9 a.m. - noon | VerbQuake Youth Poetry Summit @ St. Louis Community College at Forest Park Student Center, Free 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | St. Louis Youth Poet Laureate ceremony @ University City Library, Free 9 p.m. - midnight | UrbPoetry at Legacy Bar & Grill, $5

10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Unity Community Poets' Convening @ SLU 10:30 a.m. | SLPC Poetry Workshop with Travis Mossotti & Kerry James Evans @ SLU 12:30 p.m. | SLPC Poetry Workshop with Alison C. Rollins @ SLU    

4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Borderland Preliminary in Old North STL, Free 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. | Borderland Regional Poetry Slam Final @ UrbArts, $10

1 p.m. | Missouri Poet Laureate reading 3 p.m. | Quincy Troupe keynote address

Poets include Liz Hughes Wiley, Lylanne Musselman and Amy Holman