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SUMMARY:Sunday Workshop: Devin Johnston
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with our April Observable Readings\, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Devin Johnston for the April Sunday Workshop! This will be a generative workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry and the Senses \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore ways of writing sensory experience. By rendering particular sensations with vividness and accuracy\, we imply an entire world. Using brief excerpts from poetry as models\, we will work collaboratively\, focusing on ways of capturing tastes and smells\, in particular. We will not aim for finished poems\, but strong sensory images that might form the basis of future work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required\, and is first-come\, first-served. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is due by Wednesday\, April 14\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: April 14\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDEVIN JOHNSTON spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of eight books of poetry including Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026\, published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux in 2026. He has also published Creaturely and Other Essays\, meditations on the natural world. He works as an editor of Flood Editions\, a nonprofit publishing house\, and he teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sunday Workshop series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sunday-workshop-april-2027/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Workshop
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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Devin Johnston & Justin Danzy
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Devin Johnston and Justin Danzy for Observable Readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available for purchase from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBRIGHT THORN: POEMS 2000-2026 \n\n\n\nThe selected poems of Devin Johnston\, a poet who can “change the way you breathe” (Maureen N. McLane). Bright Thorn\, distilling Devin Johnston’s work across a quarter century and seven books\, offers an alternative to our frenzied moment through the calm measured feeling and formal intelligence of his verse. Historical\, philosophical\, closely observational\, and rooted evenly in the deep poetic past and the daily rhythms of American life\, these poems open the world to imaginative scrutiny. Johnston is a chronicler in a Yeatsian sense\, whose eye\, cast discerningly over the landscape\, is affectionate yet icily clear. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRUN IN SUCH A WAY \n\n\n\nA poet’s candid and probing exploration of faith\, Blackness\, and masculinity. With poems that closely examine familial bonds and heritage\, biblical teachings\, a shifting understanding of home\, and the violence of toxic masculinity\, Justin Danzy’s Run in Such a Way sits at the crossroads of religion\, race\, gender\, and more. A collection about pursuit\, tracking the narrative of its speaker’s journey toward a deeper understanding of himself and of his community as he moves from child to man\, the book wrestles with the way an identity is constructed\, deconstructed\, and reconstructed again throughout one’s life. Playful and sincere in equal measure\, Danzy’s command of the line carries us through as we travel with the speaker to the precipice of belief. Danzy’s lyrical voice and fealty to his people pays homage to the world that made him\, and considers all that the speaker of this tremendous debut has—both wisely and foolishly—run toward and away from in the search for truth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDEVIN JOHNSTON spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of eight books of poetry including Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026\, published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux in 2026. He has also published Creaturely and Other Essays\, meditations on the natural world. He works as an editor of Flood Editions\, a nonprofit publishing house\, and he teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJUSTIN DANZY is a poet and educator from Southfield\, Michigan\, and the author of Run in such a way (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press)\, which Rachel Eliza Griffiths described as “a vision of snare\, thorn\, tongue\, and the endless rhythms through which language skims its wings across the darkened faces of history\, memory\, and body.” He is a Cave Canem Fellow\, the 2019 Gregory Padlo Fellow at the Frost Place\, winner of New England Review’s Award for Emerging Writers\, a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee\, and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize. Danzy’s poems can be found in publications such as Pleiades: Literature in Context\, Poetry\, New England Review\, Missouri Review\, and Obsidian. He lives in St. Louis\, Missouri and teaches English at St. Louis University High School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-april-2027/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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