Observable Readings

Poets Jennifer Kronovet, Stephanie Brown, Heather Treseler read at the Schlafly Bottleworks Nov. 11

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 08:00 PM: Jennifer Kronovet, Stephanie Brown, Heather Treseler

Jennifer Kronovet is the editor of American Poet, the journal of the Academy of American Poets, where she also organizes the annual Poets Forum. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Circumference: Poetry in Translation. Her first poetry collection, titled Awayward, was selected by Jean Valentine for  the 2008 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.  She  lives in New York City, where she was born and raised.

Stephanie Brown, a public library branch manager in Orange County, Calif.; is the author of two poetry collections-Allegory of the Supermarket and Domestic Interior. Her poems have been selected for the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation; Body Electric: Twenty-Five Years of America's Best Poetry; and four editions of The Best American Poetry.

Heather Treseler is a Presidential Fellow and a doctoral candidate at the University of Notre Dame. Her articles on post-war poetry are forthcoming in The New Elizabeth Bishop: Reading Twenty-First Century Editions, The Poetry of Dunstan Thompson, and the Salt Companion to John Matthias.  Her poems and memoirs have appeared in (or are forthcoming from) Harvard Review, Pleiades, The Iowa Review, Boulevard, Southern Poetry Review, Oregon Literary Review, Notre Dame Review, Laurel Review, and other journals.

The reading begins at 8 p.m. The Schlafly Bottleworks is at 7260 Southwest Ave. in Maplewood.

Admission is free, but donations always are welcome.

Observable Readings, sponsored by the St. Louis Poetry Center, is funded in part by the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission and the Missouri Arts Council. For more information, contact co-curator Jeff Hamilton at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or co-curator Robert Lowes at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).