Observable

Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Observable series celebrates its 21st season!

The Observable series features local and national poets sharing recently published and new work. Originally started in 2003 by poet Aaron Belz, Observable is a key part of the St. Louis poetry landscape, presenting the liveliness and diversity of contemporary poetry.

Series Curators: Lizzy Petersen & Bailey Schaumburg

Observable Readings – Spring 2025

erica lewis & Rosalie Moffett
Monday, April 14
7:00 p.m. (CT) – In-person at High Low
$5 | suggested donation

ABOUT THE POETS

erica lewis lives in San Francisco. Her books include the precipice of jupiter (2009, with artist Mark Stephen Finein), camera obscura (2010, with artist Mark Stephen Finein), murmur in the inventory (2013); and the box set trilogy: daryl hall is my boyfriend (2015), mary wants to be a superwoman (2017), mahogany (2023). She is currently writing a novel inspired by the murder of her maternal grandmother. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

ROSALIE MOFFETT is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed Editions, 2025), Nervous System (Ecco, 2019), which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June in Eden (OSU Press, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, POETRY Magazine, New England Review, and Kenyon Review, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana, and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review.


The Observable Readings series is supported in part by: