Join us for a luminous evening of cocktails, food and verse at our annual spring auction fundraiser! This year’s theme is Lantern Lit, with a lustrous atmosphere that harkens to poetry’s power to offer light in uncertain times. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to support our literary and outreach programs. [...]

Featuring poets Catherine Bowman and Treasure Shields Redmond

Live Here, Give Here: Support St. Louis Poetry Center for Give STL Day!

Featuring poets Jessica Freeman and Bridget McDonald, with music by Matt Freeman

Come out and hear the 2017 St. Louis Poetry Center Poetry contest winners! To encourage and promote poets and poetry, the St. Louis Poetry Center has, for the past 57 years, sponsored poetry contests that are open to a broad range of poets. The Hanks Contest focuses on Missouri writers who [...]