Observable Readings: Niki Herd & Travis Mossotti
September 23 @ 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 Niki Herd and Travis Mossotti 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
NIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collections The Stuff of Hollywood (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and The Language of Shedding Skin (Main Street Rag, 2011), the chapbook, don’t you weep, and coedited with Meg Day Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry, essays, and criticism appear in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Poetry Daily, New England Review, Salon, and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Ucross, Bread Loaf, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Newberry Library, and Cave Canem. Herd has taught at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Lancaster, PA where she’s an assistant professor at Franklin & Marshall College.
TRAVIS MOSSOTTI‘s three previous collections are About the Dead, Field Study, and Narcissus Americana. His fourth collection, Racecar Jesus, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize (Black Spring Press Group UK, 2023). Mossotti’s fifth collection, Apocryphal Genesis, won the Alma Book Award (Saturnalia Books, 2024). He recently won the 2023 Wales Poetry Award, and he currently serves as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis.
VENUE
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