BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Saint Louis Poetry Center - ECPv6.16.3//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:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD 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:20230223T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230223T190000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230641 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:20260630T230642 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:20260630T230642 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:20260630T230642 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:20260630T230642 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:20260630T230642 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230108T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230108T235900 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20221208T203422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T203800Z UID:10000493-1673222340-1673222340@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Travis Mossotti will take place on January 15\, 2023. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \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\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-submissions-due-january-2023/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SW2223-Jan8-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221208T190000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20221208T192421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T193040Z UID:10000492-1670526000-1670526000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:SLCL Authors @ the J Presents: Billy Collins DESCRIPTION:This is a ticketed event. The reading will be held in-person at The J Staenberg Family Complex – Edison Gymnasium. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe St. Louis County Library Foundation\, HEC Media\, the Favorite Author Series\, The J – St. Louis\, Saint Louis Poetry Center\, and Novel Neighbor present former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins\, author of Musical Tables. In conversation with Aliki Barnstone – Poet Laureate of Missouri\, 2016-2019 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKET INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets available for purchase at the event starting at 6:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nINDIVIDUAL TICKET $32Admits ONE and includes one copy of “Musical Tables” \n\n\n\nOR \n\n\n\nPACKAGE TICKET $38Admits TWO and includes one copy of “Musical Tables” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00 p.m.A socially-distanced book signing line will follow the presentation.Books available from Novel Neighbor. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo-time United States Poet Laureate is widely loved for his amiable voice\, wit\, and profound wisdom. Now “America’s favorite poet” has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature\, animals\, poetry\, mortality\, absurdity\, and love—all in a handful of lines. The poems of Musical Tables show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBILLY COLLINS is the former Poet Laureate of the United States. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry\, including the bestsellers Aimless Love\, The Trouble with Poetry\, and Sailing Alone Around the Room. He is also the editor of Poetry 180\, 180 More\, and Bright Wings. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York\, Collins served as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife\, Suzannah. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/slcl-presents-billy-collins/ LOCATION:The J Staenberg Family Complex – Edison Gymnasium\, 2 Millstone Campus Drive\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63146\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SLCL2223-Dec8-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221122T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221122T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20221102T154901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221122T234143Z UID:10000489-1669145400-1669145400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:EVENT CANCELLED - Poetry at the Point: Marie Chewe-Elliott\, Jet McDonald & Daniel Biegelson DESCRIPTION:This reading has been CANCELLED due to illness. It will be rescheduled to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience. \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. \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. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-november-2022/ 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/2022/06/PP2122-Jun28-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221120T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221120T133000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20221102T161429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T162044Z UID:10000490-1668951000-1668951000@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\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\nSubmissions due one week prior to workshopSubmit only one poem\, one page in lengthProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email addressThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshopYou do not need to submit a poem to attendIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\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\nEXTENDED SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: November 15\, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n JASON VASSER-ELONG [Vassir–Eh-long] is assistant teaching professor in the Pierre Laclede Honors College and a doctoral student in the College of Education at the University of Missouri – St. Louis\, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing and studied cultural anthropology and African Diaspora studies. He is the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press\, 2018)\, a collection of poetry that analyzes identity in a post-colonial context. Jason has two peer reviewed articles: Perfect Water which appears in the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies in the “Proceedings” issue (2021) and Treading the Atlantic which appears in the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies – special issue on “Netherlandic Migrations: Narratives from North America” (2016). He was a General Anthropology Division travel award recipient for the 2021 American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in Baltimore\, MD\, where he presented Treading the Atlantic. Jason has poetry in numerous anthologies and currently serves as poet-in-residence for Sapiens Magazine 2022. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-november-2022/ 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/2022/11/SW2223-Nov20-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221107T190000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20221102T165829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221102T223052Z UID:10000491-1667847600-1667847600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:SLCL Presents: Ross Gay DESCRIPTION:Reading from Inciting Joy: Essays\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Ethical Society of St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe St. Louis County Library Foundation\, HEC Media\, the Favorite Author Series\, St. Louis Poetry Center\, and Left Bank Books present Award-Winning Poet and Essayist\, Ross Gay\, author of Inciting Joy: Essays. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00pm.Seating is limited; early arrival is recommended.Books available from Left Bank Books. Curbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\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. His first collection of essays\, The Book of Delights\, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new collection of essays\, Inciting Joy\, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/slcl-presents-ross-gay/ LOCATION:Ethical Society of St. Louis\, 9001 Clayton Rd\, St Louis\, Missouri\, 63117\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SLCL2223-Nov7-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221025T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221025T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20221013T203435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221025T231128Z UID:10000488-1666726200-1666726200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Katerina Canyon\, Jennifer Goldring & Katherine Mitchell DESCRIPTION: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\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\nKaterina Canyon is a 2020 and 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominee. Her stories have been published in The New York Times\, The Huffington Post\, and Folks. Her poetry has been published in CatheXis Northwest\, The Esthetic Apostle\, Into the Void\, Black Napkin\, and Waxing & Waning. Her first book of poetry\, Changing the Lines\, was released in 2017. From 2000 to 2003\, she served as the Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga. She has a B.A. in English\, International Studies and Creative Writing from Saint Louis University and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her latest book\, Surviving Home\, was released in 2021. Katerina Canyon currently lives in Seattle\, WA. Readers can connect with her on Instagram\, Twitter\, Goodreads\, and Facebook. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Goldring is a poet based in St. Louis\, Missouri. On her days off\, she’s likely playing with clay\, taking photos\, hanging with her teenagers\, or writing poems. She’s Managing Editor for december magazine. Her award-winning poetry has appeared in various publications\, and her photography and other work can be found at jennifergoldring.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine Mitchell’s poems and essays appear in 2River View\, The Southern Review and The Louisville Review. The Southern Review nominated her poetry for Best New Poets. Katherine holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri—St. Louis. She’s an Alexander Technique teacher and teaches movement for writers workshops across the country. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-october-2022/ 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/2022/10/PP2223-Oct25-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221024T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221024T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20221011T202044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T151542Z UID:10000487-1666639800-1666639800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Carl Phillips & David Baker 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\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\nCARL PHILLIPS is the author of 16 books of poetry\, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, 2022). His honors include the 2021 Jackson Prize\, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, a Lambda Literary Award\, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry\, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Library of Congress\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and the Academy of American Poets. Phillips has also written three prose books\, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press\, 2022); and he has translated the Philoctetes of Sophocles (Oxford University Press\, 2004). He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDAVID BAKER is author of thirteen books of poetry\, recently Whale Fall\, published in July by W. W.Norton\, and Swift: New and Selected Poems\, as well as six books of prose about poetry. Among hisawards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation\, NEA\, Mellon Foundation\, andPoetry Society of America. Baker’s poetry and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review\, TheAtlantic\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Yale Review\, and others.  Heserved for many years as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review\, where he continues to curate the annualeco-poetry issue\, “Nature’s Nature.” Baker lives in Granville\, Ohio. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-october-2022/ 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/2022/10/OR2223-Oct24-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220927T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220927T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220918T182412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T173015Z UID:10000396-1664307000-1664307000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jane Ellen Ibur\, María T. Balogh & Alex Balogh DESCRIPTION: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\nJane Ellen Ibur\, Poet Laureate of St Louis\, Missouri\, an established arts educator\, received a Visionary Award for Outstanding Arts Educator; recognized as a Warrior Poet from Word in Motion; two awards from the Missouri Scholar’s Academy\, A World of Difference Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Honored with an Author Recognition Award by the Missouri Center for the Book\, she is published in literary journals and anthologies garnering additional awards. She is the author of Both Wings Flappin’\, Still Not Flyin’ and The Little Mrs./Misses both published by PenUltimate Press. For further details\, visit Ibur’s Wikipedia page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaría T. Balogh is a multilingual\, bicultural poet\, fiction writer\, performing Caribbean folkloric dancer\, and educator. She has a book of poetry in Spanish by Ediciones Torremozas\, a Spanish publisher\, and a collection of poetry and fiction in English by Cool Way Press. Her fiction and poetry have been published in several different journals from the USA and South America. She has been all over and done just about everything\, including building rural aqueducts while in the Peace Corps. She now teaches Spanish\, specializing in Latin American literature and culture\, and creative writing at the University of Missouri St Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Balogh is author of the novel Accidental Destination and the poetry collection And Yet. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-september-2022/ 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/2022/09/PP2223-Sep27-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220823T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220823T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220816T174732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220816T175239Z UID:10000395-1661283000-1661283000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Tim Fox\, John Dorroh & Jim Hanson DESCRIPTION: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\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent attendees are required to wear a mask\, and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThough he is primarily a magazine editor and widely published nonfiction writer\, Tim Fox has written poetry since his childhood in St. Joseph\, Missouri. He finds poetry to be a shortcut to emotion\, and he likes the poems best that come to him when he’s not trying to write poetry at all. Tim lives in Southampton with his wife\, Ellen Reed-Fox\, and daughter Kate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Dorroh has never fallen into an active volcano or caught a hummingbird. However\, he managed to bake bread with Austrian monks and drink a healthy portion of their beer. He wrote his first poem on the bathroom wall with his mother’s red lipstick. He hopes that his work has evolved since then. Two of his poems were nominated for Best of the Net and others have appeared in over 100 journals including Feral\, Pinyon\, North Dakota Quarterly\, River Heron\, Burningword\, Many Fine Donkeys\, and Selcouth Station. His first chapbook\, Swim at Your Own Risk\, was published in March 2022. His second one\, Personal Ad Poetry\, was published earlier this month. And a third\, This\, My Pie Hope\, & Other Related Tidbits\, is pending. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim Hanson is a sociologist and retired senior researcher at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale\, where he worked and taught in economic and community development. He resides in the St. Louis area and is an ordinated Zen Buddhist. In addition to his book Endless Journey\, a chapbook titled Anthropic Musings was published in 2019 by Flutter Press\, and single poems have appeared in more than twenty websites and printings. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-august-2022/ 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/2022/08/PP2122-Aug23-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220628T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220628T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220621T173627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220628T165456Z UID:10000394-1656444600-1656444600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Poetry at the Point: Marie Chewe-Elliott\, Jet McDonald & Daniel Biegelson DESCRIPTION:This reading has been CANCELLED due to illness. It will be rescheduled to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent attendees are required to wear a mask\, and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to 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. \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. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-june-2022/ 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/2022/06/PP2122-Jun28-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220524T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220524T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220505T002210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T214121Z UID:10000392-1653420600-1653420600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Andrea Carter Brown\, A. J. Ward & Alice Azure DESCRIPTION: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\nEvent attendees are required to wear a mask\, and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nANDREA CARTER BROWN is the author of September 12 (The Word Works\, 2021)\, The Disheveled Bed (CavanKerry Press\, 2006) and two chapbooks\, Domestic Karma (Finishing Line Press\, 2018) and Brook & Rainbow (Winner of the 2000 Sow’s Ear Press Chapbook Award). Her poems have won the Five Points James Dickey Prize\, the River Styx International Poetry Prize\, and the PSA Gustav Davidson Memorial Prize\, among many others. Since 2017\, she has been Series Editor of the Word Works Washington Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA. J. Ward is a baker and writer living in St. Louis\, MO. His work especially delights in the relationships between people and place. He’s released several albums of songs\, has poems in a few publications\, and would love to know about the weird foods that only exist in your hometown. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlice Azure’s recent work has appeared in Dawnland Voices 2.0\, Yellow Medicine Review and The St. Louis Anthology. She is the author of five books\, the most recent a volume of poetry\, Hunger Feast\, released December of 2017. Her chapbook\, Worn Cities\, was selected as poetry chapbook of 2015 by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers. She lives in the St. Louis area and is a member of Saint Louis Poetry Center. Along with many other Mi’kmaw artists\, humanists\, educators\, lawyers\, and writers\, some of her work has been archived at the website Tepi’ketuek. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-may-2022/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PP2122-May24-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220515T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220515T133000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220511T203732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220511T203946Z UID:10000393-1652621400-1652621400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:2022 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\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to celebrate the winners of the 2022 Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest for High School Students. 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\nEvent attendees are required to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to High Low. Masks recommended. \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 tireless efforts and support of volunteer contest coordinator and local poet Robert Lowes. Thank you! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2022 CONTEST WINNERS & HONORABLE MENTIONS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIRST PLACETenley Hall\, Clayton High SchoolUp North \n\n\n\nSECOND PLACEJelani Penny-Johnson\, Metro Academic & Classical High SchoolThis is the Life We Have \n\n\n\nTHIRD PLACEMargaret Handley\, Nerinx Hall High SchoolThreadwork \n\n\n\n\n\nHONORABLE MENTIONSDelaney Carey\, Nerinx Hall High SchoolTo Pin A Bouncy-Ball Down \n\n\n\nCharlie Wagner\, St. Louis Priory SchoolWhat the Bartender Said \n\n\n\nNicholas Merlo\, Crossroads College Preparatory SchoolKick Me While I’m Down \n\n\n\nTatum Ladner\, Clayton High SchoolBrown Buttons URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/2022-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/2022/05/HC2122-May15-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220428T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220428T180000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220421T204025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220422T180335Z UID:10000391-1651168800-1651168800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Outside LitMag Issue 6 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\nImage credit: Peter Rowlyk (Collegiate School of Medicine & Bioscience)\, Jeremiah Miller (Metro Academic & Classical High School)\, Lara Wulff (Outside Literary Magazine Alum)\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 6. 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 6 will be available for purchase at the event. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent attendees are required to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to High Low. Masks recommended. \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 SchuhRachel Bohn-FriedhoffTeacher:Evan Wagman (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Sponsor:Chandra AlfordTeacher:John Tevlin (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nTeachers:Colette Morton (ELA)Morgan Kemp (ELA)\n\n\n\n\n\nTeachers:Olivia Shirley (ELA)Nicole Misra (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\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\nMajor support for Outside Literary Magazine program expansion 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-6-release/ 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/2022/04/OLM2122-Apr28-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220426T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220426T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220414T163359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T174403Z UID:10000389-1651001400-1651001400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Agnes Vojta & Vincent Casaregola DESCRIPTION: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\nEvent attendees are required to wear a mask\, and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAGNES VOJTA grew up in Germany and now lives in Rolla\, Missouri where she teaches physics at Missouri S&T and hikes the Ozarks. She is the author of Porous Land (Spartan Press\, 2019) and The Eden of Perhaps (Spartan Press\, 2020)\, and her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines. Her website is agnesvojta.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVINCENT CASAREGOLA teaches American literature and film\, creative writing\, and rhetorical studies at Saint Louis University. His book\, Theaters of War: America’s Perceptions of World War II (Palgrave/Macmillan\, 2009)\, provides a comprehensive examination of American World War II literature and film from the 1940s through the early 2000s. He has published poetry in a number of journals\, including 2River\, The Bellevue Literary Review\, Blood and Thunder\, Dappled Things\, The Examined Life\, Lifelines\, Natural Bridge\, Please See Me\, WLA\, and Work. He has also published creative nonfiction in New Letters and The North American Review. He has recently completed a book-length manuscript of poetry dealing with issues of medicine\, illness\, and loss (Vital Signs). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOET CANCELLATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY HELEN CALLIER is unable to join us for Poetry at the Point this month. We are working to get her rescheduled. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-april-2022/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/PP2122-Apr26-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220423T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220423T190000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220414T205401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T214730Z UID:10000390-1650740400-1650740400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Book Launch Celebration: Paul Tran & Dana Levin DESCRIPTION:Reading from All the Flowers Kneeling (Tran) and Now Do You Know Where You Are (Levin) \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 in celebrating the launch of new books by Paul Tran and Dana Levin. Copies of All the Flowers Kneeling and Now Do You Know Where You Are will be available for purchase from Left Bank Books. Cash bar\, refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Tran transmogrifies the grotesque to the gorgeous\, the victim to the victor\, the oppressed to the liberated.” —Electric Literature \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Reading a Dana Levin poem is a bit like spelunking into a cave of golden light in which there is a reverse disco ball that turns in synch to the beat of your heart.” —The Kenyon Review \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent attendees are required to wear a mask\, and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPAUL TRAN is the author of the debut poetry collection\, All the Flowers Kneeling\, from Penguin in the US and the UK. Their work appears in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Bazaar\, NPR\, and elsewhere\, including the movie Love Beats Rhymes with Azealia Banks\, Common\, and Jill Scott. A recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts\, Paul is a Visiting Faculty in Poetry at Pacific University MFA in Writing and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDANA LEVIN’s fifth book is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon\, Spring 2022)\, a Lannan Literary Selection. Recent books include Banana Palace (2016) and Sky Burial (2011)\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” 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. Levin teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/book-launch-tran-levin/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Book Launch Party,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/BOOK2122-Apr23-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220411T190000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220308T003448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T165521Z UID:10000486-1649703600-1649703600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Mary Ruefle & Mark Wunderlich DESCRIPTION:The reading will be 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 the exhibition Erasures\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome acclaimed poets Mary Ruefle and Mark Wunderlich for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Kranzberg Arts Foundation\, High Low\, and Bennington College \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY RUEFLE is the author of many books of poetry\, including Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007) and The Adamant (1989)\, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. A Little White Shadow (2006)\, her book of erasures—found texts in which all but a few words have been erased from the page—reveals what Publishers Weekly called “haiku-like minifables\, sideways aphorisms\, and hauntingly perplexing koans.” A graduate of Bennington College\, where she studied literature\, Ruefle has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, as well as a Whiting Writers’ Award and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry\, Great American Prose Poems (2003)\, American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006)\, and The Next American Essay (2002). Ruefle has also published a collection of fiction\, The Most of It (2008). Her most recent collection Dunce (2019) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. Ruefle has taught at Vermont College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Vermont. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARK WUNDERLICH is the author of The Anchorage (1999)\, which received the Lambda Literary Award\, Voluntary Servitude (2004)\, The Earth Avails (2014)\, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and received the 2015 Rilke Prize\, and God of Nothingness (2021).  He has received fellowships from the NEA\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Amy Lowell Trust and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.  Wunderlich has taught at Stanford and Barnard College and in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University\, Ohio University\, San Francisco State University and Sarah Lawrence.  As an arts administrator\, he has worked at the Academy of American Poets\, Poetry Society of America\, the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Poets & Writers and the Napa Valley Writers Conference.  He holds a BA in German Literature and English from the University of Wisconsin\, and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Wunderlich lives in the Hudson River Valley and has taught at Bennington since 2004. He became the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars in August 2017. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-april-2022/ LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/OR2122-Apr11-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220403T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220403T133000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220308T003412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T035422Z UID:10000485-1648992600-1648992600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Mark Wunderlich DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Nicholas Kahn\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with Mary Ruefle’s exhibition Erasures\, poet and exhibit curator Mark Wunderlich will lead the April Sunday Workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop attendees are required to wear a mask\, and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to 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 poems/participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\nSubmissions due one week prior to workshopSubmit only one poem\, one page in lengthProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email addressThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshopYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmail* 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 27\, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARK WUNDERLICH is the author of The Anchorage (1999)\, which received the Lambda Literary Award\, Voluntary Servitude (2004)\, The Earth Avails (2014)\, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and received the 2015 Rilke Prize\, and God of Nothingness (2021).  He has received fellowships from the NEA\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Amy Lowell Trust and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.  Wunderlich has taught at Stanford and Barnard College and in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University\, Ohio University\, San Francisco State University and Sarah Lawrence.  As an arts administrator\, he has worked at the Academy of American Poets\, Poetry Society of America\, the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Poets & Writers and the Napa Valley Writers Conference.  He holds a BA in German Literature and English from the University of Wisconsin\, and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Wunderlich lives in the Hudson River Valley and has taught at Bennington since 2004. He became the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars in August 2017. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-april-2022/ 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/2022/03/SW2122-Apr3-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220402T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220402T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220308T003333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220402T175649Z UID:10000484-1648911600-1648911600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Mary Ruefle DESCRIPTION:In conversation with poet & exhibit curator Mark Wunderlich\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe lecture will be in-person at High Low\, and streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook Live page. \n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credits: Matt Valentine (Ruefle)\, Nicholas Kahn (Wunderlich)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with the exhibition Erasures\, poet and artist Mary Ruefle\, in conversation with acclaimed poet and exhibit curator Mark Wunderlich\, discusses her practice of erasure\, which she defines as “creating a new text by disappearing the old text that surrounds it.” Using a variety of techniques and media\, Ruefle covers over original texts to reveal new voices\, phrases\, narratives\, and poetic fragments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Kranzberg Arts Foundation\, High Low\, and Bennington College \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST & CURATOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY RUEFLE is author of over a dozen books of poems\, essays\, and short fiction\, including Dunce (2019)\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2020 Pulitzer Prize\, My Private Property (2016)\, Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007)\, and The Adamant (1989)\, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection Madness\, Rack\, and Honey (2012)\, the work of fiction The Most of It (2008)\, and A Little White Shadow (2006)\, a book of erasures. A full-color facsimile of her erasure An Incarnation of the Now was published in a limited edition by See Double Press. A graduate of Bennington College\, where she studied literature\, and a resident of Bennington\, Vermont\, Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors\, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Whiting Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARK WUNDERLICH is the author of The Anchorage (1999)\, which received the Lambda Literary Award\, Voluntary Servitude (2004)\, The Earth Avails (2014)\, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and received the 2015 Rilke Prize\, and God of Nothingness (2021).  He has received fellowships from the NEA\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Amy Lowell Trust and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.  Wunderlich has taught at Stanford and Barnard College and in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University\, Ohio University\, San Francisco State University and Sarah Lawrence.  As an arts administrator\, he has worked at the Academy of American Poets\, Poetry Society of America\, the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Poets & Writers and the Napa Valley Writers Conference.  He holds a BA in German Literature and English from the University of Wisconsin\, and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Wunderlich lives in the Hudson River Valley and has taught at Bennington since 2004. He became the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars in August 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIMAGE CREDITS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Ruefle\, “The Sea-Shore Vacation\,” 2018\, 4¼ x 6 x ¾ x 1 inches (courtesy of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum) URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/erasures-artist-talk/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition,Lectures & Talks,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/OR2122-Apr2-900x300-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220401T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220401T190000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220308T003244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T035152Z UID:10000483-1648839600-1648839600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Meet the Curator: Mark Wunderlich DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of First Fridays in Grand Center\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Nicholas Kahn\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with Mary Ruefle’s exhibition Erasures\, poet and exhibit curator Mark Wunderlich gives a celebratory toast and brief introduction to Ruefle’s work. Refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Kranzberg Arts Foundation and Bennington College \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent attendees are required to wear a mask\, and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to High Low. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST & CURATOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY RUEFLE is author of over a dozen books of poems\, essays\, and short fiction\, including Dunce (2019)\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2020 Pulitzer Prize\, My Private Property (2016)\, Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007)\, and The Adamant (1989)\, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection Madness\, Rack\, and Honey (2012)\, the work of fiction The Most of It (2008)\, and A Little White Shadow (2006)\, a book of erasures. A full-color facsimile of her erasure An Incarnation of the Now was published in a limited edition by See Double Press. A graduate of Bennington College\, where she studied literature\, and a resident of Bennington\, Vermont\, Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors\, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Whiting Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARK WUNDERLICH is the author of The Anchorage (1999)\, which received the Lambda Literary Award\, Voluntary Servitude (2004)\, The Earth Avails (2014)\, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and received the 2015 Rilke Prize\, and God of Nothingness (2021).  