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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
DESCRIPTION:Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Raphael Maurice for the October Sunday Workshop! This will be a traditional / revision workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Sunday\, October 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: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: October 11\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAPHAEL MAURICE is the author of The Idiot’s Calendar and Against Music (Spartan Press). He is a widely published author and poet. He lives in Washington\, MO with his wife and two children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-october-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Registration Deadline
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Raphael Maurice
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Raphael Maurice for the October Sunday Workshop! This will be a traditional / revision workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nSubmissions due by Sunday\, October 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: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: October 11\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAPHAEL MAURICE is the author of The Idiot’s Calendar and Against Music (Spartan Press). He is a widely published author and poet. He lives in Washington\, MO with his wife and two children. \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 Sunday Workshop series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-october-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Jill Mceldowney & Ariana Yeatts-Lonske
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\nPoetry at the Point welcomes poets Jill Mceldowney & Ariana Yeatts-Lonske \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJILL MCELDOWNEY is the author of the full-length collections ALYDAR (YesYes Books) and Otherlight (YesYes Books)\, winner of a North American Book Award. She is a founder and editor of Madhouse Press. She is a recipient of a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Her previously published work can be found in publications such as The Academy of American Poets\, Prairie Schooner\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Frontier\, Muzzle\, and other notable publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nARIANA YEATTS-LONSKE was raised in the suburbs of D.C. where she climbed cherry blossom trees to read in their branches. She now lives in St Louis and works as a chronic illness coach\, supporting people affected by POTS\, mast cell disease\, and Long Covid. Her writing has won an Academy of American Poets Prize\, and she was recently short-listed by Only Poems for their Poet of the Year Award. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets\, Frontier Poetry\, december\, and elsewhere. When she is not writing\, Ariana enjoys reading graphic novels\, making hyperspecific playlists for friends\, and handing out her own pamphlets to the evangelists who knock on her door. \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 Poetry at the Point series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-october-2026/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Poemtober: Halloween Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to partner with Inktober this year to bring you Poemtober. In conjunction with Poemtober\, Saint Louis Poetry Center invites you to a special Halloween open mic! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm.Reading begins at 7:00pmCostumes encouraged \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE PARTY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome share your Poemtober poems at our Halloween open mic\, and bring your friends! Featuring: \n\n\n\n\nPoemtober Open Mic\n\n\n\nMusic and Costumes\n\n\n\nSnacks & Cash Bar\n\n\n\n\nYou do not need to participate in the open mic to attend the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT POEMTOBER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEach day throughout October\, we post a new word prompt to our social media channels. Use that word to inspire your writing\, and then come share your work at this community reading. We are here to support and encourage writers. We hope this project helps us all shift from that summertime haze into a place of creative generation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poemtober-halloween-open-mic-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Submissions Due
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our November Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Lisa Low for the November Sunday Workshop! This will be a traditional / revision 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 Sunday\, November 8\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: November 8\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLISA LOW is the author of Replica (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2026) and the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYes Books\, 2023). She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize\, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Ecotone\, The Massachusetts Review\, Poetry\, The Southern Review\, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland\, she lives in Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-submissions-due-november-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Registration Deadline
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Lisa Low
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our November Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Lisa Low for the November Sunday Workshop! This will be a traditional / revision 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 Sunday\, November 8\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: November 8\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLISA LOW is the author of Replica (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2026) and the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYes Books\, 2023). She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize\, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Ecotone\, The Massachusetts Review\, Poetry\, The Southern Review\, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland\, she lives in Chicago. \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 Sunday Workshop series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-november-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Lisa Low & Jill Mceldowney
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Lisa Low and Jill Mceldowney 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\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREPLICA \n\n\n\nStand-up comedy\, a celebrity non-apology\, observations of racism\, and the slipperiness of nostalgia underpin Replica. In poignant\, witty poems\, Lisa Low navigates the tensions of solidarity and hostility in white spaces as she sets out to write differently about race. \n\n\n\n“The problem of being with a white man is also a problem of writing\,” Low says in a prose poem that turns writing about identity on its head. She peers in from outside the poem\, as if through an open ceiling. The poem itself becomes a site of investigation—a counterpoint to constricting narratives about Asian American identity—reimagined as a dollhouse\, a stage with props\, an image the speaker wears like a bodysuit. Replica asks what it means to represent yourself and your experiences in a world where you are indistinguishable from others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOTHERLIGHT \n\n\n\n“Jill Mceldowney’s Otherlight plunges us into the rarefied limbo of grief. Suspended in time\, in action\, in ice\, its speaker is halfway out the door of this world-is half-turned to follow the beloved who hovers\, conjured\, just at the edges of these pages. Otherlight‘s iconoclasm is arresting and terrifying; it rejects the advances of a world that refuses to understand that sometimes the past is a mine we never want to be hauled from. In these lyrical\, annihilating poems\, Mceldowney shows us how a life can be utterly derailed by a death; how even after a lightning-struck past\, choosing to stay alive can be the biggest risk of all.” \n\n\n\n– Claire Wahmanholm\, author of Meltwater and Wilder \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLISA LOW is the author of Replica (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2026) and the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYes Books\, 2023). She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize\, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Ecotone\, The Massachusetts Review\, Poetry\, The Southern Review\, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland\, she lives in Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJILL MCELDOWNEY is the author of the full-length collections ALYDAR (YesYes Books) and Otherlight (YesYes Books)\, winner of a North American Book Award. She is a founder and editor of Madhouse Press. She is a recipient of a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Her previously published work can be found in publications such as The Academy of American Poets\, Prairie Schooner\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Frontier\, Muzzle\, and other notable publications. \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-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Derrick Austin for the February Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGENERATIVE WORKSHOP \n\n\n\nDetails forthcoming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, February 10\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: February 10\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDERRICK AUSTIN is a poet and art writer. He is the author of three poetry collections: This Elegance (Boa Editions 2026); Tenderness (Boa Editions\, 2021)\, winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award; and Trouble the Water (Boa Editions\, 2016)\, selected by Mary Szybist for the A. Poulin Jr\, Poetry Prize. He has had poems and essays commissioned by The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\, The New Museum\, Craft Contemporary\, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts\, The Brick (formerly LAXART)\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles\, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He lives in Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-february-2027/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Registration Deadline
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Derrick Austin
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our February Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Derrick Austin for the February Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGENERATIVE WORKSHOP \n\n\n\nDetails forthcoming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, February 10\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: February 10\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDERRICK AUSTIN is a poet and art writer. He is the author of three poetry collections: This Elegance (Boa Editions 2026); Tenderness (Boa Editions\, 2021)\, winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award; and Trouble the Water (Boa Editions\, 2016)\, selected by Mary Szybist for the A. Poulin Jr\, Poetry Prize. He has had poems and essays commissioned by The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\, The New Museum\, Craft Contemporary\, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts\, The Brick (formerly LAXART)\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles\, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He lives in Chicago. \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 Sunday Workshop series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-february-2027/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Derrick Austin & Janice Harrington
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Derrick Austin and Janice Harrington 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\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS ELEGANCE \n\n\n\nInterweaving the sacred and the erotic\, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (“sacred conversation”)\, a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here\, artists\, thinkers\, and pop icons commune in a similar sacred dialogue—Kathleen Collins\, André Leon Talley\, Richmond Barthé\, Lyle Ashton Harris\, Juan de Pareja\, Janelle Monáe\, Symone\, and others appear as guiding spirits and creative kin. \n\n\n\nFor a Black\, queer person so often dislocated from time and place\, pleasure becomes an act of resistance—a grounding in the now. This Elegance is a love song—an offering to Black artistry\, a tribute to visionary lives\, and a testament to the power of beauty in even our most precarious moments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYARD SHOW \n\n\n\nBlack history\, cultural expression\, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows\, this collection of descriptive\, lyrical\, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity. \n\n\n\nHarrington’s speaker is a chronicler of yesterdays\, using the events of the past to center and advocate for a future that celebrates pleasure and self-fulfillment within Black communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDERRICK AUSTIN is a poet and art writer. He is the author of three poetry collections: This Elegance (Boa Editions 2026); Tenderness (Boa Editions\, 2021)\, winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award; and Trouble the Water (Boa Editions\, 2016)\, selected by Mary Szybist for the A. Poulin Jr\, Poetry Prize. He has had poems and essays commissioned by The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\, The New Museum\, Craft Contemporary\, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts\, The Brick (formerly LAXART)\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles\, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He lives in Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJANICE HARRINGTON is a poet and children’s book author. A librarian who harbored a secret desire to write\, in the mid-1990s Janice N. Harrington returned to an old dream of writing poetry. Every day before work\, in the early hours of the morning\, Janice wrote poem after poem\, especially about her family and memories of the South. This led to her first book of poems\, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone\, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Poetry\, and to her most recent book\, Yard Show\, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and many other recognitions. Her first children’s picture book\, Going North\, is a winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award. Her career as a children’s writer includes many picture books\, including two picture book biographies plus a popular verse novel. Janice lives in Champaign\, Illinois where she regularly visits local prairies\, Black history sites\, and any place that celebrates books. She is the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. \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-2027/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Registration Due
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our April Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Devin Johnston for the April Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry and the Senses \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore ways of writing sensory experience. By rendering particular sensations with vividness and accuracy\, we imply an entire world. Using brief excerpts from poetry as models\, we will work collaboratively\, focusing on ways of capturing tastes and smells\, in particular. We will not aim for finished poems\, but strong sensory images that might form the basis of future work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, April 14\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: April 14\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDEVIN JOHNSTON spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of eight books of poetry including Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026\, published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux in 2026. He has also published Creaturely and Other Essays\, meditations on the natural world. He works as an editor of Flood Editions\, a nonprofit publishing house\, and he teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-registration-due-april-2027/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop,Registration Deadline
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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Devin Johnston
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our April Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Devin Johnston for the April Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry and the Senses \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore ways of writing sensory experience. By rendering particular sensations with vividness and accuracy\, we imply an entire world. Using brief excerpts from poetry as models\, we will work collaboratively\, focusing on ways of capturing tastes and smells\, in particular. We will not aim for finished poems\, but strong sensory images that might form the basis of future work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, April 14\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: April 14\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDEVIN JOHNSTON spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of eight books of poetry including Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026\, published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux in 2026. He has also published Creaturely and Other Essays\, meditations on the natural world. He works as an editor of Flood Editions\, a nonprofit publishing house\, and he teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri. \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 Sunday Workshop series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-april-2027/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Devin Johnston & Justin Danzy
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Devin Johnston and Justin Danzy 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\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBRIGHT THORN: POEMS 2000-2026 \n\n\n\nThe selected poems of Devin Johnston\, a poet who can “change the way you breathe” (Maureen N. McLane). Bright Thorn\, distilling Devin Johnston’s work across a quarter century and seven books\, offers an alternative to our frenzied moment through the calm measured feeling and formal intelligence of his verse. Historical\, philosophical\, closely observational\, and rooted evenly in the deep poetic past and the daily rhythms of American life\, these poems open the world to imaginative scrutiny. Johnston is a chronicler in a Yeatsian sense\, whose eye\, cast discerningly over the landscape\, is affectionate yet icily clear. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRUN IN SUCH A WAY \n\n\n\nA poet’s candid and probing exploration of faith\, Blackness\, and masculinity. With poems that closely examine familial bonds and heritage\, biblical teachings\, a shifting understanding of home\, and the violence of toxic masculinity\, Justin Danzy’s Run in Such a Way sits at the crossroads of religion\, race\, gender\, and more. A collection about pursuit\, tracking the narrative of its speaker’s journey toward a deeper understanding of himself and of his community as he moves from child to man\, the book wrestles with the way an identity is constructed\, deconstructed\, and reconstructed again throughout one’s life. Playful and sincere in equal measure\, Danzy’s command of the line carries us through as we travel with the speaker to the precipice of belief. Danzy’s lyrical voice and fealty to his people pays homage to the world that made him\, and considers all that the speaker of this tremendous debut has—both wisely and foolishly—run toward and away from in the search for truth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDEVIN JOHNSTON spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of eight books of poetry including Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026\, published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux in 2026. He has also published Creaturely and Other Essays\, meditations on the natural world. He works as an editor of Flood Editions\, a nonprofit publishing house\, and he teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJUSTIN DANZY is a poet and educator from Southfield\, Michigan\, and the author of Run in such a way (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press)\, which Rachel Eliza Griffiths described as “a vision of snare\, thorn\, tongue\, and the endless rhythms through which language skims its wings across the darkened faces of history\, memory\, and body.” He is a Cave Canem Fellow\, the 2019 Gregory Padlo Fellow at the Frost Place\, winner of New England Review’s Award for Emerging Writers\, a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee\, and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize. Danzy’s poems can be found in publications such as Pleiades: Literature in Context\, Poetry\, New England Review\, Missouri Review\, and Obsidian. He lives in St. Louis\, Missouri and teaches English at St. Louis University High School. \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-2027/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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