
Observable Readings: Jacqui Germain & Alison C. Rollins
February 17 @ 7:00 pm
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.

Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Jacqui Germain and Alison C. Rollins 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
JACQUI 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.
ALISON 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.
VENUE
The Observable Readings series is supported in part by: