dispatch from the Racial Mountain” was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work\, across genres\, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Iowa Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow\, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018\, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and in 2020\, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and the debut poetry collection\, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press\, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \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-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/OR2425-0217-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250302T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250302T163000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250227T215916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T215918Z UID:10000584-1740933000-1740933000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Oksana Maksymchuk DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Lauris Veips\, a poet and translator from Latvia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 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\nJoin us for a reading and conversation with Oksana Maksymchuk\, an award-winning bilingual Ukrainian American poet\, scholar\, and translator.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHer debut English-language poetry collection Still City: Diary of an Invasion (Pittsburgh University Press/Carcanet) offers an immersive chronicle of war\, originating in the months leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaksymchuk will be in conversation with Lauris Veips\, a poet and translator from Latvia. \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\nSTILL CITY: DIARY OF AN INVASION \n\n\n\nNamed as One of Financial Times‘s Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024\, the poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality\, temporality\, mortality\, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet’s homeland\, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle\, a chorus\, and a collage\, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality\, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources\, including social media posts\, the news reports\, witness accounts\, recorded oral histories\, photographs\, drone video footage\, intercepted communication\, and official documents\, making sense of the transformations that war effects in individuals\, families\, and communities. Now ecstatic\, now cathartic\, these poems shine a light on survival\, mourning\, and hope through moments of terror and awe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOKSANA MAKSYMCHUK is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet\, scholar\, and translator. She is the author of poetry collections Xenia and Lovy in the Ukrainian. She coedited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine\, an anthology of contemporary poetry\, and has published a few single-author volumes of translations. Born and raised in Lviv\, Ukraine\, she has also lived in Chicago\, Philadelphia\, Budapest\, Berlin\, Warsaw\, and Fayetteville\, Arkansas. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLAURIS VEIPS is a poet and translator from Latvia. His debut poetry collection\, Interesting Days\, was nominated for the Annual Latvian Literature Award in 2021. His translations into Latvian include works by Archilochus\, Anne Carson\, John Donne\, and the evening’s guest Oksana Maksymchuk. Lauris is a 2nd-year PhD student in the Comparative Literature and Thought program at Washington 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\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-oksana-maksymchuk/ LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/LBB2425-0302-900x300-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250303T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250303T190000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250227T225318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T225350Z UID:10000585-1741028400-1741028400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry and Conflict: Pádraig Ó Tuama DESCRIPTION:a public lecture presented by WashU & the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Emerson Auditorium in Knight Hall at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a public lecture with Pádraig Ó Tuama\, poet and theologian whose work centers around themes of language\, power\, conflict\, and religion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by WashU & the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nEmerson Auditorium offers open seating\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nReception with speaker immediately following his talk\n\n\n\nRSVP / reservation is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP / RESERVATION INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets are not required\n\n\n\nSeating will be “first come\, first served”\n\n\n\nRegistration does not guarantee a seat\n\n\n\nPlease register at rap@wustl.edu or 314-935-9345\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE PUBLIC LECTURE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOETRY AND CONFLICT \n\n\n\nPoetry is an art that has always concerned itself with the questions of life: what’s growing\, what’s not\, what’s thriving\, what’s not\, what’s being stifled\, what’s being fed. The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics is delighted to host Pádraig Ó Tuama as he explores dynamics of conflict\, language\, rhyme\, description\, and resolution for this engaging evening at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA is a poet\, theologian\, conflict resolution mediator\, and the author of Poetry Unbound: 44 Poems On Being Together (2025)\, Kitchen Hymns (2025)\, Being Here: Prayers for Curiosity\, Justice\, and Love (2024)\, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (2022)\, Feed the Beast (2022)\, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community (2017)\, In the Shelter (2015)\, Sorry for your Troubles (2013)\, and Readings from the Books of Exile (2012)\, which was longlisted for the 2013 Polari First Book Prize. \n\n\n\nA freelance artist\, one of Ó Tuama’s projects is poet in residence with the Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Center at Columbia University. Pádraig Ó Tuama holds a BA Div validated by the Pontifical College of Maynooth\, an MTh from Queen’s University Belfast and recently received a PhD in Theology through Creative Practice at the University of Glasgow exploring poetry\, Irishness\, and religion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARKING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisitor parking is available on the fourth level of Millbrook Garage or in the Danforth University Center (DUC) underground garage. Pull a ticket at the gate when you enter. Parking is free in yellow spaces (you will be ticketed if in a red space) weekdays between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. and on weekends. For more information on parking\, visit parking.wustl.edu/parking/visitor. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-and-conflict-padraig-o-tuama/ LOCATION:Emerson Auditorium\, Knight Hall – Washington University\, 1194 Throop Dr\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63130\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WASHU2425-0303-900x300-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics":MAILTO:rap@wustl.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T235900 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250221T233906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T233937Z UID:10000582-1741823940-1741823940@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due DESCRIPTION:Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Allison Funk for the March Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop focused on Virginia Woolf’s idea of “moments of being.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMoments of Being \n\n\n\nVirginia Woolf writes in her autobiographical “Sketch of the Past” of moments of being—moments of acute awareness that stand out from what she calls the “cotton wool” of daily living. For Woolf\, such exceptional instances often involve an image that surfaces unexpectedly and with great force. In this generative poetry workshop\, participants will talk about Virginia Woolf’s idea before they identify a personal “moment of being” they will start to put into words. \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\, March 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: March 12\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALLISON FUNK is the author of six books of poems and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received further honors from the Poetry Society of America and the arts councils of Illinois and Delaware. Her most recent book of poems is The Visible Woman (Parlor Press\, 2021). Individual poems have appeared in Poetry\, Paris Review\, Copper Nickel\, Image\, Pleiades\, The Best American Poetry and elsewhere. She has been a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, Ragdale\, the Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat (Scotland)\, and the Dora Maar House (France). For nearly 30 years she taught Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 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 at High Low. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-march-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SW2425-0312-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250316T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250316T133000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250221T231821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T232055Z UID:10000581-1742131800-1742131800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Allison Funk 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\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Allison Funk for the March Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop focused on Virginia Woolf’s idea of “moments of being.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMoments of Being \n\n\n\nVirginia Woolf writes in her autobiographical “Sketch of the Past” of moments of being—moments of acute awareness that stand out from what she calls the “cotton wool” of daily living. For Woolf\, such exceptional instances often involve an image that surfaces unexpectedly and with great force. In this generative poetry workshop\, participants will talk about Virginia Woolf’s idea before they identify a personal “moment of being” they will start to put into words. \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\, March 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: March 12\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALLISON FUNK is the author of six books of poems and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received further honors from the Poetry Society of America and the arts councils of Illinois and Delaware. Her most recent book of poems is The Visible Woman (Parlor Press\, 2021). Individual poems have appeared in Poetry\, Paris Review\, Copper Nickel\, Image\, Pleiades\, The Best American Poetry and elsewhere. She has been a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, Ragdale\, the Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat (Scotland)\, and the Dora Maar House (France). For nearly 30 years she taught Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\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 Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-march-2025/ 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/2025/02/SW2425-03-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250325T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250325T193000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250222T000407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T234931Z UID:10000583-1742931000-1742931000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Scott Berzon & Michael Pfeifer 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\nScott Berzon earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of the Frank Vincent Memorial Prize\, the Meader Family Award\, and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship. Scott’s creative work has appeared in a variety of publications including Acorn\, Cream City Review\, Humana Obscura\, Poetry Midwest\, Quarter After Eight\, Southern Indiana Review\, and others. Scott lives with his family in St. Louis and works in Jewish communal settings. He serves as a poetry editor for december magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Pfeifer earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and returned to earn an M.A. in English\, studying poetry with Larry Levis. He earned an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop where he studied with Marvin Bell\, Henry Carlile\, Donald Justice and Sandra McPherson. He has published in numerous literary journals and received the 1980 St. Louis Poetry Center Chancellor’s Award\, judged by Howard Nemerov\, and the 1987 Poet Lore Ratner-Ferber Award. He stopped submitting poems for publication in 1998\, but continued writing. He has recently started to again submit work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-march-2025/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PP2425-0326-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T190000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250305T213223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T231600Z UID:10000586-1743620400-1743620400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Robert Fitterman & Safa Khatib DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo inaugurate our National Poetry Month series of events\, join us for a reading with Robert Fitterman and Safa Khatib\, two poets with ties to Saint Louis whose work innovates across histories\, geographies\, and languages.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with Saint Louis University Department of English and Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCREVE COEUR \n\n\n\nRobert Fitterman’s sixteenth and most ambitious book transposes William Carlos Williams’s postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth-century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape. \n\n\n\nMirroring Paterson’s structure page-for-page\, Fitterman translates Williams’s patchwork of local news stories\, personal letters\, and found historical documents into the landscapes and mythologies of his hometown\, revisiting many of the horrific events of St. Louis and its environs on the way—the East St. Louis massacre\, the demolition of social housing projects\, military chemical testing in the inner city during the Cold War\, and more. Through a weave of verse\, archival documents\, and found language\, Creve Coeur entangles suburban sprawl with the racial violence at the root of American urbanization. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA DRESS OF LOCUSTS \n\n\n\nWoven from threads of Aramaic\, Spanish\, Ancient Greek\, Sumerian and Arabic\, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back and forth to one another. Here\, Safa Khatib journeys across the possibilities of language and self\, asking us to dwell in the thresholds between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROBERT FITTERMAN is the author of 16 books of poetry. His most recent book\, Creve Coeur\, is a long poem recently published with Winter Editions (2024). Other titles include: This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, No\, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself. (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, Nevermind (Wonder Books) and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books). He has collaborated with several visual artists\, including Serkan Ozkaya\, Nayland Blake\, Sabine Herrmann\, Natalie Czech\, Tim Davis\, and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective Collective Task www.collectivetask.org. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSAFA KHATIB is a poet\, translator\, teacher and daughter of South Indian immigrants. She is the author of the forthcoming collection A Dress of Locusts (Bloomsbury 2025). Her current projects include a book of collages provisionally titled return service and “smoke\,” a text written in collaboration with choreographer Cecil Slaughter. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals\, including Words Without Borders\, Baffler\, Kenyon Review and White Review. She is the recipient of support from the US Fulbright Program and the Stadler Center for Poetry\, among other institutions. She is currently a PhD student in the Track for International Writers in the department of Comparative Literature at Washington University in St Louis\, Missouri. \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\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/robert-fitterman-safa-khatib/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SLU2425-0402-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T235900 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250321T174548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T202638Z UID:10000589-1744243140-1744243140@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our April Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Rosalie Moffett for the April Sunday 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\, April 9\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 9\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSALIE MOFFETT is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, Nervous System (Ecco\, 2019)\, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden (OSU Press\, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, POETRY Magazine\, New England Review\, and Kenyon Review\, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana\, and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 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 at High Low. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-april-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SW2425-0409-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250413T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250413T133000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250321T173537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T202224Z UID:10000588-1744551000-1744551000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Rosalie Moffett 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\nIn conjunction with our April Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Rosalie Moffett for the April Sunday 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\, April 9\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 9\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSALIE MOFFETT is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, Nervous System (Ecco\, 2019)\, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden (OSU Press\, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, POETRY Magazine\, New England Review\, and Kenyon Review\, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana\, and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\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 Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-april-2025/ 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/2025/03/SW2425-0413-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250414T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250414T190000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250321T172942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T172943Z UID:10000587-1744657200-1744657200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: erica lewis & Rosalie Moffett DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets erica lewis and Rosalie Moffett for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nerica lewis lives in San Francisco. Her books include the precipice of jupiter (2009\, with artist Mark Stephen Finein)\, camera obscura (2010\, with artist Mark Stephen Finein)\, murmur in the inventory (2013); and the box set trilogy: daryl hall is my boyfriend (2015)\, mary wants to be a superwoman (2017)\, mahogany (2023). She is currently writing a novel inspired by the murder of her maternal grandmother. She was born in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSALIE MOFFETT is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, Nervous System (Ecco\, 2019)\, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden (OSU Press\, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, POETRY Magazine\, New England Review\, and Kenyon Review\, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana\, and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. \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-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/OR2425-0417-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250422T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250422T193000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250321T195705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T230014Z UID:10000590-1745350200-1745350200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Andrea Scarpino & Eric Doise DESCRIPTION:Reading from Chamber after Chamber in a celebration of Saara Myrene Raappana\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaara Myrene Raappana’s poetry is haunting\, beautiful\, and rich with Lake Superior landscapes. It bears witness to both the beauty and violence of rurality and the United States with linguistic whimsy and structural inventiveness. Her most recent book\, Chamber after Chamber\, won the 2023 Juniper Prize for Poetry and is a meditation on the word “heart” and its many meanings. Thoughtful and daring poetry\, Chamber after Chamber was published just days after Saara’s death at age 48. Tonight\, we gather to celebrate her poetry and her writing life in a reading and conversation with Saara’s husband Eric Doise and her friend Andrea Scarpino. \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\nAndrea Scarpino has published the poetry collections Once Upon Wing Lake\, What the Willow Said as it Fell\, and Once\, Then\, and the co-edited anthology Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice. She received a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University\, and an MFA from The Ohio State University. She is also co-editor of Nine Mile Magazine and served as Poet Laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 2015-2017. She teaches at St Louis University High School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Doise is an associate professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University. He has published articles and chapters in several academic journals and anthologies\, including The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma. He earned his PhD from the University of Florida. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-april-2025/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PP2425-0422-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250508T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250508T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250507T211135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250508T220241Z UID:10000591-1746727200-1746734400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Outside LitMag Issue 9 Release DESCRIPTION:The event will be held in-person at High Low and also streamed live to this event page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMade for and by Saint Louis Public School high school students\, Outside Literary Magazine is thrilled to release Issue 9. This special event will celebrate the talented young artists who have worked hard to make this magazine possible. Students will come together to share their work with the wider community. Many of the contributors will be performing their pieces for the first time! Copies of Issue 9 will be available for purchase at the event. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPECIAL THANKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutside Literary Magazine would not be possible without the tireless efforts of the partnering schools and classroom teachers. Thank you! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Sponsor:Margaret SchuhTeacher:Kelly Terry (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Sponsors:Chandra AlfordNicole HalamanTeacher:John Tevlin (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nTeachers:Colette Morton (ELA)Logan Allgood (ELA)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUPPORTERS URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/outside-litmag-issue-9-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/2025/05/Eventcalendar-900-x-300-px.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250516T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250516T183000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250516T191119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T224226Z UID:10000592-1747420200-1747420200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:EVENT CANCELED - 2025 SLPC Contests Award Ceremony DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLATION NOTICE:\n\n\n\nDue to the severe weather and its impact on road conditions and safety\, this event has been canceled. Please watch for a reschedule date to be announced. Stay safe! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be held in-person at High Low and also streamed live to this event page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center celebrates the winners of the 2025 poetry contests\, including the Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest for High School Students and the James H. Nash Poetry Contest. \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPECIAL THANKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Hopkins Contest would not be possible without the efforts and support of volunteer contest coordinator and local poet Emily Koehn. Thank you! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Nash Contest would not be possible without the efforts and support of volunteer contest coordinator and local poet Ted Mathys. Thank you! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd special thanks to our spring 2025 student intern Ezra Harris (Metro Academic and Classical High School) for supporting both contests! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 HOPKINS CONTEST WINNERS & HONORABLE MENTIONS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected by 2025 contest judge Niki Herd \n\n\n\n\n\nFIRST PLACEScarlet Brothers\, Nerinx Hall High SchoolMeanwhile on Earth \n\n\n\nSECOND PLACEIsabelle Cox-Garleanu\, MICDSTo Believe \n\n\n\nTHIRD PLACELucy Divis\, Metro Academic & Classical High SchoolAlphabet Homily \n\n\n\n\n\nHONORABLE MENTIONSIsabelle Cox-Garleanu\, MICDSromanian rhapsody \n\n\n\nScarlet Brothers\, Nerinx Hall High SchoolImagine I Make it Out Alive \n\n\n\nBera Ozkaya\, Gateway Science AcademyFishermen at Sea \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 NASH CONTEST WINNER & FINALIST\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected by 2025 contest judge Daniel Borzutzky \n\n\n\n\n\nFIRST PLACEJill MceldowneyParadise Woods \n\n\n\n\n\nFINALISTOliverdesertification poemTime Magazine: URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/2025-slpc-contests-award-ceremony/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HOP-NASH2324-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250602T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250602T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250529T214446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T183224Z UID:10000593-1748887200-1748894400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Saint Louis Poet Laureate Coronation Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Saint Louis Board of Aldermen and the Poet Laureate Task Force\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be held in-person at the City Hall Rotunda. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPacia Elaine Anderson was officially appointed and sworn in as the fourth Poet Laureate for the City of St.Louis. The Saint Louis Poet Laureate will promote the art of poetry and encourage literacy and learning throughout the St. Louis region. Pacia collaborates as a poet\, visual and teaching artist\, creative consultant\, arts administrator\, and community caregiver with numerous groups and individuals\, from large institutions to small organizations\, both locally and nationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Being named the fourth Poet Laureate of the city of St. Louis is a tremendous honor\,” Anderson said. “I look forward to continuing the work of our poetic and cultural forbearers while amplifying new ideas and ways of engaging with the art form and using poetry as a method of gathering us together in the spirit of collectivism that provides the loving connection that moves humanity forward.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the press release >>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT DETAILS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDrum call with NGOMA\n\n\n\nWords from Mrs. Adelia Parker-Castro\, Lyah LeFlore-Ituen\, Jane Ellen Ibur\, Dr. Eugene B. Redmond & MK Sadiq\n\n\n\nFood from Parker’s Table\n\n\n\nFree parking in the Clark-side lot\n\n\n\nAll ages\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPacia Elaine Anderson is a visual\, spoken\, and teaching word artist who currently serves as the Program Lead of the Regional Arts Commission’s Community Arts Training Institute\, Program Coordinator for Good Journey Development Foundation\, and as a teaching artist with a host of regional organizations. She is the Missouri-St. Louis City Regional Coordinator for Poetry Out Loud\, the NEA’s national recitation competition. The St. Louis Visionary Awards named Pacia the Community Impact Artist for 2020-2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor several years Pacia served as assistant to inaugural St. Louis Poet Laureate Dr. Michael Castro. She is an Urban Bush Women SLI and a New Leaders Council-St. Louis alumnus\, and a founding member of the youth-based art camp Cherokee Street Reach. She also served as the past Liaison for the Great Rivers Greenway Artists of Color Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPacia has served as a consulting artist and national workshop facilitator with Americans for the Arts’ Artists at the Community Development Table initiative and serves on the boards of Saint Louis Poetry Center\, Volunteer Lawyers and Accounts for the Arts\, and The St. Louis Art Place Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poet-laureate-coronation-ceremony/ LOCATION:City of St. Louis – City Hall\, 1200 Market Street\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63103-2826\, United States CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/STLPL2425-0602-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250724T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250724T190000 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250722T193142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250722T193144Z UID:10000596-1753383600-1753383600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:SLCL Presents: Mary Jo Bang DESCRIPTION:in conversation with poet Dana Levin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 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 National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet\, Mary Jo Bang\, sharing Paradiso\, the conclusion of her celebrated translation of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranslating The Divine Comedy was an ambitious twenty-year undertaking for Bang. There have been very few translations of the entire work by women\, and no other translation has made the trilogy quite as readable and fun by bringing Dante into a twenty-first century vernacular while remaining faithful to the epic narrative of the trilogy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBang will be in conversation with poet Dana Levin. \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\nPARADISO \n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang’s translation of Paradiso completes her groundbreaking new version of Dante’s masterpiece\, begun with Inferno and continued with Purgatorio. In Paradiso\, Dante has been purified by his climb up the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory\, and now\, led by the luminous Beatrice\, he begins his ascent through the nine celestial spheres of heaven toward the Empyrean\, the mind of God. Along the way\, we meet the souls of the blessed—those at various proximities to God\, but all existing within the bliss of heaven’s perfect order. Philosophically rich\, spiritually resonant\, Paradiso is a reckoning with justice and morality from a time of ethical questioning and political division much like our own. \n\n\n\nBang’s translation is a revelation in its artistry\, readability\, and faithfulness to Dante’s ambition for an epic poem that dares to employ language and references recognizable to its readers. In her lyric style and her illuminating and generous notes\, Bang has made The Divine Comedy for the twenty-first century. \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 and Purgatorio. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/slcl-presents-mary-jo-bang/ LOCATION:St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch\, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63131-3598\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SLCL2526-0724-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250817T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250817T235900 DTSTAMP:20260414T152813 CREATED:20250729T214900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T215920Z UID:10000598-1755475140-1755475140@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due DESCRIPTION:Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Eileen G’Sell for the August Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop focused on the power of sensory description. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHot Words\, Live LINES: Tension and Surprise in Language \n\n\n\nBrain scans demonstrate that our neurons light up differently when we read concrete\, sensory language rather than abstractions. What does that mean for poets? In this generative workshop\, we will explore how poetry can embrace the power of sensory description. \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\, August 17\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: August 17\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEILEEN G’SELL is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Poetry\, Oversound\, Hyperallergic\, The Baffler\, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2023\, she received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism. Her second volume of poetry\, Francofilaments\, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2024; in 2026\, her first nonfiction book\, Lipstick\, will be published as part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-august-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SW2526-0817-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR