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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220403T133000
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T193000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220320T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220320T133000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220315T235900
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220315T235900
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T193000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220125T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220125T193000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211123T193000
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SUMMARY:Tick Tock Poets: Stefene Russell\, Allison Cundiff\, Lizzy Petersen & Steven Schroeder
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\nPoetry at the Point and COVID-19\n\n\n\nThe health\, safety\, and well-being of our audiences\, visiting poets\, SLPC staff & volunteers\, and the St. Louis community is our top priority. Patrons attending Poetry at the Point in-person are required to provide upon entrance to Focal Point: \n\n\n\nA photo ID\, AND;A vaccination card with name that indicates full vaccination\, OR A photo of a complete vaccination card with name\, OR A negative RT-PCR test taken within 72 hours of the event date\, OR A negative antigen test taken within 24 hours of the event date\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTick Tock Poets\n\n\n\nThe Tick Tock Poets are a loose collective based in the St. Louis region who meet regularly for meaningful critique of each other’s work. They represent a varying array of writing styles\, formal training backgrounds\, and poetics. They also enjoy a well-made bourbon from time to time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStefene Russell\n\n\n\nStefene Russell is the author of Inferna (Intagliata Press\, 2013)\, The Possum Codex (Otis Nebula\, 2015) and 47 Incantatory Essays (Spartan Press\, 2019). She was also the 2018 Laumeier Sculpture Park Poet-in-Residence. Find her online at stefenerussell.com\, Twitter & Instagram. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison Cundiff\n\n\n\nAllison Cundiff’s publications include three books of poetry: Just to See How It Feels (2018\, Word Press)\, Otherings (2016\, Golden Antelope Press)\, and In Short\, A Memory of the Other on a Good Day\, co-authored with Steven Schreiner\, (2014\, Golden Antelope Press). Her non-fiction is featured in The Pragmatic Buddhist\, The St. Louis Post Dispatch\, Feminist Teacher\, and In Layman’s Terms Literary Journal; her fiction can be found at Hot Flash Fiction; her poetry is featured in The Chariton Review\, Little Patuxent Review\, The Night Heron Barks\, SWIMM\, The Antonym\, OxMag\, and Let’s Stab Caesar!. She lives in St. Louis where she teaches English. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLizzy Petersen\n\n\n\nLizzy Petersen is a poet from St. Louis\, MO\, where she works in public media and directs a student-run\, after-school literary magazine\, Outside Literary Magazine\, through a partnership with St. Louis Public Schools and Saint Louis Poetry Center. Her poetry has recently appeared in or is forthcoming in december\, Image\, Ninth Letter\, Pinch\, and Southern Humanities Review\, among others. In 2021 she was awarded the Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Interchange Fellowship and Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s Writer Residency. She currently serves as a contributing editor for $ – Poetry Is Currency and has previously served as the Managing Editor of River Styx and Co-Poetry Editor for Sycamore Review at Purdue University\, where she received her MFA in Poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteven D. Schroeder\n\n\n\nSteven D. Schroeder’s second book\, The Royal Nonesuch (Spark Wheel Press)\, won the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University. He edits the online poetry journal $ – Poetry Is Currency. His poetry is available from New England Review\, Crazyhorse\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Copper Nickel\, and Diagram. He works as a creative content manager for a financial marketing agency in St. Louis.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-november-2021/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Mary Jo Bang & Mark Bibbins
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\nBang Photo Credit: Matt Valentine \n\n\n\n\n\nBibbins Photo Credit: Rex Lott \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nObservable Readings and COVID-19\n\n\n\nThe health\, safety\, and well-being of our audiences\, visiting poets\, SLPC staff & volunteers\, and the St. Louis community is our top priority. Patrons attending Observable Readings in-person are required to provide upon entrance to High Low: \n\n\n\nA photo ID\, AND;A vaccination card with name that indicates full vaccination\, OR A photo of a complete vaccination card with name\, OR A negative RT-PCR test taken within 72 hours of the event date\, OR A negative antigen test taken within 24 hours of the event date\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll for Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and a 2012 translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, and a 2021 translation of Purgatorio. She holds an MA degree in Sociology from Northwestern University\, a BA in Photography from the former Polytechnic of Central London (now Westminster University)\, and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis where she teaches creative writing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Bibbins\n\n\n\nMark Bibbins is the author of four books of poems\, most recently 13th Balloon (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020)\, which received the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle. His first collection\, Sky Lounge (Graywolf Press\, 2003)\, received a Lambda Literary Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Paris Review\, and The Best American Poetry series. Bibbins teaches in the graduate writing programs of The New School and Columbia University\, and directs NYU’s Writers in Florence program.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-november-2021/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211026T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211026T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point Online: Andrea Scarpino\, Tim Heerdink & Tony Brewer
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\nAndrea Scarpino\n\n\n\nAndrea Scarpino is the author of the poetry collections Once Upon Wing Lake\, What the Willow Said as it Fell\, and Once\, Then. She received a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University\, and an MFA from The Ohio State University. She has published in numerous journals\, is co-editor of Nine Mile Magazine\, and served as Poet Laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 2015-2017. Her co-edited anthology is Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Heerdink\n\n\n\nTim Heerdink is the author of Somniloquy & Trauma in the Knottseau Well\, The Human Remains\, Red Flag and Other Poems\, Razed Monuments\, Checking Tickets on Oumaumua\, Sailing the Edge of Time\, I Hear a Siren’s Call\, Ghost Map\, A Cacophony of Birds in the House of Dread\, and short stories\, The Tithing of Man and HEA-VEN2. His poems appear in various journals and anthologies. He is the president of Midwest Writers Guild of Evansville\, Indiana. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTony Brewer\n\n\n\nTony Brewer is a poet\, live sound effects artist\, and event producer. He is executive director of the spoken word stage at the 4th Street Arts Festival and president of the National Audio Theatre Festival. His books include: The Great American Scapegoat\, Little Glove in a Big Hand\, Hot Type Cold Read\, Homunculus\, and brand new from Alien Buddha Press\, The History of Projectiles. Tony has been offering Poetry On Demand at coffeehouses\, museums\, cemeteries\, churches\, bars\, and art and music festivals for over a decade\, and he is one-third of the poetry performance group Reservoir Dogwoods.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-online-october-2021/
LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210928T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210928T193000
DTSTAMP:20210928T233939Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point Online: Jenny Mueller\, William Youngblood & Felicia Clemmons
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\nJenny Mueller\n\n\n\nJenny Mueller is the author of two poetry books\, State Park and Bonneville\, both from Colorado’s Elixir Press. In 2017\, Fence Digital published Moonie\, a book of poetry by the late Brian Young\, which Jenny edited and for which she wrote an afterword. Currently she is working on her third book of poems and writing essays concerning sound imagery and images of starlight in literature. Recent poetry and prose work has appeared in Interim and Another Chicago Magazine. Jenny is Professor of English at McKendree University in Lebanon\, Illinois. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Youngblood\n\n\n\nWilliam Youngblood was born near Los Angeles\, CA\, and lives in St. Louis\, MO\, where he received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis before serving as the 2018-2019 Poetry Junior Teaching Fellow. His work has appeared in Passages North and Prolit Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFelicia Clemmons\n\n\n\nFelicia Clemmons was born in Columbia\, South Carolina and raised in St. Louis\, Missouri. She is the author of I love My People: And Other Black Thoughts and a Walk Award winner of the 2018 Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest in Bellingham\, Washington. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in sociology from Belmont University in Nashville\, Tennessee and is currently working on her doctorate in physical therapy at Washington University in St. Louis. When she isn’t writing or studying\, she enjoys hiking\, painting\, and spending time with her cat\, Maymuna.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-online-september-2021/
LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210913T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210913T193000
DTSTAMP:20210914T043517Z
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Donika Kelly & Kaveh Akbar
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. Please note the livestream can only be viewed the night of the event. \n\n\n\n\n\nAkbar Photo Credit: Marlon James \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nObservable Readings and COVID-19\n\n\n\nThe health\, safety\, and well-being of our audiences\, visiting poets\, SLPC staff & volunteers\, and the St. Louis community is our top priority. Patrons attending Observable Readings in-person are required to provide upon entrance to High Low: \n\n\n\nA photo ID\, AND;A vaccination card with name that indicates full vaccination\, OR A photo of a complete vaccination card with name\, OR A negative RT-PCR test taken within 72 hours of the event date\, OR A negative antigen test taken within 24 hours of the event date\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonika Kelly\n\n\n\nDonika Kelly is the author The Renunciations and Bestiary. Bestiary is the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry\, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the collective Poets at the End of the World\, Donika has also received a Lannan Residency Fellowship\, and a summer workshop fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center. She earned an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Paris Review\, and Foglifter. She currently lives in Iowa City and is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa\, where she teaches creative writing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaveh Akbar\n\n\n\nKaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books\, 2017; Penguin UK\, 2018). He is also the author of a chapbook\, Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry\, 2017). Kaveh is the recipient of the Levis Reading Prize\, Pushcart Prize\, Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship\, and Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Kaveh is the founding editor of Divedapper\, a home for interviews with major voices in contemporary poetry. With Sarah Kay and Claire Schwartz\, he writes a weekly column for the Paris Review called “Poetry RX.” Born in Tehran\, Iran\, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson. His poems appear in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, PBS NewsHour\, The New Republic\, Best American Poetry\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. His newest work\, Pilgrim Bell\, was released in August 2021 (Graywolf).
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-september-2021/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210824T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210824T193000
DTSTAMP:20210824T213449Z
CREATED:20210818T170726Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point Online: Stephanie Schlaifer\, Britny Cordera & 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\nStephanie Schlaifer\n\n\n\nStephanie Ellis Schlaifer is a poet and installation artist in St. Louis. She is the author of the poetry collections Well Waiting Room (Fordham University Press\, fall 2021) and Cleavemark (BOAAT Press\, 2016) and the children’s book The Cloud Lasso (Penny Candy Books\, 2019). Her poems and art have appeared in Bomb\, Bennington Review\, Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, Iowa Review\, AGNI\, Washington Square\, At Length\, The Offing\, Denver Quarterly\, LIT\, Colorado Review\, and on PoetryNow and the Poetry Foundation website\, among others. She frequently collaborates with other artists\, most recently with Cheryl Wassenaar on the installation The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs at the Des Lee Gallery. Her work can be viewed at stephanieschlaifer.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBritny Cordera\n\n\n\nBritny Cordera is a Black writer and Louisiana Creole poet\, descending from African\, Indigenous\, and French/Spanish ancestors. She was a finalist for the 2020 Narrative 30 Below contest. Cordera’s poetry can be found or is forthcoming in Rhino\, Narrative\, Xavier Review\, and PANK. Currently\, she is an MFA candidate at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale\, a teaching artist through Saint Louis Poetry Center\, and a poetry editor for The New Southern Fugitives. \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 poetry books\, published by Finishing Line Press\, are Dreaming at the Electric Hobo (2015)\, Little River (2017)\, Small Corner of the Stars (2017)\, Backyard Darwin (2019)\, and Walking Lorton Bluff (2020). His website is paulstroble.com.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-online-august-2021/
LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210815T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210815T133000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop Online: Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: Matt Valentine \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday Workshop and COVID-19\n\n\n\nIn the interest of public health\, Sunday Workshops continue to be offered as distance-learning workshops until further notice. They 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:\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\nHOW TO SUBMIT:\n\n\n\nEmail* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n*If submitting your poem by email\, please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMail poem to:We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: August 8\, 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, The Bride of E\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. Her translation of Purgatorio was just released from Graywolf on July 13\, 2021. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She was the poetry co-editor at Boston Review magazine from 1995–2005. She’s a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis where she teaches creative writing.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-august-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Video Conference
CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210808T235900
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210808T235900
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop Online: Submissions Due
DESCRIPTION:Poetry submissions for the Sunday Workshop with Mary Jo Bang are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\nSunday Workshop and COVID-19\n\n\n\nIn the interest of public health\, Sunday Workshops continue to be offered as distance-learning workshops until further notice. They 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:\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\nHOW TO SUBMIT:\n\n\n\nEmail* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n*If submitting your poem by email\, please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMail poem to:We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, The Bride of E\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. Her translation of Purgatorio is forthcoming from Graywolf on July 13\, 2021. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She was the poetry co-editor at Boston Review magazine from 1995–2005. She’s a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis where she teaches creative writing.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-august-2021/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210727T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point Online: Jason Vasser-Elong\, Linda Neal Reising & Stephan Delbos
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\nJason Vasser-Elong\n\n\n\nBefore publishing his debut collection Shrimp (2Leaf Press\, 2018)\, Jason earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Missouri – St. Louis\, where he also studied cultural anthropology and presented his ethnographic research Rhyme and Reason: Poetics as Societal Dialogue. His peer reviewed essay “Treading the Atlantic” appears in the special edition of the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies – Netherlandic Migrations: Narratives from North America\, and was presented at the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies conference as an introduction to the keynote lecture on post-colonial memory. His most recent poetry appears in Red Fez\, Issue 140\, The St. Louis Anthology and elsewhere. Jason has also been published in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch\, and has been featured in “Never Been a Time\,” a documentary about the race riots of 1919 in East St. Louis. He\, along with other famed St. Louis poets\, will appear in the forthcoming film Poetry In Motion: St. Louis Poets Take the Mic. More about Jason and be found at www.jvasserelong.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinda Neal Reising\n\n\n\nLinda Neal Reising\, a native of Oklahoma and a member of the Western Cherokee Nation\, has been published in numerous journals\, including The Southern Indiana Review\, The Comstock Review\, and Nimrod. Reising’s work has also appeared in a number of anthologies\, including The Boom Project\, Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write and Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana. She was named the winner of the 2012 Writer’s Digest Poetry Competition. Her chapbook\, Re-Writing Family History (Finishing Line Press)\, was a finalist for the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award\, as well as winner of the 2015 Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Poetry Book Prize. In 2018\, her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library. The Keeping\, her first full-length book of poetry\, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020\, and it recently won “Gold” in the Human Relations Indie Book Awards. Her second full-length book\, Stone Roses\, was published by Kelsay Books in 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephan Delbos\n\n\n\nStephan Delbos is the first Poet Laureate of Plymouth\, Massachusetts. He is the editor of From a Terrace in Prague: A Prague Poetry Anthology (Litteraria Pragensia\, 2011). His play Chetty’s Lullaby\, about trumpet legend Chet Baker\, was produced in San Francisco in 2014. His play Deaf Empire\, about Czech composer Bedřich Smetana\, was produced by Prague Shakespeare Company in 2017. His co-translation of The Absolute Gravedigger\, by Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval\, was awarded the PEN/Heim Translation Grant in 2015 and was published by Twisted Spoon Press\, along with as his co-translation of Nezval’s Woman in the Plural. He is the translator of Paris Notebook by Czech poet Tereza Riedlbauchová (The Visible Spectrum\, 2020)\, and the author of the poetry chapbook In Memory of Fire (Cape Cod Poetry Review\, 2016); and the poetry collections Light Reading (BlazeVOX\, 2019)\, and Small Talk (Dos Madres Press\, 2021). A Senior Lecturer at Charles University and Anglo-American University\, he is also a founding editor of B O D Y.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-online-july-2021/
LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210718T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210718T133000
DTSTAMP:20210727T191707Z
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED - Sunday Workshop Online: Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: Matt Valentine \n\n\n\nRESCHEDULED\n\n\n\nThis workshop has been reschedule for August 15\, 2021. Poetry submissions for the Sunday Workshop with Mary Jo Bang are now due on Sunday\, August 8 by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday Workshop and COVID-19\n\n\n\nIn the interest of public health\, Sunday Workshops continue to be offered as distance-learning workshops until further notice. They 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:\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\nHOW TO SUBMIT:\n\n\n\nEmail* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n*If submitting your poem by email\, please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMail poem to:We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: July 11\, 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, The Bride of E\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. Her translation of Purgatorio is forthcoming from Graywolf on July 13\, 2021. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She was the poetry co-editor at Boston Review magazine from 1995–2005. She’s a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis where she teaches creative writing.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-july-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Video Conference
CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Virtual / Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210711T235900
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210711T235900
DTSTAMP:20210727T190139Z
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED - Sunday Workshop Online: Submissions Due
DESCRIPTION:RESCHEDULED\n\n\n\nThis workshop has been reschedule for August 15\, 2021.  Poetry submissions for the Sunday Workshop with Mary Jo Bang are now due on Sunday\, August 8 by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\nSunday Workshop and COVID-19\n\n\n\nIn the interest of public health\, Sunday Workshops continue to be offered as distance-learning workshops until further notice. They 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:\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\nHOW TO SUBMIT:\n\n\n\nEmail* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n*If submitting your poem by email\, please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMail poem to:We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang\n\n\n\nMary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, The Bride of E\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. Her translation of Purgatorio is forthcoming from Graywolf on July 13\, 2021. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She was the poetry co-editor at Boston Review magazine from 1995–2005. She’s a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis where she teaches creative writing.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-july-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Video Conference
CATEGORIES:Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Adrian Matejka with Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Paul Tran
DESCRIPTION:Somebody Else Sold the World Launch Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe reading & conversation will be streamed live to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook Live page and to Left Bank Books’  Facebook Live page and YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Credits: Polina Osherov (Matejka)\, Caroline Beffa (Nezhukumatathil) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeft Bank Books and Saint Louis Poetry Center welcome National Book Award and Pulitzer Finalist Adrian Matejka\, who will discuss his new poetry collection\, Somebody Else Sold the World\, for the LAUNCH EVENT.  Matejka will be in conversation with award winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil and award winning Washington University alum and Slam Poet Paul Tran.  Join us on our Facebook Live page and order a copy of Somebody Else Sold the World from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdrian Matejka\n\n\n\nAdrian Matejka’s most recent collection of poetry is Map to the Stars. His other books are The Big Smoke\, which was the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a finalist for both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize; Mixology\, which was selected for the National Poetry Series; and The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books\, 2003)\, winner of the New York / New England Award. Among Matejka’s other honors are fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Lannan Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and United States Artists. He served as Poet Laureate of the state of Indiana in 2018-19 and lives in Indianapolis\, Indiana. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAimee Nezhukumatathil\n\n\n\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poems\, including\, most recently\, Oceanic\, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Other awards for her writing include fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Mississippi Arts Council\, and MacDowell. Her writing appears in Poetry\, the New York Times Magazine\, ESPN\, and Tin House. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Tran\n\n\n\nPaul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection\, All the Flowers Kneeling\, forthcoming from Penguin Poets in February 2022. Their work appears in The New Yorker\, The Nation\, Best American Poetry\, and elsewhere\, including the Lionsgate movie Love Beats Rhymes. A recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts\, Paul is currently a Visiting Faculty in Poetry at Pacific University MFA in Writing and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/adrian-matejka-somebody-else-sold-world/
LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point Online: Noelia Cerna\, Stefene Russell & Raphael Maurice
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\nNoelia Cerna\n\n\n\nNoelia Cerna is a first generation immigrant from Costa Rica and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing from Westminster College. She is a poetry reader and feedback editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, an assistant poetry editor for Borderlands Texas Poetry Review\, an associate editor for Sibling Rivalry Press\, an editor for Nomadic Press\, a poetry editor for Patchwork Lit Magazine\, a writing mentor and a recent recipient of the L’Engle-Rahman Prize for Mentorship for Pen America’s Prison Writing Program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStefene Russell\n\n\n\nStefene Russell is the author of Inferna (Intagliata Press\, 2013)\, The Possum Codex (Otis Nebula\, 2015) and 47 Incantatory Essays (Spartan Press\, 2019). She was also the 2018 Laumeier Sculpture Park Poet-in-Residence. Find her online at stefenerussell.com\, Twitter (@voltarine) & Instagram (@stefene7). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRaphael Maurice\n\n\n\nRaphael Maurice is a translator\, writer\, and poet. He tutors full time at East Central College\, where he also teaches. His forthcoming book\, Against Music\, is out on Spartan Press. He is the author of The Idiot’s Calendar (Spartan Press).
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-online-jun-2021/
LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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