Observable
Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Observable series celebrates its 22nd 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
PHOTO CREDIT: Alyssa LaFaro (Calvocoressi)
Observable Readings – Fall 2025
EVENT CANCELLATION / RESCHEDULE NOTICE:
Due to travel complications, this event has been rescheduled to March 23, 2026.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Claude Canese Jarboe
Monday, November 17
7:00 p.m. (CT) – In-person at High Low
$5 | suggested donation
ABOUT THE POETS
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler, The New York Times, POETRY, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry, The New Economy, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry.
CLAUDE CANESE JARBOE is the author of SISSY (Garden-Door Press, 2024). Jarboe is the 2025-2026 Editorial Fellow and managing editor of Pleiades at University of Central Missouri, and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Tallgrass Artist Residency, and Nō Studios. Their work has recently appeared in venues such as POETRY, American Poetry Review, and Traffic East, to name a few. Born and raised on a farm in rural southeastern Kansas, Jarboe currently resides near Kansas City with their fiancée, Andi.
The Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
