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Observable Readings: erica lewis & Teresa Dzieglewicz – CANCELLED

February 26 @ 7:00 pm

This reading has been cancelled & will be rescheduled for fall 2024.

We apologize for any inconvenience!

Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets erica lewis and Teresa Dzieglewicz for Observable Readings.

Books available for purchase from Left Bank Books.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Patrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Observable Readings in-person at High Low.

ABOUT THE POETS

erica 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.

TERESA DZIEGLEWICZ is a poet, educator, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute, a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and part of the founding team of Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School). Her first book of poetry Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2023. Her first children’s book, co-written with Kimimila Locke, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books in 2025. She has won a Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, the Gingko Prize, the Auburn Witness Prize, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Community of Writers at Tahoe, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Brooklyn Poets. Her poems appear in the Pushcart Prize XLII, Best New Poets, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Ninth Letter, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.

VENUE

3301 Washington Ave
Saint Louis, MO 63103

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