He has received fellowships from the NEA\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Amy Lowell Trust and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.  Wunderlich has taught at Stanford and Barnard College and in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University\, Ohio University\, San Francisco State University and Sarah Lawrence.  As an arts administrator\, he has worked at the Academy of American Poets\, Poetry Society of America\, the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Poets & Writers and the Napa Valley Writers Conference.  He holds a BA in German Literature and English from the University of Wisconsin\, and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Wunderlich lives in the Hudson River Valley and has taught at Bennington since 2004. He became the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars in August 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIMAGE CREDITS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Ruefle\, “Friends in Fur and Feathers\,” 2006\, 6 x 9 inches (courtesy of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum) URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/erasures-meet-the-curator/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition,In-Person Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/OR2122-Apr1-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220317T204212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T163339Z UID:10000388-1647977400-1647977400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jo Schaper\, Erin Wiles & Joss Barton DESCRIPTION: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\n\n\n\n\nCONTENT WARNING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSome of the poems during the first set of tonight’s reading contain explicit sexual descriptions\, as well as anti-LGBTQ+ language. The poet will reiterate this warning at the beginning and close of the set. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent attendees are required to wear a mask\, and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test upon entrance to Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJO SCHAPER‘s first publications were two chapbooks: one of railroad poetry\, and Riding the Twister–what happened to Dorothy when she returned from Oz. After an interval of 40 years\, she produced The Paw Paw Almanac and Reader with Steve Nagle\, then The Rockhound Rangers Chronicles chapbook. She and Steve are currently working on River Songs and Wayfaring Sagas -a water themed miscellany. She has BA degrees in writing and geology. and has worked in printing and publishing her whole life. She runs Geo Communications Services\, and is a partner in Paw Paw Poets Publishing\, LP. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nERIN WILES is a St. Louis poet\, editor\, and bookmaker. Her works include I & APOCALYPSE (JKPublishing 2006)\, FRACTALS (Saint Louis Projects 2009)\, & ANGELS DRIVE ALL OF MY UBERS (poor metaphor design 2020). She and Ellen Herget were co-editors of BAD SHOE\, a quarterly handmade journal published from 2010-13\, featuring almost exclusively female artists & writers\, for which they received a KICKASS AWARD from 52nd City magazine. Wiles got her start in indie publishing as an editor and designer for JKPublishing in Athens\, Ohio and then offset press Saint Louis Projects. She also worked in academic publishing at the Ohio University Press\, her alma mater (2006// BA summa cum laude). Wiles’ current publishing outfit is Poor Metaphor Design. Wishing to integrate physical movement and play into the reading of poetry\, the first project—a handmade Jacob’s ladder haiku mashup—was a collaboration with esteemed haiku artist Ben Moeller Gaa & visual artist Ron Isom. This work is held at the American Haiku Archives in Sacramento\, CA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJOSS BARTON is a writer\, journalist\, and spoken word performance artist exploring and documenting queer and trans* life\, love\, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the soundtrack of the American nightmare. Combining prose poetry\, non-fiction confessional essays\, drag artistry\, and spoken word stage performances\, Joss examines the myriad states of queer trans womanhoods from historical\, political\, and pop cultural identities of death\, desires\, dreams\, and disco. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-march-2022/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/PP2122-Mar22-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220320T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220320T133000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220308T000530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T000531Z UID:10000482-1647783000-1647783000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop Online: Treasure Shields Redmond DESCRIPTION:Sunday Workshop and COVID-19\n\n\n\nSunday Workshop will continue to be offered as a distance-learning workshop in March. It will take place online using Zoom online video conferencing. If you are not submitting a poem but would like to attend\, please email us at sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org to register. \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\nSubmissions due March 15\, 2022Submit only one poem\, one page in lengthProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email addressThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshopYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmail* 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 15\, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Mississippi native\, DR. TREASURE SHIELDS REDMOND is a published poet\, master educator\, community arts organizer\, and successful entrepreneur. Treasure was raised in the federal housing projects\, and went on to be signed to M.C. Hammer’s label as a hip hop artist\, and writer. She is the author of chop: a collection of kwansabas for fannie lou hamer (2015). Dr. Redmond has co-founded Fannie Lou Hamer House\, a retreat space for Black artists\, and is the founder of Feminine Pronoun Consultants\, LLC\, and Get The Acceptance Letter Academy. Dr. Redmond was recently named a post doctoral fellow of literary executorship for the estate of Dr. Eugene B. Redmond and the late Henry Dumas. Find out how to contact and collaborate with Dr. Redmond at www.FemininePronoun.com URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-march-2022/ LOCATION:Zoom Online Video Conference CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SW2122-Mar20-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220315T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220315T235900 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220308T040852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T040852Z UID:10000387-1647388740-1647388740@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop Online: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:Poetry submissions for the Sunday Workshop with Treasure Shields Redmond are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday Workshop and COVID-19\n\n\n\nSunday Workshop will continue to be offered as a distance-learning workshop in March. It will take place online using Zoom online video conferencing. If you are not submitting a poem but would like to attend\, please email us at sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org to register. \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\nSubmissions due March 15\, 2022Submit only one poem\, one page in lengthProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email addressThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshopYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmail* 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 15\, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Mississippi native\, DR. TREASURE SHIELDS REDMOND is a published poet\, master educator\, community arts organizer\, and successful entrepreneur. Treasure was raised in the federal housing projects\, and went on to be signed to M.C. Hammer’s label as a hip hop artist\, and writer. She is the author of chop: a collection of kwansabas for fannie lou hamer (2015). Dr. Redmond has co-founded Fannie Lou Hamer House\, a retreat space for Black artists\, and is the founder of Feminine Pronoun Consultants\, LLC\, and Get The Acceptance Letter Academy. Dr. Redmond was recently named a post doctoral fellow of literary executorship for the estate of Dr. Eugene B. Redmond and the late Henry Dumas. Find out how to contact and collaborate with Dr. Redmond at www.FemininePronoun.com URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-march-2022/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SW2122-Mar15-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220217T210044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220222T234953Z UID:10000481-1645558200-1645558200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point Online: Rebecca Ellis\, Matthew Freeman & Teddy Norris DESCRIPTION:The reading will be streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook Live page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Ellis\n\n\n\nRebecca Ellis lives in southern Illinois. Her poems can be found in About Place Journal\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Crab Creek Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and Prairie Schooner. She is a Master Naturalist through the University of Illinois Extension Service. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Freeman\n\n\n\nMatthew Freeman is the author of several collections of poetry\, most recently Ideas of Reference at Jesuit Hall (Coffeetown Press) and Exile (2River). He holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-St Louis\, where he was awarded the Graduate Poetry Prize. Find him on Twitter: @FreemanPoet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeddy Norris\n\n\n\nTeddy Norris holds an MLA from Washington University in St. Louis\, and before retirement she taught literature and writing at St. Charles Community College for two decades. She also edited the college’s literary journal Mid Rivers Review for five years. Her work has appeared in various print and online journals\, including The Country Dog Review\, Little Patuxent Review\, The Switchgrass Review\, Broad River Review\, Kakalak\, and Flying South. Her chapbook Pillars of Salt was published by Finishing Line Press in 2015. She lives in the city of St. Charles with her very supportive husband and two cats who categorically refuse to appear in a video. More info at teddynorris.com. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-online-february-2022/ LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PP2122-Feb22-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220125T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220125T193000 DTSTAMP:20260630T230642 CREATED:20220119T192831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T002258Z UID:10000480-1643139000-1643139000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point Online: Dwight Bitikofer\, Katy Gordon & Paul Stroble DESCRIPTION:The reading will be streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook Live page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDwight Bitikofer\n\n\n\nDwight Bitikofer became involved with St. Louis poetry circles in the early 2000s and was active in open mic circles. He has done a number of “po-jazz” performances with a jazz musician friend\, Raven Wolf C. Felton Jennings II. He has emceed and curated many poetry events. He had the opportunity to learn from poets at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival for over 10 years. He served on the boards of St. Louis Writer’s Guild and St. Louis Poetry Center. Bitikofer has received a number of writing recognitions and publications for his poetry and for his newspaper column. He received an honorary doctorate of letters from his alma mater\, Webster University\, in 2015. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaty Gordon\n\n\n\nKatherine Gordon studied at the University of Glasgow\, where she obtained a Ph.D. in Scottish Literature. Her work has appeared in the US and the UK including\, most recently\, in Beloit Poetry Journal. Voices From Their Ain Countrie: The Poems of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob\, a joint edition of two twentieth-century Scots poets she edited\, is published by the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Stroble\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\, published by Finishing Line Press\, are Dreaming at the Electric Hobo (2015)\, Little River (2017)\, Small Corner of the Stars (2017)\, Backyard Darwin (2019)\, and Walking Lorton Bluff (2020). URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-online-january-2022/ LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PP2122-Jan25-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR