Poetry at the Point: Scott Berzon & Michael Pfiefer
March 25 @ 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.
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ABOUT THE POETS
Scott Berzon earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of the Frank Vincent Memorial Prize, the Meader Family Award, and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship. Scott’s creative work has appeared in a variety of publications including Acorn, Cream City Review, Humana Obscura, Poetry Midwest, Quarter After Eight, Southern Indiana Review, and others. Scott lives with his family in St. Louis and works in Jewish communal settings. He serves as a poetry editor for december magazine.
Michael Pfiefer earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and returned to earn an M.A. in English, studying poetry with Larry Levis. He earned an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop where he studied with Marvin Bell, Henry Carlile, Donald Justice and Sandra McPherson. He has published in numerous literary journals and received the 1980 St. Louis Poetry Center Chancellor’s Award, judged by Howard Nemerov, and the 1987 Poet Lore Ratner-Ferber Award. He stopped submitting poems for publication in 1998, but continued writing. He has recently started to again submit work.