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Poetry at the Point: Kamau Walker & Lydia Golitz
January 27 @ 7:30 pm
This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page.
Poetry at the Point welcomes poets Kamau Walker and Lydia Golitz.
ABOUT THE POETS
KAMAU WALKER is a poet from St. Louis, Missouri, currently enrolled in his third year as an MFA poetry candidate at the University of Virginia. He previously received a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University and spent time before his MFA program working as a high school teacher at John Burroughs School in St. Louis. He continues his love of ecology through his writing while also exploring community, love, music, and the importance of the aforementioned in the presence of environmental degradation and systemically permitted/propagated discrimination and violence, with the hope of understanding himself and the world around him.
LYDIA GOLITZ is a second-year MFA student at Washington University in St. Louis. She was born and raised in Chicago. Her work is published in Black Warrior Review, Seneca Review, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere.