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 – Winter 2025
Jacqui Germain & Alison C. Rollins
Monday, February 17
7:00 p.m. (CT) – In-person at High Low + Livestream Event
$5 | suggested donation
Enjoy the livestream here:
https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-february-2025/
Or here:
https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter/live
ABOUT THE POETS
JACQUI GERMAIN is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. Her first full-length poetry collection, Bittering the Wound, was selected by Douglas Kearney for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and was awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. She’s the recipient of a journalism fellowship from the Economic Security Project and Teen Vogue, and has written for The Nation, The New York Times, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, In These Times Magazine, and more. Germain is also the recipient of poetry fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, Jack Jones Literary Arts, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and more. Her first poetry chapbook, When the Ghosts Come Ashore, was published by Button Poetry in 2016.
ALISON C. ROLLINS was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021, her essay “Dispatch from the Racial Mountain” was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work, across genres, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and in 2020, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and the debut poetry collection, Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
