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 – Fall 2024
Niki Herd & Travis Mossotti
Monday, September 23
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-september-2024/
Or here:
https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter/live
ABOUT THE POETS
NIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collections The Stuff of Hollywood (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and The Language of Shedding Skin (Main Street Rag, 2011), the chapbook, don’t you weep, and coedited with Meg Day Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry, essays, and criticism appear in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Poetry Daily, New England Review, Salon, and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Ucross, Bread Loaf, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Newberry Library, and Cave Canem. Herd has taught at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Lancaster, PA where she’s an assistant professor at Franklin & Marshall College.
TRAVIS MOSSOTTI‘s three previous collections are About the Dead, Field Study, and Narcissus Americana. His fourth collection, Racecar Jesus, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize (Black Spring Press Group UK, 2023). Mossotti’s fifth collection, Apocryphal Genesis, won the Alma Book Award (Saturnalia Books, 2024). He recently won the 2023 Wales Poetry Award, and he currently serves as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis.
The Observable Readings series is supported in part by:
