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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Aiden Heung
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with poet Mary Jo Bang\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Poetry Month Celebration! We are thrilled to partner with Left Bank Books to welcome Aiden Heung and Mary Jo Bang for a night of poetry celebrating the new release of All There Is to Lose by Aiden Heung. Heung holds an MFA in creative writing from Washington University. He is the 2024 winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the DISQUIET Prize\, a winner of the International Proverse Poetry Prize\, and the recipient of 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize\, selected by Diane Seuss. Join us for a reading and book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“What I love most in this book is how the images and details carry emotion via perspective\, while lyrical in turn of phrase. Often understated\, pared down\, the poetry lives here in specifics that emote: A mother scrubs clean the headstone carvings\, a man remembers laughing after he watched his father enter the river twenty years ago\, travelers sleep with their heads on greasy bags. Each detail carries an undertow of emotion.” – Ilya Kaminsky\, Judge of the 2024 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALL THERE IS TO LOSE \n\n\n\nMarking Aiden Heung’s debut collection\, All There Is to Lose is the 2024 winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. The selecting judge\, National Book Award Finalist Ilya Kaminsky\, praises the resonant particularities and depth of feeling found in these poems\, which convert “elegy [into] its driving force.” Poet and Critic Felicity Plunkett observes\, “Dreams and memory move through these porous\, venturesome poems. The spectral jostles with the sensual to tell ‘a story in which I could be found.’ Achily tender\, they open to light\, love and the jab of a joke.” Poet David Tait notes\, “Unsettling and luminous\, the poems preserve the memory of Village 915: its volatile seasons and hard-worn inhabitants\, its headstones\, spirits\, and myriad forms of water. Here you’ll find not only poems of lyrical beauty\, but of grim exactness.” The result is a stunning achievement of a first book\, what Kaminsky identifies as an exemplar of “that ages-old mode of poetry wherein the poet uses language to break bread with the dead\, to bring them back to life\, if only for the moment\, for a portion of the moment\, an instant\, before the line breaks.” Channeling the poet as medium\, “I am the tension on the bow that draws the arrow\,” Heung writes in “Epilogue.” “To lose myself — that is my destiny.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAIDEN HEUNG (he/they) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous town. After working as a traveling salesman for years\, he recently relocated to St. Louis\, USA. His poems have been published in Australian Poetry Journal\, Harvard Review\, The Kenyon Review\, The Yale Review\, 声韵诗刊 (Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine)\, and many other places. He is a finalist for the DISQUIET Prize\, a winner of the International Proverse Poetry Prize\, and the recipient of 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize\, selected by Diane Seuss. He and his work have been generously supported by Varuna\, The National Writers’ House (Australia) and Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency (Switzerland/ Shanghai\, China). He holds an MFA in creative writing from Washington University. \n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG has published nine collections of poetry\, including Elegy\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and translations of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis. \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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-aiden-heung/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Kieron Walquist
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to help celebrate Kieron Walquist for the release of Our Hands Hold Violence: Poems\, a National Poetry Series winner selected and with a forward by Brenda Hillman. This collection of poems explores rural Missouri\, violence\, queer desire / intimacy\, addiction\, familial and wildlife relationships. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Kieron Walquist’s poems are thrilling. He yokes together violences and intimacies\, arranges language into dazzling and resonant patterns\, and breaks open memory to release music that’s torqued and incandescent. This music is queer\, rooted in Missouri\, and announces the arrival of a voice that sings to and against the place that birthed it.” – Eduardo C. Corral\, author of Guillotine \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOUR HANDS HOLD VIOLENCE: POEMS \n\n\n\nThrough encounters with the everyday beauty and brutality so much a part of rural and urban Missouri\, Our Hands Hold Violence explores what it means to experience and/or perpetuate small and significant acts of violence\, toward others and the self. \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to hunt (be hunted)\, haunt (be haunted)\, and other (be othered)? Abiding by a chronological arc told in four movements ( HERE\, THERE\, TOGETHER\, ALONE)\, OHHV follows the speaker(s) as they come up in the Show Me State and come to terms with queerness\, mental disability\, addiction\, and loneliness in the largely Christian\, conservative\, and hyper-masculine landscape. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKIERON WALQUIST (he/they) is a queer neurospicy poet + visual artist from mid-Missouri. Their work appears in Best New Poets\, Gulf Coast\, IHLR\, The Missouri Review\, Pleiades\, Poet Lore\, Third Coast\, Waxwing\, + elsewhere. Their chapbook\, Love Locks\, was selected by Luther Hughes for the 2022 Quarterly West Chapbook Contest. He holds a BA from Lincoln University of Missouri\, an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis\, and has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center\, Monson Arts\, and Vermont Studio Center. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Utah and lives in Salt Lake City. \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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-kieron-walquist/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Oksana Maksymchuk
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Lauris Veips\, a poet and translator from Latvia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a reading and conversation with Oksana Maksymchuk\, an award-winning bilingual Ukrainian American poet\, scholar\, and translator.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHer debut English-language poetry collection Still City: Diary of an Invasion (Pittsburgh University Press/Carcanet) offers an immersive chronicle of war\, originating in the months leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaksymchuk will be in conversation with Lauris Veips\, a poet and translator from Latvia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTILL CITY: DIARY OF AN INVASION \n\n\n\nNamed as One of Financial Times‘s Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024\, the poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality\, temporality\, mortality\, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet’s homeland\, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle\, a chorus\, and a collage\, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality\, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources\, including social media posts\, the news reports\, witness accounts\, recorded oral histories\, photographs\, drone video footage\, intercepted communication\, and official documents\, making sense of the transformations that war effects in individuals\, families\, and communities. Now ecstatic\, now cathartic\, these poems shine a light on survival\, mourning\, and hope through moments of terror and awe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOKSANA MAKSYMCHUK is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet\, scholar\, and translator. She is the author of poetry collections Xenia and Lovy in the Ukrainian. She coedited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine\, an anthology of contemporary poetry\, and has published a few single-author volumes of translations. Born and raised in Lviv\, Ukraine\, she has also lived in Chicago\, Philadelphia\, Budapest\, Berlin\, Warsaw\, and Fayetteville\, Arkansas. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLAURIS VEIPS is a poet and translator from Latvia. His debut poetry collection\, Interesting Days\, was nominated for the Annual Latvian Literature Award in 2021. His translations into Latvian include works by Archilochus\, Anne Carson\, John Donne\, and the evening’s guest Oksana Maksymchuk. Lauris is a 2nd-year PhD student in the Comparative Literature and Thought program at Washington University in St. Louis. \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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/left-bank-books-presents-oksana-maksymchuk/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka
DESCRIPTION:Reading from A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we welcome Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka\, translators for A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi. This is the first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English. Join award winning poet\, translator\, and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis Mary Jo Bang with professor and poet Yuki Tanaka for their collaborative translation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA KISS FOR THE ABSOLUTE: SELECTED POEMS OF SHUZO TAKIGUCHI \n\n\n\nThe first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English \n\n\n\nIn 1923\, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake\, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later\, he was hit by a second earthquake–French Surrealism. Takiguchi (1903-1979) began to write surrealist poems\, translate surrealist writers\, curate exhibitions of surrealist art\, write art criticism\, and\, later\, paint\, helping introduce Surrealism to Japan. He eventually became a major Japanese artistic and cultural figure whose collected works number fourteen volumes. In A Kiss for the Absolute\, Mary Jo Bang\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and her fellow poet and translator Yuki Tanaka present the first collection in English of Takiguchi’s ingenious\, playful\, and erotic poems\, complete with an introduction and the original Japanese texts on facing pages. Takiguchi’s obvious interest in style is perfectly wed to his daredevil rhetorical antics. His poems read as if they could have been written today\, yet they are so original that they couldn’t have been written by anyone else. Bang and Tanaka’s skillful\, colloquial translations offer English readers a long-overdue introduction to this important poet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS & TRANSLATORS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARY JO BANG is the author of nine books of poems—including Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book\, A Film in Which I Play Everyone (Graywolf Press 2023)\, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award\, a PEN Voelcker Award\, and the Heartland Booksellers Award. She’s published translations of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, and Purgatorio. Her translation of Paradiso is forthcoming in July 2025. She is also the translator of Colonies of Paradise: Poems by Matthias Göritz\, and co-translator\, with Yuki Tanaka\, of A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi—forthcoming from Princeton University Press in November 2024. She’s been the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. She is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Yamaguchi\, Japan\, YUKI TANAKA is the author of a debut poetry collection\, Chronicle of Drifting\, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in April 2025. His poems have appeared in The Nation\, The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in English from Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in Tokyo and teaches at Hosei 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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-mary-jo-bang-yuki-tanaka/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:A Night of Poetry featuring JoAnna Novak\, Eileen G'Sell & Safa Khatib
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books\, and also streamed live to this event page and to Left Bank Book’s YouTube page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we welcome three fantastic local poets JoAnna Novak\, Eileen G’Sell\, and Safa Khatib to share their new work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDOMESTIREXIA: POEMSby JoAnna Novak \n\n\n\nHome can be a space of both resistance and discomfort that one desires or takes pleasure in enjoying. Rote notions of home and the domestic are reimagined in these poems as estranging\, excessive\, and populated by unknowable characters. Exploring themes of family\, sacrifice\, disease\, death\, money\, cooking\, romance\, sex\, art\, and the visceral qualities of the everyday\, the poems twist themselves into binds for the reader to undo or surrender to. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFRANCOFILAMENTSby Eileen G’Sell \n\n\n\nVacillating between prose and verse\, Francofilaments presents a varied sojourn through a woman’s trials and tribulations as reimagined\, and filtered through\, French culture and film. Several poems are based on\, or excerpt from\, interviews G’Sell conducted with French or French-speaking actors and filmmakers—including Juliette Binoche\, Celine Sciamma\, and Isabelle Huppert—while others excerpt from an extensive list of reviews and essays published on Francophone cinema. In investigating Francophilia\, G’Sell likewise plumbs the depths of national\, gendered\, and racial identity. While her background as a critic informs many of these poems\, the collection is also based in part on her experience as a single woman in her thirties—chronicling romantic (mis)adventures as well as orbiting more serious themes around sexuality\, mortality\, and pregnancy loss. This volume is a cinematic excavation of interiority—the author’s\, but also that which we see and hear onscreen.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoAnna Novak‘s memoir Contradiction Days was published by Catapult in July 2023. Her short story collection Meaningful Work won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is the author of the novel I Must Have You and three books of poetry: New Life; Abeyance\, North America; and Noirmania. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and other publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Poetry\, Oversound\, Hyperallergic\, The Baffler\, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2023\, she received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism. Her second volume of poetry\, Francofilaments\, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in late 2024; in 2025\, her first nonfiction book\, Lipstick\, will be published as part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSafa Khatib is a writer and teacher living in St. Louis. She is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection A Dress of Locusts (Bloomsbury 2025). \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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-joanna-novak-eileen-gsell-safa-khatib/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents: Ross Gay
DESCRIPTION:Reading from The Book of (More) Delights  and  Inciting Joy: Essays\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis reading will be held in-person at High Low. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a celebration with award-winning and best-selling author Ross Gay for the paperback releases of The Book of (More) Delights and Inciting Joy.  We are delighted to welcome Ross Gay back to St. Louis for a discussion and book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks available from Left Bank Books\n\n\n\nCurbside pick-up\, in-store pick-up\, and shipping available\n\n\n\nRSVP is encouraged\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS \n\n\n\nIn this second intimate collection of short\, lyrical\, genre-defying essays\, again written daily over a year\, one of America’s most original and observant voices celebrates the ordinary\, helping us see our extraordinary world anew. Among Ross Gay’s funny\, poetic\, philosophical delights: bonding with a pipsqueak of a puppy\, observing how his mother bakes eighteen kinds of cookies before her grandchildren arrive\, noticing the tenderness he feels when he sees an adult wearing braces\, and the recognition that for him the preamble is often more delightful than the thing itself: “Putting on your socks and tying up your shoes\, and\, if you’re the type\, filling up your water bottle and doing some light stretching\, but skipping the walk entirely.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINCITING JOY \n\n\n\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet and bestselling author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other\, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection and expand it. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space\, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? Full of energy\, curiosity\, and compassion\, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nROSS GAY is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry\, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022\, and his newest collection\, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023. \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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/lbb-presents-ross-gay/
LOCATION:High Low\, 3301 Washington Ave\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63103
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Lectures & Talks
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SUMMARY:Brian Teare & Dana Levin - Night of Poetry & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This reading will be held in-person at Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\nLeft Bank Books and Saint Louis Poetry Center present critically acclaimed poets Brian Teare & Dana Levin\, who will discuss themes from their newest books\, focusing on transforming oppressions of body and family—chronic illness and abusive family environments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT INFO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn-person and virtual event.RSVP encouraged here.Books available from Left Bank Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOEM BITTEN BY A MANBrian Teare \n\n\n\nA medical emergency\, a road trip\, a breakup\, and a paean to the power of creative process– Poem Bitten by a Man is for everyone who has tried against the odds to make a life in art\, whether they succeeded or not. Using somatic language captured through a notebook practice\, Teare recontextualizes the work of Agnes Martin\, Jasper Johns\, and others via art criticism\, psychoanalysis\, biography\, queer theory\, and historical document to honor writers\, artists\, and thinkers who sustain us when nothing else does. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU AREDana Levin \n\n\n\nWritten between 2016 and 2020\, Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out “to be a messenger—to record whatever wanted to stream through.” Levin works in a variety of forms\, calling on beloveds and ancestors\, great thinkers and religions—convened by her own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality. Balancing clear-eyed forensics of the past with vatic knowledge of the future\, Levin writes: “So many bodies a soul has to press through: personal\, familial\, regional\, national\, global\, planetary\, cosmic— // ‘Now do you know where you are?’”  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE POETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, BRIAN TEARE is the author of seven critically acclaimed books\, including Doomstead Days\, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent publications are a pair of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction\, chronic illness\, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven\, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. An Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia\, Brian lives in Charlottesville\, where he makes books by hand for his micropress\, Albion Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDANA LEVIN is the author of five books poetry. Her latest is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press)\, a 2022 New York Times Notable Book and NPR “Book We Love.” Other books include Banana Palace (2016) and Sky Burial (2011)\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poems and essays have appeared in Poem-a-day\, Best American Poetry\, The American Poetry Review\, and Poetry\, among other publications. She is a grateful recipient of many honors\, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, and the Library of Congress\, as well as from the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting\, and Guggenheim Foundations. With Adele Elise Williams\, she co-edited Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master (2023) for the Unsung Masters Series. Levin serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. \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\nVENUE
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/teare-levin/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 N Euclid Ave\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,In-Person Events,Poetry Reading,Virtual / Online Events
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SUMMARY:BookFest St. Louis
DESCRIPTION:BookFest St. Louis is a celebration of the literary arts that brings dozens of local\, regional and national authors together for a one-day festival in the Central West End. Festival-goers will be able to enjoy author presentations\, panel discussions\, book signings and an array of family-friendly activities and programming throughout the day. All BookFest St. Louis activities are free and open to the public.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/bookfest-st-louis-2/
ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190920T190000
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SUMMARY:BookFest St. Louis Kick-Off
DESCRIPTION:BookFest St. Louis kicks off with a Whitman poetry reading by local poets\, with celebrated passages from Song of Myself.  Maryville University’s Dr. Germaine Murray will offer a brief introduction to WHITMANIA and the vision for the project\, including Walt Whitman’s St. Louis connections.\n\n \n\n\nThis reading is presented as part of WHITMANIA: A Celebration of Whitman at 200
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/bookfest-st-louis/
LOCATION:Mahler Ballroom\, 4915 Washington Blvd\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63108\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bullets Into Bells
DESCRIPTION:Editor Brian Clements is joined by St. Louis poets\, community leaders and advocates for a poetry reading and panel conversation.\n\n\nScheduled Poets and Guests:\nEditor Brian Clements\nPoets Dana Levin\, Aaron Coleman\, Mary Jo Bang\, Cheeraz Gormon\, and St. Louis Story Stitchers\n\nScheduled Community Advocates in attendance including: Rep. Stacey Newman\, Dr. Laurie Punch\, Moms Demand Action\, and Sibling Support Network
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/bullets-into-bells/
LOCATION:Stage at KDHX\, 3524 Washington Ave.\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Not So Late Night: Eve Ewing\, Hanif Abdurraqib\, Katarra & the Sofolkz\, Cheeraz Gormon
DESCRIPTION:The Left Bank Books Foundation\, Maryville Talks Books\, St. Louis Poetry Center and UrbArts present Left Bank Books’ Not So Late Night with host Cheeraz Gormon\, musical guest Katarra & the SoFolkz\, and special guests Eve L. Ewing and Hanif Abdurraqib! \n  \nNOTE: This event is free and open to the public\, but proof of purchase of any of the poets’ featured titles will be required to enter the signing line.
URL:https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/not-so-late-night/
LOCATION:2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center\, 2720 Cherokee St.\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63118\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com
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