BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Saint Louis Poetry Center - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Saint Louis Poetry Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Saint Louis Poetry Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240606T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240606T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20240606T181055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T181057Z UID:10000552-1717696800-1717704000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Outside LitMag Issue 8 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\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 8. This special event will celebrate the talented young artists who have worked hard to make this magazine possible. Students will come together to share their work with the wider community. Many of the contributors will be performing their pieces for the first time! Copies of Issue 8 will be available for purchase at the event. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPECIAL THANKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutside Literary Magazine would not be possible without the tireless efforts of the partnering schools and classroom teachers. Thank you! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Sponsor:Margaret SchuhTeacher:Kelly Terry (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Sponsors:Chandra AlfordNicole HalamanTeacher:John Tevlin (Art)\n\n\n\n\n\nTeachers:Colette Morton (ELA)Logan Allgood (ELA)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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 URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/outside-litmag-issue-8-release/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/issue8.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240827T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240827T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20240817T193514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T000409Z UID:10000553-1724787000-1724787000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Melissa Qualls & Mark W. Kumming DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoems Out of Nowhere\n\n\n\nPoems can sneak up on us during the most banal moments of daily life. In these moments\, we are not searching for poems\, but being found by them. Mark Kumming and Melissa Qualls (both of Babler Poetry Society) will read from the poetry that has found them\, as well as engage in dialogue about creating community with other poets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending 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\nMelissa Qualls has taught in the English department at Lindenwood University since 2002 and earned her MFA in Creative Writing in 2018. She lives in Webster Groves with her husband\, two daughters\, and their two pampered cats. Her poetry explores the coexistence of pain and beauty in everyday life\, and most recently her poem “They Look So Small\, Lying There” won Second Honorable Mention at the 2024 Wednesday Club Original Poetry competition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark W. Kumming has a Masters Degree in English and taught ESL and Comp at the University level. A former RN\, he completed a career as a medical products sales rep and trainer in 2010. Mark is 72 and returned to writing poetry two years ago after a 50 year hiatus. He volunteers with Saint Louis Poetry Center and also raises money for Circle of Concern food pantry in Valley Park. He facilitates the Babler Poetry Society\, a collection of St. Louis poets who write poetry and read one another’s work. He is deeply indebted to his spouse of 47 years\, Deborah. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-august-2024/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PP2425-0827-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240915T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240915T235900 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20240905T013204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T013206Z UID:10000556-1726444740-1726444740@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Raphael Maurice will take place on September 22\, 2024. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due September 15\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAPHAEL MAURICE was born and raised in Missouri. He is the author of The Idiot’s Calendar and Without Music (both on Spartan Press). He’s written for numerous journals and outlets\, and he is co-editor at U City Review.  URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-september-2024/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SW2425-0915-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240915T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240915T235900 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20240905T025539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T025636Z UID:10000557-1726444740-1726444740@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry in the Woods: Application Deadline DESCRIPTION:Applications for the October 2024 Poetry in the Woods Workshop are open through September 15. Work on your poetry with award-winning faculty in inspiring outdoor locations around St. Louis! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry in the Woods takes place on October 4\, 5 & 6 at Castlewood State Park\, Forest Park\, Endangered Wolf Center\, & Wildlife Rescue Center. 2024 faculty includes James Kimbrell\, Jason Vasser-Elong\, Elizabeth Hoover\, Kerry James Evans\, Andrea Scarpino and Shane Seely. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAPPLICATION INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApplication takes only a minute or two and is free!Financial aid and scholarships available.Only 20 seats available. \n\n\n\nEarly submission is recommended. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW IN 2024 \n\n\n\n\nWorking on a Chapbook or a section of a larger book? PITW participants in 2024 have the option to get focused feedback from faculty on up to 10 pages of poetry.\n\n\n\nA mix of new and returning faculty members.\n\n\n\nSmall group workshop sessions with at least two faculty members per six participants.\n\n\n\nNew locations including: Forest Park\, Castlewood State Park\, and Wildlife Rescue Center.\n\n\n\nMore opportunities for organic interaction for faculty and participants.\n\n\n\nNew hiking locations! Enhanced rideshare options! And a campfire poetry reading/wolf howl!​\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE FACULTY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJAMES KIMBRELL directs the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University. His poems have appeared in anthologies including the Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, His most recent collection is Smote (2015\, Sarabande Books) and his forthcoming collection The Law of Truly Large Numbers is due out with the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJASON VASSER-ELONG is a professor of English and African American Studies in the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL)\, where he recently earned a Doctorate of Education with a focus in Educational Practice. He is an applied – anthropologist with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology with a concentration in African Diaspora studies. He is the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press\, 2018)\, a collection of poetry that analyzes identity in a post-colonial context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nELIZABETH HOOVER is an Assistant Professor at Webster University in Saint Louis where she teaches classes like Archival Poetics\, Genderqueer Frankenstein\, and LGBTQ+ Literature. She is a poet\, essayist\, and critic. Her first collection of poetry\, the archive is all in present tense\, received the 2021 Barrow Street Book Prize and her creative nonfiction has appeared in Southeast Review\, North American Review\, and StoryQuarterly. The recipient of the 2024 Pat Holt Prize for Critical Art Writing from Lambda Literary\, Elizabeth has writing about art\, film\, and books for such publications as Paper\, The Art Newspaper\, and the Washington Post. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKERRY JAMES EVANS is a professor in the MFA program at Georgia College & State University and serves as the poetry editor for Arts & Letters. He is the author of Bangalore (Copper Canyon)\, a Lannan Literary Selection. He earned a PhD in English from Florida State University\, an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale\, and a BA in English from Missouri State University. His forthcoming collection\, Nine Persimmons\, is due out in 2026 with University of Nebraska Press under its imprint\, The Backwaters Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nANDREA SCARPINO has published the poetry collections Once Upon Wing Lake\, What the Willow Said as it Fell\, and Once\, Then\, and the co-edited anthology Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice. She received a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University\, and an MFA from The Ohio State University. She is also co-editor of Nine Mile Magazine and served as Poet Laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 2015-2017. She teaches at St. Louis University High School.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHANE SEELY directs the MFA program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poems have appeared in journals nationwide\, including The Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Notre Dame Review\, and Antioch Review\, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He is the author of three previous books of poetry\, The First Echo (LSU Press\, 2019)\, The Surface of the Lit World (Ohio University Press\, 2015 – Winner of the Hollis Summer Poetry Prize) and The Snowbound House (Anhinga Press\, 2008 – Winner of the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-in-the-woods-2024-application-deadline/ CATEGORIES:Application Deadline,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PitW2425-0915-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240922T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240922T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20240905T012630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T162454Z UID:10000555-1727011800-1727011800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Raphael Maurice DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due September 20\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: September 20\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAPHAEL MAURICE was born and raised in Missouri. He is the author of The Idiot’s Calendar and Against Music (both on Spartan Press). He’s written for numerous journals and outlets\, and he is co-editor at U City Review.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-september-2024/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SW2425-0922-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240923T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240923T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20240904T194255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T194449Z UID:10000554-1727118000-1727118000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Niki Herd & Travis Mossotti 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\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Niki Herd and Travis Mossotti for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collections The Stuff of Hollywood (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and The Language of Shedding Skin (Main Street Rag\, 2011)\, the chapbook\, don’t you weep\, and coedited with Meg Day Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry\, essays\, and criticism appear in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets\, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day)\, Poetry Daily\, New England Review\, Salon\, and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky\, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell\, Ucross\, Bread Loaf\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, the Newberry Library\, and Cave Canem. Herd has taught at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Lancaster\, PA where she’s an assistant professor at Franklin & Marshall College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRAVIS MOSSOTTI‘s three previous collections are About the Dead\, Field Study\, and Narcissus Americana. His fourth collection\, Racecar Jesus\, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize (Black Spring Press Group UK\, 2023). Mossotti’s fifth collection\, Apocryphal Genesis\, won the Alma Book Award (Saturnalia Books\, 2024). He recently won the 2023 Wales Poetry Award\, and he currently serves as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by: URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-september-2024/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/OR2425-0923-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20241010T165406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T172935Z UID:10000559-1729105200-1729105200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Ross Gay DESCRIPTION:Reading from The Book of (More) Delights and Inciting Joy: Essays\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a celebration with award-winning and best-selling author Ross Gay for the paperback releases of The Book of (More) Delights and Inciting Joy.  We are delighted to welcome Ross Gay back to St. Louis for a discussion and book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS \n\n\n\nIn this second intimate collection of short\, lyrical\, genre-defying essays\, again written daily over a year\, one of America’s most original and observant voices celebrates the ordinary\, helping us see our extraordinary world anew. Among Ross Gay’s funny\, poetic\, philosophical delights: bonding with a pipsqueak of a puppy\, observing how his mother bakes eighteen kinds of cookies before her grandchildren arrive\, noticing the tenderness he feels when he sees an adult wearing braces\, and the recognition that for him the preamble is often more delightful than the thing itself: “Putting on your socks and tying up your shoes\, and\, if you’re the type\, filling up your water bottle and doing some light stretching\, but skipping the walk entirely.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINCITING JOY \n\n\n\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet and bestselling author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other\, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection and expand it. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space\, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? Full of energy\, curiosity\, and compassion\, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSS GAY is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry\, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022\, and his newest collection\, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-ross-gay/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LBB2425-1016-900x300-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241022T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241022T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20241010T170744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T170746Z UID:10000561-1729625400-1729625400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Myrtie Reilly & Matthew Freeman DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo close out our 2024 readings focusing on community\, our friends at Re:Born (a monthly poetry reading at the Fortune Teller Bar) will be joining us! Matthew Freeman will read his own poems and his co-host Myrtie Reilly will read the work of other poets before discussing the process of crafting a regular poetry event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMyrtie Reilly co-curates and hosts RE:BORN\, a monthly poetry reading and open mic event (@reborn.poetry.stl). By day\, she passionately serves as a teacher and child advocate. Myrtie proudly calls St. Louis City home and embraces friendship with all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Freeman is the author of seven books of poems\, most recently I Think I’d Rather Roar (Cerasus Poetry). He holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-St Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-october-2024/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PP2425-1022-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T235900 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20241011T143610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241019T152805Z UID:10000565-1729727940-1729727940@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:The Sunday Workshop with Jason Vasser-Elong will take place on October 27\, 2024. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due October 23\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJASON VASSER-ELONG is a professor of English and African American Studies in the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL)\, where he recently earned a Doctorate of Education with a focus in Educational Practice. He is an applied – anthropologist with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology with a concentration in African Diaspora studies. He is the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press\, 2018)\, a collection of poetry that analyzes identity in a post-colonial context. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-october-2024/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SW2425-1020-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241024T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20241010T174003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T184734Z UID:10000563-1729792800-1729792800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:A Night of Poetry featuring JoAnna Novak\, Eileen G'Sell & Safa Khatib DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we welcome three fantastic local poets JoAnna Novak\, Eileen G’Sell\, and Safa Khatib to share their new work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDOMESTIREXIA: POEMSby JoAnna Novak \n\n\n\nHome can be a space of both resistance and discomfort that one desires or takes pleasure in enjoying. Rote notions of home and the domestic are reimagined in these poems as estranging\, excessive\, and populated by unknowable characters. Exploring themes of family\, sacrifice\, disease\, death\, money\, cooking\, romance\, sex\, art\, and the visceral qualities of the everyday\, the poems twist themselves into binds for the reader to undo or surrender to. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFRANCOFILAMENTSby Eileen G’Sell \n\n\n\nVacillating between prose and verse\, Francofilaments presents a varied sojourn through a woman’s trials and tribulations as reimagined\, and filtered through\, French culture and film. Several poems are based on\, or excerpt from\, interviews G’Sell conducted with French or French-speaking actors and filmmakers—including Juliette Binoche\, Celine Sciamma\, and Isabelle Huppert—while others excerpt from an extensive list of reviews and essays published on Francophone cinema. In investigating Francophilia\, G’Sell likewise plumbs the depths of national\, gendered\, and racial identity. While her background as a critic informs many of these poems\, the collection is also based in part on her experience as a single woman in her thirties—chronicling romantic (mis)adventures as well as orbiting more serious themes around sexuality\, mortality\, and pregnancy loss. This volume is a cinematic excavation of interiority—the author’s\, but also that which we see and hear onscreen.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoAnna Novak‘s memoir Contradiction Days was published by Catapult in July 2023. Her short story collection Meaningful Work won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is the author of the novel I Must Have You and three books of poetry: New Life; Abeyance\, North America; and Noirmania. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and other publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Poetry\, Oversound\, Hyperallergic\, The Baffler\, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2023\, she received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism. Her second volume of poetry\, Francofilaments\, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in late 2024; in 2025\, her first nonfiction book\, Lipstick\, will be published as part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSafa Khatib is a writer and teacher living in St. Louis. She is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection A Dress of Locusts (Bloomsbury 2025). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-joanna-novak-eileen-gsell-safa-khatib/ LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LBB2425-1024-900x300-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241027T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241027T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20241010T190311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241019T152829Z UID:10000567-1730035800-1730035800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Jason Vasser-Elong DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due October 23\, 2024\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: October 23\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJASON VASSER-ELONG is a professor of English and African American Studies in the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL)\, where he recently earned a Doctorate of Education with a focus in Educational Practice. He is an applied – anthropologist with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology with a concentration in African Diaspora studies. He is the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press\, 2018)\, a collection of poetry that analyzes identity in a post-colonial context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-october-2024/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SW2425-1027-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241113T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241113T235900 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20241104T174631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T233856Z UID:10000571-1731542340-1731542340@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our November Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Eduardo C. Corral for the November Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be a generative workshop focused on revision. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, November 13\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this special event\n\n\n\nPoets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time\n\n\n\nThose registering are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRethinking Revision: Five Strategies to Charge Language and Form \n\n\n\nPlease bring two poems you would like to revise to workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEDUARDO C. CORRAL is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine and Slow Lightning\, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-november-2024/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SW2425-1113-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241117T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241117T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20241104T173624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T175019Z UID:10000570-1731850200-1731850200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Eduardo C. Corral DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our November Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Eduardo C. Corral for the November Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be a generative workshop focused on revision. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, November 13\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this special event\n\n\n\nPoets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time\n\n\n\nThose registering are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 13\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRethinking Revision: Five Strategies to Charge Language and Form \n\n\n\nPlease bring two poems you would like to revise to workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEDUARDO C. CORRAL is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine and Slow Lightning\, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-november-2024/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SW2425-1117-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20241028T193804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T183017Z UID:10000568-1731956400-1731956400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Eduardo C. Corral & Steven D. Schroeder DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Eduardo C. Corral and Steven D. Schroeder for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEDUARDO C. CORRAL is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine and Slow Lightning\, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTEVEN D. SCHROEDER is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently Wikipedia Apocalyptica. His second\, The Royal Nonesuch\, won the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University. His poetry is available from New England Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Copper Nickel\, The Rumpus\, and Diagram\, and has also been featured in city parks\, public transportation\, and business waiting rooms. He edits the online poetry journal $ (www.poetrycurrency.com) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by: URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-november-2024/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OR2425-1118-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241119T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20241104T185438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T185439Z UID:10000572-1732042800-1732042800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka DESCRIPTION:Reading from A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we welcome Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka\, translators for A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi. This is the first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English. Join award winning poet\, translator\, and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis Mary Jo Bang with professor and poet Yuki Tanaka for their collaborative translation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA KISS FOR THE ABSOLUTE: SELECTED POEMS OF SHUZO TAKIGUCHI \n\n\n\nThe first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English \n\n\n\nIn 1923\, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake\, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later\, he was hit by a second earthquake–French Surrealism. Takiguchi (1903-1979) began to write surrealist poems\, translate surrealist writers\, curate exhibitions of surrealist art\, write art criticism\, and\, later\, paint\, helping introduce Surrealism to Japan. He eventually became a major Japanese artistic and cultural figure whose collected works number fourteen volumes. In A Kiss for the Absolute\, Mary Jo Bang\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and her fellow poet and translator Yuki Tanaka present the first collection in English of Takiguchi’s ingenious\, playful\, and erotic poems\, complete with an introduction and the original Japanese texts on facing pages. Takiguchi’s obvious interest in style is perfectly wed to his daredevil rhetorical antics. His poems read as if they could have been written today\, yet they are so original that they couldn’t have been written by anyone else. Bang and Tanaka’s skillful\, colloquial translations offer English readers a long-overdue introduction to this important poet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS & TRANSLATORS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG is the author of nine books of poems—including Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book\, A Film in Which I Play Everyone (Graywolf Press 2023)\, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award\, a PEN Voelcker Award\, and the Heartland Booksellers Award. She’s published translations of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, and Purgatorio. Her translation of Paradiso is forthcoming in July 2025. She is also the translator of Colonies of Paradise: Poems by Matthias Göritz\, and co-translator\, with Yuki Tanaka\, of A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi—forthcoming from Princeton University Press in November 2024. She’s been the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. She is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Yamaguchi\, Japan\, YUKI TANAKA is the author of a debut poetry collection\, Chronicle of Drifting\, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in April 2025. His poems have appeared in The Nation\, The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in English from Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in Tokyo and teaches at Hosei University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-mary-jo-bang-yuki-tanaka/ LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/LBB2425-1119-900x300-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T235900 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250114T224842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T224843Z UID:10000574-1737590340-1737590340@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:To kick off 2025\, the Sunday Workshop with Shane Seely will take place on January 26\, 2025. Poetry submissions for the workshop are due by 11:59 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Wednesday\, January 22\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHANE SEELY directs the MFA program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poems have appeared in journals nationwide\, including The Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Notre Dame Review\, and Antioch Review\, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He is the author of three previous books of poetry\, The First Echo (LSU Press\, 2019)\, The Surface of the Lit World (Ohio University Press\, 2015 – Winner of the Hollis Summer Poetry Prize) and The Snowbound House (Anhinga Press\, 2008 – Winner of the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry). URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-january-2025/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SW2425-0122-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250126T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250126T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250114T230014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T230016Z