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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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