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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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