Newsletter - St. Louis Poetry Center

CE LE BR ATING 70 YE ARS
FALL 2016
Newsletter
September – November
Introducing
Erin Quick, Our New
Executive Director
MISSION STATEMENT
Our passion for poetry guides us
to encourage people of all ages and
backgrounds to participate in the
infinite possibilities of the written
and spoken word.
We conduct workshops, contests,
outreach programs, and readings to
promote poetry in the community.
“I’m like Lewis Carroll,” says a laughing
Erin Quick, the new executive director
of the St. Louis Poetry Center.
“I’m a poet who loves math.”
INSIDE
Meet Erin Quick........................1
President’s Note + Board
Members + Fee Workshop........2
Observable Readings................3
Poetry at the Point....................4
Sunday Workshops...................5
Second Friday Notes.................6
Kudos + Community.................7
SLPC Membership.....................8
Visit our new website
stlouispoetrycenter.org
THE SLPC NEWSLETTER
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St. Louis, MO 63130, 314-973-0616,
[email protected]
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So Quick has both sides of her brain going — the creative and the analytical
— both of which promise to benefit the St. Louis Poetry Center as it seeks to
strengthen its place in the St. Louis arts scene.
The child of parents who read her poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and
Shel Silverstein, Quick earned a BA in English literature with an emphasis in
creative writing at Webster University. Her poetry has appeared in Sou’wester,
Bad Shoe, and Saxifrage Press. As a former staffer at Left Bank Books, Quick
helped build a local audience for poetry by recommending authors after
figuring out a reader’s tastes.
That’s all on the right side of her brain. As a left-brained person oriented
toward numbers and organization, Quick was the development director at
The Soulard School, a local community school, leading a team that raised
hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. She has honed her non-profit
management skills by taking classes at the Regional Arts Commission, the
Network for Strong Communities, and the SLPL Grants and Foundation Center.
But whether it’s raising money, budgeting money, or anything else that pertains
to a non-profit group like the St. Louis Poetry Center, Quick says it all comes
down to building relationships, and that’s what she intends to do with members,
volunteers, educators, donors, and the area’s cultural community at large. Says
Quick: “Relationship building is empowering – people want to be engaged and
involved. Poetry in general, and our organization in particular, is uniquely
positioned to act as a community platform at times when people need the
common connection it provides.”
— Bob Lowes
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A Note from the President…
It is with a great deal of humility and trepidation that I embark upon the journey of this
new role as president of St. Louis Poetry Center. I will continue to draw heavily upon the
experience of immediate past president, Mary Ruth Donnelly, who carried this banner
for some half-dozen years. Equally important will be input from the all of the members
of the St. Louis Poetry Center board listed at right.
ST. LOUIS
POETRY CENTER
BOARD MEMBERS
It is with great excitement that I welcome Erin Quick as the new director of St. Louis
Poetry Center. Board members share the belief that Erin can take St. Louis Poetry
Center to new levels. Erin has worked most recently as development director of The
Soulard School in St. Louis. That experience has given her insights and contacts in the
world of grants and funding for not-for-profit organizations. In addition, and also very
important, Erin has deep connections with many members of the St. Louis
poetry community.
Mary Ruth Donnelly
Immediate Past President
A little bit about me. My career has been and continues to be in publication of
community newspapers. I am publisher of Webster-Kirkwood Times, South County
Times and West End Word. I am the parent of three adult children and live in
Webster Groves.
My poetry community connections began with open mic readings. I have had the
privilege of putting on “po-jazz” performances with local musician, Raven Wolf C. Felton
Jennings II. For the past six years I have curated the second friday notes poetry reading
which is currently hosted by Dierbergs Markets at its Des Peres location. I have been
a member of the St. Louis Poetry Center board for about five years. I have previously
served on the board of St. Louis Writers Guild and still emcee an open mic reading at
the Kirkwood Amtrak station.
St. Louis Poetry Center celebrates 70 years this year.
It is primarily a volunteer and membership driven
organization. We need to grow our membership
numbers and expand our abilities to do community
outreach projects. Especially, we need YOU. We need
ideas that you are able to help us implement. We need
your support at community readings. We need your
membership. We have recently updated the St. Louis
Poetry Center website (stlouispoetrycenter.org). It
is now possible to have a monthly gift to St. Louis
Poetry Center charged to your credit card. Thank you
so much for your consideration of support for this
historic organization that wants to expand its role as
a viable center for poetry in St. Louis.
Dwight Bitikofer
President
Loy Ledbetter
President Emeritus
Glenn Boothe
Secretary
Ron Fredman
Treasurer
Vincent Casaregola
Mary Ann deGrandpre Kelly
Jeff Hamilton
Joshua Kryah
Ted Mathys
Nancy Powers Pritchard
Alison Rollins
Jason N. Vasser
Glendal Wallace
STAFF
Erin Quick
Executive Director
Thank you to the following whose
board terms ended recently. We
appreciate their service:
Jennifer Goldring, Ed Kindley,
Drucilla Wall
FEE WORKSHOP WITH TED MATHYS - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
SATURDAY, OCT. 29, 10 A.M. – 3 P.M.
WHERE: CENTRALLY LOCATED PRIVATE RESIDENCE WITH LUNCH INCLUDED
Fee: $50 members, $60 non-members
Limited to 10 registrants, pay on site
Email your registration request to Jeff Hamilton: [email protected]
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CASSIE DONISH
An M.F.A. candidate
and Olin Fellow at
Washington University in
St. Louis, Cassie Donish’s
poems have appeared
or are forthcoming in
Sixth Finch, Jellyfish,
THERMOS, Forklift, Ohio,
and elsewhere. She is an
editor of February, an anthology, holds an
M.A. in cultural geography from the
University of Oregon, and hails from
South Pasadena, California.
October 3, 7:30 p.m.
ANNE WINTERS
New
Observable
Season!
September 12, 7:30 p.m.
ALLISON FUNK
Allison Funk teaches
English and Creative
Writing at Southern
Illinois University
Edwardsville. She has
received a fellowship
from the National
Endowment for the Arts
and has published five
books of poems, including Wonder Rooms,
(Parlor Press, 2015) and Living at the Epicenter
(Northeastern University Press, 1995). Her
work has been included in many journals,
including The Paris Review; Poetry; Field; and
Prairie Schooner. She was educated at Ohio
Wesleyan and Columbia University.
MICHAEL
O’LEARY
Born and raised in
suburban Detroit,
Michael O’Leary studied
classics in college and
received a PhD in civil and
materials engineering.
A founding editor of
both LVNG and Flood Editions, he works as
a structural engineer in the nuclear power
industry and lives with his family in Chicago.
Anne Winters is the
author of The Key to the
City (1986), a finalist
for the National Book
Critics Circle Award, and
The Displaced of Capital
(2004). Her poems
address issues of poverty,
homelessness, social
inequality, and the city of New York. Winters
is fluent in French, and her translations
include Salamander: Selected Poems of Robert
Marteau (1979). Her awards include a
National Endowment for the Arts grant, a
Guggenheim fellowship, and an Award in
Literature from the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters. She is
professor emerita at the University
of Illinois at Chicago.
JASON SOMMER
Jason Sommer is
author of Lifting the
Stone (Forest Books,
London) Other People’s
Troubles and The Man
Who Sleeps in My Office
(University of Chicago).
His latest collection The
Laughter of Adam and
Eve (Southern Illinois University) won the
Crab Orchard Review Open Competition.
He has published translations of Irish
language poems and, with Hongling Zhang,
collaborative translations of Chinese fiction.
A former Mirrielees Fellow in Poetry at
Stanford University, he has held fellowships
from the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writing
Conferences, and has been a recipient of the
Whiting Foundation Writer’s Fellowship.
November 7, 7:30 p.m.
AVERILL CURDY
The author of Song and
Error: Poems (2014) and
co-editor of The Longman
Anthology of Poetry
(2006), Curdy earned an
MFA at the University
of Houston and a PhD
at the University of
Missouri. She has won
the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writing Award,
a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the
Illinois Council for the Arts. Her poems have
appeared in many journals, including Poetry,
The Paris Review, and The Kenyon Review.
She lives in Chicago and teaches at
Northwestern University.
STEPHANIE
SCHLAIFER
Originally from Atlanta,
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer
is a poet and installation
artist in St. Louis. She is
the author of Cleavemark
(BOAAT Press, 2016).
Schlaifer earned her MFA
from the Iowa Writers’
Workshop, and she was selected for Best
New Poets 2015. Her poems have appeared
in Georgia Review, AGNI, Denver Quarterly,
and elsewhere. She frequently collaborates
with other artists, most recently with Cheryl
Wassenaar on the installation Cleavemark
Drive at the Fort Gondo Compound for
the Arts. Schlaifer is currently working
on a series of sculptures based on her new
manuscript of poems, which investigates
the bureaucracy of the brain.
Dressel’s Public House, 2nd floor
419 N. Euclid, 63108
in the Central West End
Curators: Jeff Hamilton
and Joshua Kryah
Donations of $5 welcome
Please note: no elevator access
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Poetry at the Point
September 27, 7:30 p.m.
RON FREDMAN
I have been reading
poetry since Dr. Seuss. I
have been writing for four
decades. Today my tone
shifts from gratitude to
outrage. There is much in
this world that requires
the conscience of art. I
hope I can help with that.
Recently, I took on the responsibility of being
engaged with the St Louis Poetry Center as
board treasurer. I wish to strengthen the
voice of the poets of St Louis.
SARA
ELIZABETH
COOK
Sara Elizabeth Cook
is a Kentucky native
with a plan to captivate
audiences all over. She
has recently published
her first chapbook,
crawling home, and is
currently writing her first full length poetry
collection. The option to fail at becoming a
known poet does not exist; Sara falls to let
it hurt and uses poetry to prove to the world
there is beauty inside pain. Sara’s goal is to
show artists that you do not have to struggle.
Outside of art, Sara works in the sales and
marketing world.
MARÍA BALOGH
María T. Balogh is a
bilingual, bicultural poet,
fiction writer, Caribbean
folkloric dancer, and
educator originally from
Colombia. She has a book
of poetry in Spanish by
a Spanish publisher and
a collection of poetry
and fiction in English by Cool Way Press.
Her fiction & poetry have been published in
several different journals from the USA and
South America. She has been here and there
and done this and that, including a couple
of tours in the Peace Corps. She now teaches
Spanish, specializing in Latin American
literature and creative writing at UMSL.
October 25, 7:30 p.m.
November 22, 7:30 p.m.
STEVE
SCHREINER
EUGENE
BUDNITSKY
Steven Schreiner’s most
recent book is Belly
(Cervena-Barva, 2015).
His poems have appeared
in many magazines,
including Poetry, Image,
Colarado Review, River
Styx and December, and
numerous anthologies. He teaches in the
MFA Program at the University of MissouriSt. Louis and is the founding editor of Natural
Bridge, a journal of contemporary literature.
KELLI ALLEN
Kelli Allen is the author
of two chapbooks
and two full-length
collections, including the
forthcoming Imagine Not
Drowning (C&R Press,
2017). Her work has
appeared in numerous
journals and anthologies,
and she is a four-time Pushcart Prize
nominee. She served as Managing Editor of
Natural Bridge, and is Poetry Editor for The
Lindenwood Review. She is also the director
of the River Styx Hungry Young Poets Series
and founded the Graduate Writers Reading
Series for UMSL. Allen holds an MFA from
the University of Missouri St. Louis, and
is currently a Professor of Humanities and
Creative Writing at Lindenwood University.
GLENDAL
WALLACE
Glendal Wallace is a poet,
educator and workshop
presenter. She has taught
English and Journalism
as a public school and
college educator for over
twenty years. The author
of two poetry collections,
Unconnected Thoughts and Jewels of Fillmore,
Glendal’s work speaks in the authentic voice
of a heartfelt observer regarding issues of the
soul and society at large. She believes that
writing poetry is a “lens for her to… release.”
POETRY AT THE POINT IS GENEROUSLY UNDERWRITTEN BY
WEBSTER-KIRKWOOD TIMES AND WEST END WORD - THANK YOU!
Eugene Budnitsky was
born in St. Petersburg,
Russia. He was educated
mostly in unpoetic
subjects in Russia,
Canada, and the United
States. After more than
a decade working in the
financial markets, primarily in Moscow and
Toronto, Eugene found himself devoting
an increasing share of his waking brain to
reading and writing poetry. He has been
living in St. Louis for two years with his wife,
little daughter, and a spaniel Joseph Brodsky.
TERESA
DZIEGLEWICZ
Teresa Dzieglewicz is a
current MFA candidate
at Southern Illinois
University Carbondale,
where she has worked as
an Editorial Assistant
at Crab Orchard Review.
She is also an elementary
school teacher and has taught in rural South
Dakota and San Jose, CA. Her poetry has
appeared in Rhino, Crab Creek Review, and
South Dakota Review and has been honored by
the St. Louis Poetry Center and the Academy
of American Poets. She has been a New
Harmony Writer’s Workshop scholarship
recipient as well as a resident at Art Farm
Nebraska and Brush Creek Foundation for
the Arts.
STEFENE
RUSSELL
Stefene Russell is a St.
Louis-based poet, actor,
and arts journalist.
She is also a member
of Poetry Scores, a
collective dedicated to
translating poetry into
other mediums, including visual art, film,
and music. Her books include the poem/
essay/CD art book Go South for Animal Index
(Poetry Scores, 2007) the chapbook Inferna
(Intagliata Press, 2013), and The Possum Codex
(Otis Nebula, 2015).
The Focal Point
2720 Sutton Blvd.
St. Louis MO 63143
Doors 7 p.m.,
Reading at 7:30 p.m.
Curator: Jennifer Adams
The fourth Tuesday of every month
[email protected]
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Sunday Workshops
St. Louis Poetry Center’s signature program, the Sunday
Workshops are held the second Sunday of each month,
September through April, except for December. The guest
poet critic will lead the workshop and provide critique on
a selection of pre-submitted poems. All poems submitted
will receive written comments.
Location
University City Public Library,
Auditorium
September 11
November 13
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Facilitated by Ed Kindley
Submissions due September 4
Curator: Sally Van Doren
October 9
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Facilitated by Sally Van Doren
Submissions due October 2
CATHERINE
RANKOVIC
Catherine Rankovic’s
poems have been
published or are
forthcoming in
Midwestern Gothic,
River Styx, December, Garbanzo and
Bacopa Literary Review. Her books
include the poetry chapbook Hide
and Sex; Meet Me: Writers in St.
Louis; Island Universe: Essays and
Entertainments; Fierce Consent and
Other Poems, and Guilty Pleasures:
Indulgences, Addictions, and Obsessions.
She received her M.F.A. from
Washington University in St. Louis,
where she taught from 1989 to
2010. She teaches poetry and
creative-nonfiction writing in
the online M.F.A. program at
Lindenwood University.
6701 Delmar, 63130
KATHRYN
NUERNBERGER
Kathryn Nuernberger
is the author of two
poetry collections,
The End of Pink, which
received the James
Laughlin award from the Academy
of American Poets, and Rag & Bone,
which won the Antivenom Prize
from Elixir Press. A collection of
lyric essays, Brief Interviews with the
Romantic Past, is forthcoming from
OSU Press in 2017. Recent poems
have appeared in 32 Poems, Cincinnati
Review, Crazyhorse, Field, Prairie
Schooner, West Branch and elsewhere.
She is an associate professor of
Creative Writing at University
of Central Missouri, where she
also serves as the director of
Pleiades Press.
To submit poems by mail:
Workshop Submission
St. Louis Poetry Center
P.O. Box 300167
St. Louis, MO 63130
To submit poems by email:
[email protected]
“Workshop Submission” in subject line
Attachment as Microsoft Word document
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Facilitated by Erin Quick
Submissions due November 6
TREASURE
SHIELDS
REDMOND
Treasure Shields
Redmond is a St.
Louis metro based
poet, speaker,
diversity and inclusion coach, and
social justice educator. Her book chop:
a collection of kwansabas for fannie
lou hamer (Argus house press, 2015)
focuses on the life of civil rights
activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Over
her career, Treasure has facilitated
dialogues about poetry, pedagogy,
and justice. Combining her gifts with
her passion, Treasure is able to lead
strategic plan writing and facilitate
beginning dialogues about race,
gender, class, and ability. Presently,
Treasure divides her time between
being an assistant professor of
English at Southwestern Illinois
College and doctoral studies at
Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Criteria: Submit only one poem, one page in length, vertical
format and one column of text. Provide name, mailing
address, and email address. Email submissions will be
acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt. Submissions due by
12 midnight Sunday one week prior to the workshop. Those
submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop.
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second friday notes
September 9
October 14
Kim Lozano
teaches creative writing
workshops in St. Louis
and co-directs the River
Styx reading series.
Her essays, poetry,
and short fiction have
been published or are
forthcoming in Poetry
Daily, The Iowa Review,
Alaska Quarterly Review, The Journal,
Midwestern Gothic, Denver Quarterly,
Valparaiso Poetry Review, New Poetry from the
Midwest, and elsewhere.
Marie CheweElliott is a writer/
poet and community
arts advocate. She is
the author of Psalms
of a Woman: Selected
Poems & Reflections, the
forthcoming Woman’s
Work: Poems, Songs & Hope
for the Journey, and the
children’s book What Kittens Like. Marie is a
member of Write Sistahs Literary Group in
Florissant, MO.
Matthew
Freeman discovered
he was a poet when as a
teenager he awoke to the
sensation of falling. His
latest book is Everything
I Love Restored and Other
Poems, and other poems,
and was published by
Coffeetown Press.
Amanda Wells
earned her MA in English
from the University
of Missouri - St. Louis
where she now teaches
writing. Aside from
various academic outlets,
her work has appeared in
HipMama, Bellerive, Flood
Stage: An Anthology of
St. Louis Poets, Bad Shoe, South County
Times, and elsewhere.
Will Soll plays
tenor banjo, guitar and
mandolin. He’s one of
St.Louis’ most passionate
and prolific advocates of
Yiddish music.
Bob Gleason has
been playing as a single
musician around the St.
Louis area and on the
road for many years. From
Mississippi to British
Columbia, he has played
everywhere. He can fill a
room with sound or be a
plant in the corner that’s what you learn to do as a single
musician. He sings and plays guitar,
harmonica, and clarinet.
November 11
lives in southern Illinois.
Her poems have appeared
in Bellevue Literary
Review, Naugatuck River
Review, Sugar Mule, Sweet,
Prairie Schooner, Natural
Bridge, Adanna, RHINO,
and Crab Creek Review.
She edited Cherry Pie
Press, publishing nine poetry chapbooks by
Midwestern women poets.
Mary Ruth
Donnelly has always
lived near the MississippiMissouri River but has
seen far too little of it. A
Kansas City native now
down river in St Louis,
she has found inspiration
in roads and rivers. Her
poems recently appeared
in the anthology Down to the Dark River:
Contemporary Poems about the Mississippi River
(Louisiana Literature Press).
Jordan Bitticks’
original songs strike a
balance between ethereal
and earthly. She draws
inspiration from the
small intricacies of life,
romantic poets of yore,
and her own rose-colored
vision of the world.
Dierbergs Market in Des Peres
Manchester Road at Lindemann,
between Lindbergh and I-270
Readings on Mezzanine level
Elevator access from covered parking
garage below the store
Begins at 7 p.m. - Free
Curator: Dwight Bitikofer
Brick City Poetry Festival,
2nd annual. Oct. 13-17. U.S. Poet
Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
Headlines the 2nd Annual St. Louis
Brick City Poetry Festival.
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Rebecca Ellis
SECOND FRIDAY NOTES IS
GENEROUSLY UNDERWRITTEN
BY DIERBERG’S - THANK YOU!
Oct. 14, 7-9 p.m., UrbArts, 2600 N. 14th Street, St. Louis, MO
63106: The Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate Ceremony.
Oct. 15, 14th Street Artists Community Gallery, 2701 N. 14th
Street, 11 a.m.: Poetry Workshop with Jane Ellen Ibur. 2 p.m.:
Warrior Poets Ceremony. 8 p.m.: DYNAMIC WOMEN.
Oct. 16, 1:30 p.m. reception; 2:30 p.m. Reading, St. Louis Public
Library Central Branch Auditorium: An Afternoon with
Juan Felipe Herrera.
Alison C. Rollins Named a 2016 Ruth Lilly Fellow
Congratulations to SLPC board member Alison
C. Rollins, one of the recipients of the 2016 Ruth
Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry
Fellowship from POETRY Magazine. “Among
the largest awards offered to young poets in the
United States, the prize is intended to encourage
the further study and writing of poetry and is
open to all U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of
age.” (Poetry Foundation)
Kudos
Born and raised in St. Louis city, Alison currently works as a librarian
while pursuing her Masters in Information and Library Science from
the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Alison holds a BS in
Psychology from Howard University where she studied poetry under
Professor Tony Medina. She is a founding member of the St. Louis
City Reading Series “South Grand Lost Poets.” She is the second
place winner of the 2016 James H. Nash Poetry Contest. Her poems
have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, River Styx, Vinyl, and
elsewhere. Recent Poem Publications include “Why Is We Americans”
in POETRY (June 2016) and “Water No Get Enemy” in River Styx 96,
The River Styx Guide To Money and Power.
Jason Vasser’s poem “Cadillacs in Space?” appeared in Unveiling
Visions: The Alchemy of The Black Imagination art and design exhibition
(Schaumburg, 2016), and his essay “Treading the Atlantic” in
Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, Netherlandic Migrations:
Narratives from North America (2016). He will be featured in the
documentary “Never Been a Time” by Dr. Denise Ward.
Dr. Paul Stroble has a poem, “Little River,” in the new issue of Big
Muddy. He also has a chapbook coming out in December, Little River
(Finishing Line Press, 2016). Preorder the book at
finishinglinepress.com.
Congratulations to UrbArts founder and poet M.K. Stallings, who
was the recipient of the 2016 Civic Engagement and Social Justice
Award at Urban League Young Professionals’ Night of the Vanguard.
Jeff Hamilton has started writing a column for the KDHX website,
the inaugural piece on radio formats and recent cultural history:
http://goo.gl/UeFxEu
Nancy Pritchard has two poems, “The Long Way Around” and “Little
Brother” forthcoming in The Cape Rock.
Community Readings and Events
fort gondo reading series. Sep. 10, Oct. 22, and Nov. 11, 7 p.m. at fort
gondo compound for the arts, 3151 Cherokee Street. #38 on Sep. 10:
Simone White & Greg Hewett. #39 on Oct. 22: Phillip B. Williams &
Stacy Szymaszek. #40 on Nov. 11: Dana Levin & Monica Youn.
Prose/Poem begins its new season on Sept. 15, 7 p.m. Stone Spiral Art
Gallery, 2500 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood, MO 63143, Free. Reading Sep.
15: Angela Mitchell and Jennifer Tappenden. For more info, www.
prosepoemevent.com.
KDHX Literature for the Halibut. A long running show highlighting
St. Louis Poets is now on Podcast. Show hosts are Nicky Rainey, Ann
Haubrich and M.K. Stallings.
http://literatureforthehalibut.kdhxtra.org/
River Styx Reading Series - moved to CAM! Sep. 19, Oct. 17, and
Nov. 21, 7:15 p.m. Contemporary Art Museum, 3750 Washington Blvd.,
Admission $5. Reading on Sep. 19: David Clewell, David Tomas
Martinez, and Justin Phillip Reed. Reading on Oct. 17: Sandra
Beasley and Jon Tribble. Reading on Nov. 21: James Crews and
Jacinda Townsend.
Lit in the Lou, 3rd annual STL Book Festival. Oct. 21-22, children’s
authors, literary pub crawl, and book signings.
Oct. 21, location & time TBA: Catered awards ceremony, Tradition
of Literary Excellence.
Oct. 22, Jackson Park Elementary, 7400 Balson Ave, University City,
MO 63130: Free children’s and teen book festival, featuring Marc
Brown and Young People’s Poet Laureate Jacqueline Woodson.
Oct. 22, Literary pub crawl down the U. City Delmar Loop featuring
readings from local authors.
PoJazz. Sep. 17, and Oct. 29. Dwight Bitikofer and Raven Wolf C. Felton
Jennings II. Two “Spiritual Jazz Meets PoJazz” events.
Sheila Nolan Whalen Reading Series at SLU. Oct. 4 and Nov. 8,
4 p.m. Dubourg Hall, Room 409, 221 North Grand Boulevard, St. Louis,
MO 63103. Reading on Oct. 4: Thomas Pierce is the author of Hall of
Small Mammals (2015), a collection of short stories. Reading on Nov. 8:
Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (2015)
and works as an assistant professor of writing and literature at California
College of the Arts.
St. Louis Small Press Expo, 3rd annual. Oct. 14-15, Free. Featuring
St. Louis region small press publishers and indie guests from across the
nation.
Sep. 17, 3 p.m. at McCaughen & Burr Gallery, 117 West Lockwood
Ave., Webster Groves. Joined by poets Susan Trowbridge Adams and
Jennifer Adams.
Oct. 14, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 3716 Washington Boulevard,
63108, SPEx kickoff event: hands-on workshops, panel discussions
and readings.
Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. at Stone Spiral Coffee & Curios, 2500
Sutton Avenue in Maplewood. Joined by poet Dena Molen and one
additional TBA.
Oct. 15, 10am-5pm, St. Louis Public Library Central Branch (Great
Hall), 1301 Olive Street, 63103, SPEx main event.
Open Mics
Every Monday - Venice Café, 1903 Pestalozzi. 9 p.m.
Every Tuesday - Acoustic music and spoken word open mic at The
Wolf, 15480 Clayton Road, Ballwin. 7:00 p.m.
Every 2nd Tuesday - St. Louis Writers Guild has a poetry and prose
open mic at Kirkwood train station, Argonne Drive and Kirkwood
Road. 7 p.m.
Every Wednesday - Stone Spiral Coffee & Curios. Poetry and music
in Maplewood at 2500 Sutton Blvd. 8:00 p.m.
Every Wednesday - Shameless Grounds, 1901 Withnell Ave. 63118
in Benton Park. 7-10 p.m.
Every Friday - URB Poetry Open Mic at Legacy Books & Café, 5249
Delmar Blvd. Doors open at 8 p.m. Admission after 9 p.m. $7. Slam
competition the last Friday of each month.
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St. Louis Poetry Center
P.O. Box 300167
St. Louis, MO 63130
www.stlouispoetrycenter.org
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Membership Form - Join St. Louis Poetry Center!
The St. Louis Poetry Center offers, free of charge to members and nonmembers, admission to our second Sunday Workshops. The newsletter
is sent by e-blast and is available at SLPC events. SLPC Membership
benefits include:
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submit to the James Nash Annual Members’ Contest and its
Annual Concert
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receive online and newsletter professional event promotions
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receive reduced registration rates for fee workshops
Joining the SLPC helps fund our various readings, workshops and
outreach programs. Help us grow by mailing this form and a check
payable to the SLPC to: St. Louis Poetry Center, P.O. Box 300167, St.
Louis, MO 63130, or visit www.stlouispoetrycenter.org/membership
and use your credit card or paypal account. Your donations are tax
deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
This year, St. Louis Poetry Center celebrates its platinum
anniversary! In honor of this, we hope you will consider making
a recurring donation to our Monthly Giving Program. Our goal
is to reach 70 supporters at the $70 monthly giving level - help
us get there!
Member $45
Monthly Giving Program $70/month
Student Member $15 (available to full-time students)
Patron $100+
Benefactor $250+
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Laureate $500+
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