St. Louis Poetry Center

The Sunday Workshops are the longest running poetry writing workshops in St. Louis, offered as a free service to local poets with noted poet critics commenting on presubmitted works in a friendly and constructive group setting.
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. PLEASE NOTE: Sunday Workshops resume on September 16, 2012 at the University City Library, 1:30 pm. Have a wonderful summer. See you at Poetry at the Point and 2nd Friday Notes; both continue through the summer months. Poetry at the Point has an Open Mic on August 28th. Sign up at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or sign in at the door. 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 12 midnight on Saturday the week previous to the workshop -- thus a week and a day prior to the workshop. If submitting by mail, send one copy 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 48 hours, please re-send or call 973-0616.

With either method, submit only one poem and no longer than one page, in vertical format with only one column of text. This way we can cover the work of more poets during each workshop. 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 2010-2011
Sept Oct Nov Jan Feb Mar Apr	Jeff Friedman Melissa Range Eamonn Wall Shane Seely James Arthur Geoffrey Nutter Jenny Mueller

Poet Critics 2008-2009
Sept Oct Nov Jan Feb Mar Apr	David Clewell John Gallaher Susan Swartout Allison Joseph Stacey Lynn Brown Steven Schreiner Devin Johnston

Poet Critics 2008-2009
Sept Oct Nov Jan Feb Mar Apr	Allison Funk Carl Phillips Walter Bargen Richard Newman Hadara Bar Nadav Adrian Matejka Chad Parmenter

March 2012 Workshop with Robert Stewart

Robert Stewart is editor of New Letters magazine, New Letters on the Air, a nationally syndicated literary radio program, and BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he also teaches poetry writing, nonfiction writing, and magazine editing. In 2008, he won the National Magazine Award for Editorial Excellence in the Essay category, from the American Society of Magazine Editors. His books include Outside Language: Essays (Helicon Nine Editions, a finalist in the PEN Center USA Literary Awards for 2004; and winner of the 2004 Thorpe Menn Award), Plumbers (poems, BkMk Press), and others. He is co-editor of the collection New American Essays (New Letters/BkMk Press, 2006). Poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Mangrove, Stand, Notre Dame Review, Literary Review and other magazines. Anthology editorships include Spud Songs: An Anthology of Potato Poems (benefit for hunger relief), Voices From the Interior, and Decade: Modern American Poets.