Sunday Workshop: Keetje Kuipers
February 15 @ 1:30 pm
This workshop will be held in-person at High Low.
In conjunction with our February Observable Readings, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Keetje Kuipers for Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop focused on the poetics of humility.
GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION
Please note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.
- Registration is due by Thursday, February 12
- This is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems
- No poem submissions will be accepted for this special event
- Poets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time
- Those registering are expected to attend the workshop
To register, email:
[email protected]
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 12, 2026
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
A Poetics of Humility: Writing Worm-Level Poems
What might it be like for our poems to get down in the dirt, to put ourselves and our poems at worm level? In this class, we will concentrate on writing towards the places in our poems where humility manifests itself as a clarity of vision of ourselves in relation to the world. We’ll accomplish this through reading and writing that asks each of us to create a poetics of humility that yields not a poem of regret but of wonder—at change, at realization, at the endless, humble prospect of still-to-be-seen possibility.
ABOUT THE POET
KEETJE KUIPERS is the author of four books of poetry from BOA Editions, and the Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Northwest. Her collection Lonely Women Make Good Lovers is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and was called “elegant, earthy, [and] pertinent,” by Marilyn Hacker. Her first book, Beautiful in the Mouth, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her subsequent books, The Keys to the Jail and All Its Charms, include poems honored with publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje’s poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and over a hundred other publications. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a Bread Loaf Fellow, the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, a former board member and Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle, and is the recipient of a 2025 NEA fellowship. She lives in Montana with her wife and children.