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Observable Readings: Mary Jo Bang & Eileen G’Sell
September 22 @ 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.
To kick off the 2025-2026 season, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poets Mary Jo Bang and Eileen G’Sell for Observable Readings.
Books available for purchase from Left Bank Books.
ABOUT THE POETS
MARY JO BANG has published nine collections of poetry, including Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and translations of Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis.
EILEEN 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, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2024; in 2026, her first nonfiction book, Lipstick, will be published as part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
VENUE
The Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
