2008-09 SEASON
Time: First Thursday of Each Month at 8 p.m. unless noted. Yes, the Post Dispatch is Wrong
Cost: free!
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Upcoming Readings & Events
September 04, 2008: Walter Bargen and Tom Pickard
Missouri's First Poet Laureate, Walter Bargen is the author of eleven books and two chapbooks of poems. His poems and fiction have appeared in over one hundred magazines and journals. His twelfth book, Theban Traffic (WordTech Communications, 2008) was released in May.
Tom Pickard is an English-Scottish poet and the author of ten books of poetry and prose, including The Dark Months of May (Flood Editions, 2004), Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood Editions, 2007) and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
November 01, 2008
Held @ The Way Out Club, 2525 S. Jefferson, 63104 Day of the Dead Beats began in 1997 after the death of Allen Ginsberg. This annual reading of Beat poets features performances by local writers, actors, musicians and personalities.
November 06, 2008: Nickole Brown, Erin Keane, Kristi Maxwell and Cindy King
Nickole Brown is the author of Sister, published by Red Hen in September 2007. Her work has been featured in The Writer's Chronicle, Poets & Writers, 32 Poems, The Cortland Review, and others. Nickole works for the nonprofit, independent literary press, Sarabande Books.
Erin Keane is the author of The Gravity Soundtrack, a full-length collection of poems, and The One-Hit Wonders, a chapbook of poems about rock & roll. She directs the InKY Reading Series in Louisville, Kentucky, and teaches at Bellarmine University and the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.
Kristi Maxwell is the author of Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta, 2008), Elsewhere & Wise (Dancing Girl, 2008), and Hush Sessions (Saturnalia, forthcoming 2009). Her poems have appeared in Coconut, Saltgrass, The Concher, and Practice: New Writing & Art. She currently lives and writes in Cincinnati.
Cynthia Arrieu-King is assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College in New Jersey. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Forklift, and others.
January 08, 2009: Quincy Troupe and Patrick Rosal
Quincy Troupe is the author of eight volumes of poetry and six non-fiction works. The Pursuit of Happyness, a biography, was a New York Times best-seller; The Architecture of Language, a book of poems, won the 2007 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement. He is editor of Black Renaissance Noire, a literary journal of the Institute of Africana Studies at New York University.
Patrick Rosal is the author of two poetry collections; Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award. His poems and essays have been published widely. He taught creative writing for many years at Bloomfield College and twice served on the faculty of Kundiman's Summer Retreat for Asian American Poets.
February 05, 2009: Jeff Hamilton, Stephanie Schlaifer, Scott McKelvie and others.
Jeff Hamilton, Stephanie Schlaifer, Scott McKelvie and others.
February 14, 2009
Poetry Karaoke, bring a date!
March 05, 2009: Michael Dumanis and Jericho Brown
Michael Dumanis, the author of My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the coeditor of Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006), is a professor at Cleveland State University, where he is director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
Jericho Brown is the poetry editor at Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, The Iowa Review, Jubilat, New England Review, and others. His first book, Please (Poetry & Prose 2008), is published by Western Michigan University. Brown is an assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego where he teaches creative writing.
March 17, 2009
Celebrate your favorite Irish holiday with music and poetry at your favorite locale.
April 09, 2009: Matthea Harvey and Mairead Byrne
Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poetry: Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000).
Mairead Byrne is the author of three poetry collections; Talk Poetry (Miami University Press 2007), SOS Poetry (/ubu Editions 2007), and Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Wild Honey Press 2003). She hosts couscous@tazza, a monthly performance series in Providence, and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design.
May 07, 2009: Jeffrey Thomson, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Kate Northrop, Gabriel Fried, and others
The Fishouse Poets: contributors to the forthcoming anthology From the Fishouse, including Jeffrey Thomson, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Kate Northrop, Gabriel Fried, and others
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