UID:10000575-1737898200-1737898200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Shane Seely DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due January 22\, 2025\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: January 22\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHANE SEELY directs the MFA program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poems have appeared in journals nationwide\, including The Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Notre Dame Review\, and Antioch Review\, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He is the author of three previous books of poetry\, The First Echo (LSU Press\, 2019)\, The Surface of the Lit World (Ohio University Press\, 2015 – Winner of the Hollis Summer Poetry Prize) and The Snowbound House (Anhinga Press\, 2008 – Winner of the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-january-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SW2425-0126-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250128T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250128T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250114T214822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250124T214906Z UID:10000573-1738092600-1738092600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jennifer Whalen & Sebastián Páramo DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe kick off 2025 with poets Jennifer Whalen & Sebastián Páramo! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Whalen (she/her) is a poet & educator from the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati\, Ohio area. She is the author of the poetry collection Eveningful\, which was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her poems can be found in Gulf Coast\, Denver Quarterly\, Fourteen Hills\, Sixth Finch\, Grist\, The Boiler\, & elsewhere. She previously served as writer-in-residence at Texas State University’s Clark House & currently teaches English at the University of Illinois Springfield. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebastián Páramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books\, 2023) and was named a finalist for the 2023 Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. His poems have recently appeared in AGNI\, Poetry Northwest\, Prairie Schooner\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. His work has received fellowships and support from the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at UT-Austin\, CantoMundo\, among others. He is the founding editor of The Boiler and is a Lecturer at Southern Methodist University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-january-2025/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PP2425-0128-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250211T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250211T235900 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250203T214941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T215111Z UID:10000578-1739318340-1739318340@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Jacqui Germain and Alison C. Rollins for the February Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese two-hour workshops will run concurrently\, each led by one of the visiting poets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: these workshops are limited to 12 participants each. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Tuesday\, February 11\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email* poem to:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.*Please indicate which workshop (Jacqui Germain or Alison C. Rollins) you would like to attend. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACQUI GERMAIN is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis\, Missouri. Her first full-length poetry collection\, Bittering the Wound\, was selected by Douglas Kearney for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and was awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. She’s the recipient of a journalism fellowship from the Economic Security Project and Teen Vogue\, and has written for The Nation\, The New York Times\, Teen Vogue\, The Guardian\, In These Times Magazine\, and more. Germain is also the recipient of poetry fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission\, Jack Jones Literary Arts\, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop\, and more. Her first poetry chapbook\, When the Ghosts Come Ashore\, was published by Button Poetry in 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALISON C. ROLLINS was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021\, her essay “Dispatch from the Racial Mountain” was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work\, across genres\, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Iowa Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow\, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018\, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and in 2020\, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and the debut poetry collection\, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press\, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-february-2025/ CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SW2425-0211-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250216T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250216T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250203T213719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T232234Z UID:10000577-1739712600-1739712600@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Jacqui Germain & Alison C. Rollins DESCRIPTION:These workshops will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Jacqui Germain and Alison C. Rollins for the February Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese two-hour workshops will run concurrently\, each led by one of the visiting poets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: these workshops are limited to 12 participants each. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due February 11\, 2025\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email poem to*:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please indicate which workshop (Jacqui Germain or Alison C. Rollins) you would like to attend.*Please attach poem as a separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 11\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACQUI GERMAIN is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis\, Missouri. Her first full-length poetry collection\, Bittering the Wound\, was selected by Douglas Kearney for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and was awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. She’s the recipient of a journalism fellowship from the Economic Security Project and Teen Vogue\, and has written for The Nation\, The New York Times\, Teen Vogue\, The Guardian\, In These Times Magazine\, and more. Germain is also the recipient of poetry fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission\, Jack Jones Literary Arts\, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop\, and more. Her first poetry chapbook\, When the Ghosts Come Ashore\, was published by Button Poetry in 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALISON C. ROLLINS was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021\, her essay “Dispatch from the Racial Mountain” was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work\, across genres\, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Iowa Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow\, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018\, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and in 2020\, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and the debut poetry collection\, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press\, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-february-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/OR2425-0217-900x300-2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250217T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250203T183056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250217T233756Z UID:10000576-1739818800-1739818800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Jacqui Germain & Alison C. Rollins DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Jacqui Germain and Alison C. Rollins for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACQUI GERMAIN is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis\, Missouri. Her first full-length poetry collection\, Bittering the Wound\, was selected by Douglas Kearney for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and was awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. She’s the recipient of a journalism fellowship from the Economic Security Project and Teen Vogue\, and has written for The Nation\, The New York Times\, Teen Vogue\, The Guardian\, In These Times Magazine\, and more. Germain is also the recipient of poetry fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission\, Jack Jones Literary Arts\, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop\, and more. Her first poetry chapbook\, When the Ghosts Come Ashore\, was published by Button Poetry in 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALISON C. ROLLINS was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021\, her essay “Dispatch from the Racial Mountain” was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work\, across genres\, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Iowa Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow\, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018\, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and in 2020\, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024) and the debut poetry collection\, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press\, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by: URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-february-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/OR2425-0217-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250302T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250302T163000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250227T215916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T215918Z UID:10000584-1740933000-1740933000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Oksana Maksymchuk DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Lauris Veips\, a poet and translator from Latvia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a reading and conversation with Oksana Maksymchuk\, an award-winning bilingual Ukrainian American poet\, scholar\, and translator.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHer debut English-language poetry collection Still City: Diary of an Invasion (Pittsburgh University Press/Carcanet) offers an immersive chronicle of war\, originating in the months leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaksymchuk will be in conversation with Lauris Veips\, a poet and translator from Latvia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTILL CITY: DIARY OF AN INVASION \n\n\n\nNamed as One of Financial Times‘s Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024\, the poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality\, temporality\, mortality\, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet’s homeland\, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle\, a chorus\, and a collage\, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality\, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources\, including social media posts\, the news reports\, witness accounts\, recorded oral histories\, photographs\, drone video footage\, intercepted communication\, and official documents\, making sense of the transformations that war effects in individuals\, families\, and communities. Now ecstatic\, now cathartic\, these poems shine a light on survival\, mourning\, and hope through moments of terror and awe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOKSANA MAKSYMCHUK is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet\, scholar\, and translator. She is the author of poetry collections Xenia and Lovy in the Ukrainian. She coedited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine\, an anthology of contemporary poetry\, and has published a few single-author volumes of translations. Born and raised in Lviv\, Ukraine\, she has also lived in Chicago\, Philadelphia\, Budapest\, Berlin\, Warsaw\, and Fayetteville\, Arkansas. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLAURIS VEIPS is a poet and translator from Latvia. His debut poetry collection\, Interesting Days\, was nominated for the Annual Latvian Literature Award in 2021. His translations into Latvian include works by Archilochus\, Anne Carson\, John Donne\, and the evening’s guest Oksana Maksymchuk. Lauris is a 2nd-year PhD student in the Comparative Literature and Thought program at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-oksana-maksymchuk/ LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/LBB2425-0302-900x300-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250303T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250303T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250227T225318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T225350Z UID:10000585-1741028400-1741028400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry and Conflict: Pádraig Ó Tuama DESCRIPTION:a public lecture presented by WashU & the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Emerson Auditorium in Knight Hall at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a public lecture with Pádraig Ó Tuama\, poet and theologian whose work centers around themes of language\, power\, conflict\, and religion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by WashU & the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nEmerson Auditorium offers open seating\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nReception with speaker immediately following his talk\n\n\n\nRSVP / reservation is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP / RESERVATION INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets are not required\n\n\n\nSeating will be “first come\, first served”\n\n\n\nRegistration does not guarantee a seat\n\n\n\nPlease register at rap@wustl.edu or 314-935-9345\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE PUBLIC LECTURE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOETRY AND CONFLICT \n\n\n\nPoetry is an art that has always concerned itself with the questions of life: what’s growing\, what’s not\, what’s thriving\, what’s not\, what’s being stifled\, what’s being fed. The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics is delighted to host Pádraig Ó Tuama as he explores dynamics of conflict\, language\, rhyme\, description\, and resolution for this engaging evening at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA is a poet\, theologian\, conflict resolution mediator\, and the author of Poetry Unbound: 44 Poems On Being Together (2025)\, Kitchen Hymns (2025)\, Being Here: Prayers for Curiosity\, Justice\, and Love (2024)\, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (2022)\, Feed the Beast (2022)\, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community (2017)\, In the Shelter (2015)\, Sorry for your Troubles (2013)\, and Readings from the Books of Exile (2012)\, which was longlisted for the 2013 Polari First Book Prize. \n\n\n\nA freelance artist\, one of Ó Tuama’s projects is poet in residence with the Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Center at Columbia University. Pádraig Ó Tuama holds a BA Div validated by the Pontifical College of Maynooth\, an MTh from Queen’s University Belfast and recently received a PhD in Theology through Creative Practice at the University of Glasgow exploring poetry\, Irishness\, and religion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARKING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisitor parking is available on the fourth level of Millbrook Garage or in the Danforth University Center (DUC) underground garage. Pull a ticket at the gate when you enter. Parking is free in yellow spaces (you will be ticketed if in a red space) weekdays between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. and on weekends. For more information on parking\, visit parking.wustl.edu/parking/visitor. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-and-conflict-padraig-o-tuama/ LOCATION:Emerson Auditorium\, Knight Hall – Washington University\, 1194 Throop Dr\, Saint Louis\, Missouri\, 63130\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WASHU2425-0303-900x300-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics":MAILTO:rap@wustl.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T235900 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250221T233906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T233937Z UID:10000582-1741823940-1741823940@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due DESCRIPTION:Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Allison Funk for the March Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop focused on Virginia Woolf’s idea of “moments of being.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMoments of Being \n\n\n\nVirginia Woolf writes in her autobiographical “Sketch of the Past” of moments of being—moments of acute awareness that stand out from what she calls the “cotton wool” of daily living. For Woolf\, such exceptional instances often involve an image that surfaces unexpectedly and with great force. In this generative poetry workshop\, participants will talk about Virginia Woolf’s idea before they identify a personal “moment of being” they will start to put into words. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, March 12\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this event\n\n\n\nPoets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time\n\n\n\nThose registering are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 12\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALLISON FUNK is the author of six books of poems and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received further honors from the Poetry Society of America and the arts councils of Illinois and Delaware. Her most recent book of poems is The Visible Woman (Parlor Press\, 2021). Individual poems have appeared in Poetry\, Paris Review\, Copper Nickel\, Image\, Pleiades\, The Best American Poetry and elsewhere. She has been a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, Ragdale\, the Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat (Scotland)\, and the Dora Maar House (France). For nearly 30 years she taught Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-march-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SW2425-0312-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250316T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250316T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250221T231821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T232055Z UID:10000581-1742131800-1742131800@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Allison Funk DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Allison Funk for the March Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop focused on Virginia Woolf’s idea of “moments of being.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMoments of Being \n\n\n\nVirginia Woolf writes in her autobiographical “Sketch of the Past” of moments of being—moments of acute awareness that stand out from what she calls the “cotton wool” of daily living. For Woolf\, such exceptional instances often involve an image that surfaces unexpectedly and with great force. In this generative poetry workshop\, participants will talk about Virginia Woolf’s idea before they identify a personal “moment of being” they will start to put into words. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, March 12\n\n\n\nThis is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems\n\n\n\nNo poem submissions will be accepted for this event\n\n\n\nPoets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time\n\n\n\nThose registering are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 12\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALLISON FUNK is the author of six books of poems and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received further honors from the Poetry Society of America and the arts councils of Illinois and Delaware. Her most recent book of poems is The Visible Woman (Parlor Press\, 2021). Individual poems have appeared in Poetry\, Paris Review\, Copper Nickel\, Image\, Pleiades\, The Best American Poetry and elsewhere. She has been a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, Ragdale\, the Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat (Scotland)\, and the Dora Maar House (France). For nearly 30 years she taught Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-march-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SW2425-03-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250325T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250325T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250222T000407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T234931Z UID:10000583-1742931000-1742931000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Scott Berzon & Michael Pfeifer DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point. Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott Berzon earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of the Frank Vincent Memorial Prize\, the Meader Family Award\, and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship. Scott’s creative work has appeared in a variety of publications including Acorn\, Cream City Review\, Humana Obscura\, Poetry Midwest\, Quarter After Eight\, Southern Indiana Review\, and others. Scott lives with his family in St. Louis and works in Jewish communal settings. He serves as a poetry editor for december magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Pfeifer earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and returned to earn an M.A. in English\, studying poetry with Larry Levis. He earned an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop where he studied with Marvin Bell\, Henry Carlile\, Donald Justice and Sandra McPherson. He has published in numerous literary journals and received the 1980 St. Louis Poetry Center Chancellor’s Award\, judged by Howard Nemerov\, and the 1987 Poet Lore Ratner-Ferber Award. He stopped submitting poems for publication in 1998\, but continued writing. He has recently started to again submit work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-march-2025/ LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PP2425-0326-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250305T213223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T231600Z UID:10000586-1743620400-1743620400@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Robert Fitterman & Safa Khatib DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo inaugurate our National Poetry Month series of events\, join us for a reading with Robert Fitterman and Safa Khatib\, two poets with ties to Saint Louis whose work innovates across histories\, geographies\, and languages.