St. Louis Poetry Center

Observable Readings
for 2010-2011

Sept. 6:  Scott Cairns and Richard Newman

Oct. 4: Carl Phillips and Marianne Boruch

Nov. 1: Merrill Gilfillan and John Matthias

Jan. 3: Steve Schroeder, Eileen G'Sell and Kristina Marie Darling

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Schlafly BottleworksObservable Readings

are held at 8 p.m. on the scheduled dates at the fabulous Schlafly Bottleworks at 7260 Southwest Ave. in Maplewood. Click here for a map. Admission is free.

First Thoughts from
Observable Readings

Jeff Hamilton

Observable Readings launches this fall in a new direction. For five years Observable was stewarded by Aaron Belz, who in his amazing social energy for all things poetic and edifying, founded a series called "Readings At . . ." | Read More

First Thoughts Archives

March Observable Reading

Thursday, March 05, 2009 at 03:41 PM: 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.