St. Louis Poetry Center

Poetry workshops are held the third Sunday of the month from September through April at 1:30 pm in the auditorium of the University City Library, 6702 Delmar, University City, MO. The guest poet/critic will lead the workshop and provide professional critique on a selection of the pre-submitted manuscripts. All poems submitted will receive written comments. You may submit poems via U.S. Mail or e-mail to be received by the Monday before the workshop. If submitting by mail, send two copies of the poem to Workshop Submission, St. Louis Poetry Center, 567 North & South, #8, St. Louis, MO 63130. If submitting by e-mail, (note new email address) send as an attachment in Microsoft Word to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and put “Workshop Submission” in the Subject Line. If an email response is not received in 24 hours, please re-send or call 973-0616.

With either method, submit only one poem and no longer than one page. Use 12 or 14 point font only. If using a pen name, provide real name and mailing address. Poet should plan to attend the workshop.

Everyone, regardless of experience or membership in SLPC, is encouraged to participate. You do not need to submit a poem to attend. Workshops are free and open to the public. Please scroll down to see upcoming poet critics.

Poet Critics 2008-2009
September October November January February March April	Allison Funk Carl Phillips Walter Bargen


Poet Critics 2007-2008
March April September October November January February	K. Curtis Lyle Molly Peacock Gabriel Fried CatherineRankovic Eamonn Wall Richard Newman Troy Jollimore

Past Critics 2006-2007
September October November January February March April	George Bilgere Kerri Webster Marjorie Stelmach Jenny Mueller Joy Katz Joshua Kryah Denise Duhamel
Past Critics 2005-2006
September October November December January February March April	David Clewell Allison Joseph David Mura Holiday Party Devin Johnston Susan Swartwout David Lehman Mary Jo Bang

Upcoming Workshops

Adrian Matejka leads Workshop on April 19, 2009 (Adrian Matejka - November 18, 2008)

Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books). His second book, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and will be published by Penguin Books in 2009. He is a Cave Canem fellow and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and Pleiades among other journals and anthologies. He teaches creative writing and English Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

February Workshop with Chad Parmenter (Chad Parmenter - February 15, 2009)

Chad Parmenter is currently a creative writing fellow in the University of Missouri-Columbia’s poetry Ph.D. program. His poems have won the 2005 poetry contest of Hotel Amerika, and the 2007 poetry contest of The Black Warrior Review. They have appeared or are forthcoming in The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, Quarterly West, The Laurel Review, The Literary Review, and elsewhere, including The Best American Poetry 2007. Oh, and he is awesome.

March Workshop with Hadara Bar-Nadov (Hadara Bar-Nadov - March 15, 2009)

Hadara Bar-Nadov’s book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (MARGIE IntuiT House, 2007) was chosen by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2005 MARGIE Book Prize. Recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Verse, and other journals. Born in New York, she currently is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She lives in Kansas City, MO with her husband, the furniture designer Scott George Beattie.