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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point: Floyd Boykin\, Jr.\, Robert Lowes & Paul Stroble
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrons are encouraged to wear face masks when attending Poetry at the Point in-person at Focal Point.  Learn more >> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFloyd Boykin\, Jr. is a father\, award winning poet\, author\, musician\, a recording artist and performer\, producer\, filmmaker\, youth group organizer and Lupus Awareness Advocate. He is the founder of SpokenVizions Entertainment Group\, L.L.C. and the producer of Project L.I.F.E. He is the author nine books (six poetry\, three self-help). Floyd has opened for a variety of poets and other artists such as The Last Poets\, Gill Scott-Heron\, Dahveed Nelson\, Malik Yusef\, Goapele\, Maya Azucena and Murphy Lee. He has released five studio albums including his most popular release EARTHOLOGY\, which includes a collaboration with Malcolm-Jamal Warner. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Lowes is a writer whose first poetry collection\, An Honest Hunger (Resource Publications)\, was published in 2020. His poems have appeared in journals such as The New Republic\, Southern Poetry Review\, december\, and Tampa Review. He recently has branched out into haiku while still writing poems in traditional European forms and free verse. A former president and board member of Saint Louis Poetry Center\, he coordinated the organization’s high school poetry contest for nine years. When he’s not hunched over a notebook\, he may be playing rhythm guitar at the School of Rock in Kirkwood. Samples of his poetry and journalism can be found at robertlowes.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Stroble teaches at Webster University and Eden Theological Seminary. A native of Vandalia (Fayette County)\, Illinois\, he has written several books\, especially church curriculum. His website is paulstroble.com. His poetry books\, published by Finishing Line Press\, are Dreaming at the Electric Hobo (2015)\, Little River (2017)\, Small Corner of the Stars (2017)\, Backyard Darwin (2019)\, Walking Lorton Bluff (2020)\, Four Mile (2022)\, and Galápagos Joy (2023).
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-march-2023/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point Online: Ben Gaa\, Robert Lowes & Phillip McClenton
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be streamed live to this event page and to St. Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBen Gaa\n\n\n\nBen Gaa is your friendly neighborhood haiku poet. He’s the author of two full length collections of haiku & senryu\, One Breath (Spartan Press 2020)\, and the Touchstone Award winning Wishbones (Folded Word 2018)\, as well as three chapbooks\, the Pushcart nominated Wasp Shadows (Folded Word 2014)\, Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (Poor Metaphor Design 2014) and Fiddle in the Floorboards (Yavanika Press 2018). Widely published in journals anthologies around the globe\, he enjoys both giving and attending poetry readings\, conducting haiku workshops\, and being a part of the literary conversation. Ben is a graduate of the Knox College Creative Writing program and works as an IT Functional Analyst for MilliporeSigma (aka Merck KgAA). He currently lives in St. Louis\, MO\, with his rascal of a cat\, Anastasia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Lowes\n\n\n\nRobert Lowes is a writer in St. Louis whose first collection of poetry\, titled An Honest Hunger\, was published last year by Wipf and Stock Publishers under its Resource Publications imprint. His poems have appeared in journals such as The New Republic\, december\, Chariton Review\, Big Muddy\, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics\, Tampa Review\, and the Christian Century. december has published interviews of his with Marvin Bell and Jesse Lee Kercheval. For the past eight years\, he has coordinated the high school poetry contest of the St. Louis Poetry Center. For more information\, visit robertlowes.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhillip McClenton\n\n\n\nPhillip McClenton has been writing since he was 21. He got started after two heartbreaks in one month\, and then poetry just started coming out of nowhere. He’s been writing ever since and now he’s a poet/songwriter. He writes his poems in a phone then in a notebook and sometimes he can write 30 to 60 poems a day.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-online-april-2021/
LOCATION:Livestream / Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Point
DESCRIPTION:Poetry at the Point kicks off the election year with a fun presidential reading by St. Louis Poetry Center’s current and past board presidents.\n\nPoets include Dwight Bitikofer\, Ted Mathys\, Mary Ruth Donnelly\, Robert Lowes and Keith Byler
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-38/
LOCATION:Focal Point\, 2720 Sutton\, Maplewood\, MO\, 63143\, United States
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