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SUMMARY:Observable Readings: Anna Ojascastro Guzon & Kristin Emanuel
DESCRIPTION:The reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Anna Ojascastro Guzon and Kristin Emanuel 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\nA MOTH COLLECTION \n\n\n\nThe poems of A Moth Collection converse with Charles Darwin\, Tina Turner\, Sylvia Plath\, Sacagawea\, Walt Whitman\, Kendrick Lamar\, and the author’s family members who survived World War II in the Philippines. What does it mean to survive? What does it mean to die? What makes us human? What makes us just another animal? Ojascastro Guzon explores the biological sciences\, pop culture\, current events\, religion\, her family’s generational history\, and personal experiences with death\, rebirth\, survival\, motherhood\, marriage\, the practice of medicine\, education\, and being a first generation Filipino American in attempts to answer these questions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBIRDWATCHING IN THE 4TH DIMENSION \n\n\n\nWith percussive alacrity Birdwatching in the 4th Dimension attunes us to the precarity and blinding wonder of life in ages past and present. Joy and mourning mingle in these startling poems\, mapped onto the fossil record and the humdrum calamities of the Anthropocene. In Emanuel’s poems\, the beat of a heard it enough to conjure crustaceans and crocuses\, megatheriea and mantises; it is enough to make them dance in the cosmic matrix of evolution\, death\, and rebirth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nANNA OJASCASTRO GUZON is a Filipino-American writer\, mother\, teacher\, former physician\, and co-founder of YourWords STL\, a nonprofit that uses creative writing workshops to amplify the voices of St. Louis youth. She received an MD from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and an MFA from The New School Graduate Writing Program in New York City. One may find her writing in Bone Bouquet\, The Boiler Journal\, and Bellingham Review\, among other publications. A Moth Collection is her debut book of poetry\, released in May of 2026\, by Finishing Line Press.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKRISTIN EMANUEL is a PhD candidate at Washington University studying poetry and poetics. She is the author of Birdwatching in the 4th Dimension\, which was selected by judge Shann Ray as the winner of the 2025 Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize. Her poems\, essays\, and comics have appeared in journals such as Ecotone\, Blackbird\, and The Rumpus. \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-september-2026/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Sky Hopinka: Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at the Sunnen Lounge at Webster University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebster University’s David Clewell Writing Series welcomes Sky Hopinka. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSky Hopinka will display a selection of his works at Webster University’s Kooyumjian Gallery. The exhibition\, called “Sky Hopinka: Languages\,” opens Friday\, October 2nd at 5:30 p.m. and celebrates the work of this acclaimed artist\, including photography\, film\, and poetry that explores Indigenous homeland\, landscape\, memory\, and language. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSKY HOPINKA (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga) was born and raised in Ferndale\, Washington and Palm Springs\, California. In Portland\, Oregon he studied and taught chinuk wawa\, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video\, photo\, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape\, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal\, documentary\, and non fiction forms of media. \n\n\n\nHis work has played at various festivals including Sundance\, Toronto International Film Festival\, and the New York Film Festival. His work was a part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial\, the 2018 FRONT Triennial\, the 2021 edition of Prospect.5\, and the 14th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea and the Göteborg International Biennial in Switzerland in 2023. He was a guest curator at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies–Bard College in 2020\, at LUMA in Arles\, France in 2022\, and in 2024 at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle\, WA and Kunsthalle Friart in Switzerland. His films\, videos\, and photographs are in collections at the Museum of Modern Art\, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt\, Germany\, The Whitney Museum\, the Amon Carter Museum of Art\, and the Walker Art Center amongst others. \n\n\n\nHe was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2018- 2019\, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow for 2019\, an Art Matters Fellow in 2019\, a recipient of a 2020 Herb Alpert Award for Film/Video\, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, and was a 2021 Forge Project Fellow. He received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography\, is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and was a winner of the 2023 Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel. He currently lives in Brooklyn\, New York and Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and is an assistant professor in the department of Art\, Film\, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sky-hopinka-poetry-reading-2026/
LOCATION:Webster University\, 470 E Lockwood Avenue\, Webster Groves\, Missouri\, 63119\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:"Sky Hopinka: Languages" Photography\, Poetry and Film Exhibit & Reception
DESCRIPTION:This reception will be held in-person at Kooyumjian Gallery at Webster University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Sky Hopinka: Languages” is a collaborative exhibition celebrating the works of this acclaimed artist\, including photography\, film\, and poetry that explores Indigenous homeland\, landscape\, memory\, and language. Join us for an opening reception from 5:30pm-7:30pm in conjunction with the David Clewell Visiting Writers Series and the Kooyumjian Gallery. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the reception\, the Webster University Film Series is hosting a screening of “Powwow People” with Sky Hopinka in Winnifred Moore Auditorium at 7:30pm-9pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: the film screening is a paid event (ticket purchased at door)\, all other Sky Hopinka Events are free. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSKY HOPINKA (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga) was born and raised in Ferndale\, Washington and Palm Springs\, California. In Portland\, Oregon he studied and taught chinuk wawa\, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video\, photo\, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape\, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal\, documentary\, and non fiction forms of media. \n\n\n\nHis work has played at various festivals including Sundance\, Toronto International Film Festival\, and the New York Film Festival. His work was a part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial\, the 2018 FRONT Triennial\, the 2021 edition of Prospect.5\, and the 14th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea and the Göteborg International Biennial in Switzerland in 2023. He was a guest curator at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies–Bard College in 2020\, at LUMA in Arles\, France in 2022\, and in 2024 at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle\, WA and Kunsthalle Friart in Switzerland. His films\, videos\, and photographs are in collections at the Museum of Modern Art\, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt\, Germany\, The Whitney Museum\, the Amon Carter Museum of Art\, and the Walker Art Center amongst others. \n\n\n\nHe was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2018- 2019\, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow for 2019\, an Art Matters Fellow in 2019\, a recipient of a 2020 Herb Alpert Award for Film/Video\, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, and was a 2021 Forge Project Fellow. He received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography\, is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and was a winner of the 2023 Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel. He currently lives in Brooklyn\, New York and Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and is an assistant professor in the department of Art\, Film\, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/sky-hopinka-reception-2026/
LOCATION:Kooyumjian Gallery at Webster University\, Sverdrup\, 8300 Big Bend Blvd\, Webster Groves\, Missouri\, 63119\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition,Film Screening,In-Person Events
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