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with Saint Louis University Department of English and Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCREVE COEUR \n\n\n\nRobert Fitterman’s sixteenth and most ambitious book transposes William Carlos Williams’s postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth-century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape. \n\n\n\nMirroring Paterson’s structure page-for-page\, Fitterman translates Williams’s patchwork of local news stories\, personal letters\, and found historical documents into the landscapes and mythologies of his hometown\, revisiting many of the horrific events of St. Louis and its environs on the way—the East St. Louis massacre\, the demolition of social housing projects\, military chemical testing in the inner city during the Cold War\, and more. Through a weave of verse\, archival documents\, and found language\, Creve Coeur entangles suburban sprawl with the racial violence at the root of American urbanization. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA DRESS OF LOCUSTS \n\n\n\nWoven from threads of Aramaic\, Spanish\, Ancient Greek\, Sumerian and Arabic\, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back and forth to one another. Here\, Safa Khatib journeys across the possibilities of language and self\, asking us to dwell in the thresholds between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROBERT FITTERMAN is the author of 16 books of poetry. His most recent book\, Creve Coeur\, is a long poem recently published with Winter Editions (2024). Other titles include: This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, No\, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself. (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, Nevermind (Wonder Books) and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books). He has collaborated with several visual artists\, including Serkan Ozkaya\, Nayland Blake\, Sabine Herrmann\, Natalie Czech\, Tim Davis\, and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective Collective Task www.collectivetask.org. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSAFA KHATIB is a poet\, translator\, teacher and daughter of South Indian immigrants. She is the author of the forthcoming collection A Dress of Locusts (Bloomsbury 2025). Her current projects include a book of collages provisionally titled return service and “smoke\,” a text written in collaboration with choreographer Cecil Slaughter. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals\, including Words Without Borders\, Baffler\, Kenyon Review and White Review. She is the recipient of support from the US Fulbright Program and the Stadler Center for Poetry\, among other institutions. She is currently a PhD student in the Track for International Writers in the department of Comparative Literature at Washington University in St Louis\, Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/robert-fitterman-safa-khatib/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SLU2425-0402-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T235900 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T235900 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250321T174548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T202638Z UID:10000589-1744243140-1744243140@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our April Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Rosalie Moffett for the April Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Wednesday\, April 9\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 9\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSALIE MOFFETT is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, Nervous System (Ecco\, 2019)\, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden (OSU Press\, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, POETRY Magazine\, New England Review\, and Kenyon Review\, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana\, and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-april-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Submission Deadline ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SW2425-0409-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250413T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250413T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250321T173537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T202224Z UID:10000588-1744551000-1744551000@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Rosalie Moffett DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low\, with virtual attendance options available to those who need it. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our April Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Rosalie Moffett for the April Sunday Workshop! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Wednesday\, April 9\n\n\n\nSubmit only one poem\, one page in length\n\n\n\nProvide name\, mailing address\, phone number and email address\n\n\n\nThose submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop\n\n\n\nYou do not need to submit a poem to attend\n\n\n\nIf you need to attend virtually\, please indicate this is your registration email\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email:sunday.workshop@stlouispoetrycenter.org*Please attach poem as separate Word or PDF document. We are not accepting mailed submissions at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 9\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSALIE MOFFETT is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, Nervous System (Ecco\, 2019)\, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden (OSU Press\, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, POETRY Magazine\, New England Review\, and Kenyon Review\, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana\, and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Sunday Workshop in-person at High Low. URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-april-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SW2425-0413-900x300-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250414T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250414T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T083025 CREATED:20250321T172942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T172943Z UID:10000587-1744657200-1744657200@stlouispoetrycenter.org SUMMARY:Observable Readings: erica lewis & Rosalie Moffett DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets erica lewis and Rosalie Moffett for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nerica lewis lives in San Francisco. Her books include the precipice of jupiter (2009\, with artist Mark Stephen Finein)\, camera obscura (2010\, with artist Mark Stephen Finein)\, murmur in the inventory (2013); and the box set trilogy: daryl hall is my boyfriend (2015)\, mary wants to be a superwoman (2017)\, mahogany (2023). She is currently writing a novel inspired by the murder of her maternal grandmother. She was born in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSALIE MOFFETT is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, Nervous System (Ecco\, 2019)\, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden (OSU Press\, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, POETRY Magazine\, New England Review\, and Kenyon Review\, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana\, and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by: URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-april-2025/ LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103 CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/OR2425-0417-900x300-2.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR