Truth, Beauty, and Beer

Mission Statement

Our passion for poetry guides us to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the infinite possibilities of the written and spoken word.

We conduct workshops, contests, outreach programs, and readings to promote poetry in the community.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

SLPC Benefit

p. 1

Sunday Workshops p. 2

Observable

p. 3

Fee Workshop + Poetry Concert p. 4

Poetry at the Point p. 5

second friday notes

+ In the News

p. 6

Kudos+Community p. 7

Membership

p. 8

second friday notes resumes May 13

More info pg. 6

New Website

for the

St. Louis Poetry Center

coming

in March!

THE SLPC NEWSLETTER Editor and Layout: Mazar? Rogers The newsletter is a quarterly publication of the St. Louis Poetry Center, 567 North and South, #8, St. Louis, Mo 63130-3938, 314973-0616, info@.

Member events, readings and kudos are printed as a benefit of Membership. Join using the back of this newsletter, or using paypal at membership.

March-April-May

Spring 2016

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Truth, Beauty, and Beer

Come celebrate the cause of good poetry in St. Louis!

What: A benefit to fund the St. Louis Poetry Center services and activities for the year.

When: Sunday Apr il 24, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Where: The Cr own Room at Schlafly Bottleworks 7260 Southwest Avenue St. Louis, MO 63143

Features: Classical jazz music from

Mt Theolonius, who describe themselves as "chamber folk." Trio pictured right. Esteemed local poets will be standing by to craft poems upon your request for a small fee. Auction items available Light buffet served

Cost: Reser vations made by April 15 are $55 per person. after April 15 and at the door are $60 each. Reservations: To make r eser vations, 1. Visit and click on "Spring Benefit." 2. Send a check to the St. Louis Poetry Center 567 North and South #8, St. Louis, MO 63130-3938

SUNDAY POETRY WORKSHOPS:

Poetry workshops are held the second Sunday of each month, September through April, except for December, at 1:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the University City Library, 6701 Delmar. The guest poet/critic will lead the workshop and provide critique on a selection of pre-submitted poems. All poems submitted will receive written comments. You may submit poems via US Mail or email to be received by 12 midnight Sunday one week 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 email send as an attachment in Microsoft Word document to workshop @ and put "Workshop Submission" in the subject line. Criteria: Submit only one poem, one page in length, ver tical for mat and one column of text. Provide real name and mailing address. Email submissions will be acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt. Call 314-725-0641 if an acknowledgement is not received. Those submitting poems are expected to attend the workshop.

1:30-3:30 p.m.

March 13, 2016

Susan Swartwout

Susan Swartwout is professor of English at Southeast Missour i State University where she also serves as publisher of the University Press and edits two literary journals, Big Muddy: Journal of the Mississippi River Valley and The Cape Rock: Poetry. She's the author of the poetry collections Freaks and Uncommon Ground, editor of Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, and co-editor of three books. She has published more than 100 poems in literary journals and anthologies. Among her writing awards are the St. Louis Poetry Center's Stanley Hanks Award, New York's Rona Jaffe Foundation Poetry Award, the Davenport Award for Fiction, a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship, and Seattle's Hedgebrook Writers Fellowship.

1:30-3:30 p.m.

April 10, 2016

Steven Schreiner

Steven Schreiner is the author of the collections Belly and Too Soon to Leave, along with the chapbook Imposing Presence. He co-authored In Short, a Memory of the Other on a Good Day with Allison Cundiff. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Image, Colorado Review, River Styx and December, and numerous anthologies. He is the recipient of fellowships from the VCCA, Tall Rock Retreat, and The National Writer's Voice of the YMCA. He teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and is the founding editor of Natural Bridge, a journal of contemporary literature.

OBSERVABLE READINGS

Observable begins its tenth year providing live poetry performances! Location: Dressel's Public House

2nd floor, 419 N. Euclid, 63108. The Central West End. Curator: Jeff Hamilton. Donations of $5 welcome.

Please note: no elevator access.

March 7, 2016

Drucilla Wall's book of poetr y, The Geese at the Gates, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. Awards for her widely featured works include the Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Short Story award and the Western Literature Association Willa Pilla Prize for Humor. Dr. Wall enjoys teaching Native American Literature, Poetry and Essay Writing, and American Literature at UMSL.

Eamonn Wall, a native of Co. Wexfor d, Ir eland, is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015. He also authored a collection of essays, From the Sin-e Caf? to the Black Hills. His essays, articles, and reviews of Irish, IrishAmerican, and American writers have appeared in journals in the U.S. and Ireland.

Chad Parmenter's poems have appear ed in Best Am erican Poetry, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, and Black Warrior Review. His chapbook, W eston's Unsent Letters to Modotti, won Tupelo's Snowbound Chapbook Contest and was published in 2015.

April 4, 2016

Jenny Mueller is the author of Bonneville and the for thcoming State Park , both fr om Elixir Pr ess, as well as two chapbooks. Her poems have been published in journals including Colorado Review, A merican Literary Review, Crazyhorse, Interim, New American Writing and Hinchas de Poesia. Gracie Leavitt, was bor n in Massachusetts in 1985, gr ew up in Maine in a log cabin her par ents built, and has lived in Brooklyn. She holds a B.A. in human rights from Brad College and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Her first book of poetry is Monkeys, Minor Planet, A verage Star.

May 2, 2016

Jenna Le is a second-generation Vietnamese American born and raised in Minnesota. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Six Rivers and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora. Her poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, and translations appear or are forthcoming in A GNI Online, Bellevue Literary Review, The Best of the Raintown Review, Massachusetts Review, The Village Voice, and elsewhere.

Nathaniel Farrell, a Pennsylvania native, is the author of Newcomer , a long poem set in a nineteenth-century American "warscape."He has also published poems in 6x6, Greetings Magazine, VLAK, The Brooklyn Rail and The Recluse. He is currently at work on a new manuscript.

Graham Foust, a native of Knoxville Tennessee, ser ves as Associate Pr ofessor of English at the University of Denver. Foust has written five full collections of poetry: A s in Every Deafness, Leave the Room to Itself, Necessary Stranger, A Mouth in California , and To Anacreon In Heaven. He most recently published a collection of translations from German, in collaboration with Samuel Frederick, of Ernst Meister's later poems titled In Time's Rift [Im Zeitspalt].

Fee Workshop

Workshop Leader: Shane Seely Date: Satur day, Apr il 9. Time: 10:00 a.m.-- 3:00 p.m. Location: At a pr ivate residence to be deter mined. Cost: $60 for gener al public. $50 for cur rent SLPC members. Includes lunch. Pre-registration required. Participants: 10 max. Contact: J eff Hamilton. jbhamilt@wustl.edu

75 th Annual Poetry Concert

Date: Sunday, May 15. Time: 1:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. Place: Focal Point, 2720 Sutton Avenue, Maplewood, MO 63143. Purpose: To celebr ate this year 's contest winners! Contests: Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest for High School Students. James Nash SLPC Members Only Contest Stanley Hanks Memorial Contest. Featuring new judge: Kevin Higgins. Reception will follow poets reading their wor k.

Poetry at the Point

The Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, 63143.

Doors 7 p.m., reading at 7:30 p.m. Curated by Drucilla Wall. Assisted by Jennifer Goldring

PoetryPoint@

March 22, 2016

Elbert Williams III is a St. Louis native and former member of the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of MissouriColumbia. He has been a featured poet at Break Word with the World and 100 Thousand Poets for Change.

Victoria Walls, or iginally fr om Nashville, Tennessee, will complete her MFA in Creative Writing at UMSL in December 2016. As the university's current Poet Laureate, her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction are often concerned with the interconnections of race and sex, via the experience of the bisexual and biracial woman.

Eamonn Wall, a native of Co. Wexford, Ireland, is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015. He also authored a collection of essays, From the Sin-e Caf? to the Black Hills. His essays, articles, and reviews of Irish, Irish-American, and American writers have appeared in journals in the U.S. and Ireland.

April 26, 2016

Paul Acker is Pr ofessor of English at Saint Louis University, where he teaches poetry, film, and medieval literature. He earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from Brown University and has published in Boulevard, Scandinavian Review and Puerto del Sol.

Dawn Dupler won fir st place for poetry in the 2013 Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild and Honorable Mention in the 2011 James H. Nash Poetry Contest. Her poetry and fiction appear in Natural Bridge, Paper Nautilus, Chiron Review, Blue Earth Review, and others. In 2014, she published her nonfiction book St. Louis in the Civil War. And, she has work forthcoming in Thinking Continental: Exploring, Surveying, and Inhabiting Macrospace.

Stacey Walker writes poetry on the themes of connection, relationship, and identity. She draws inspiration from exploring the world with her husband and son. Walker has taught at the college level for 16 years and currently works as a lecturer for UMSL. Walker is completing her first manuscript of poems and looks forward to being accepted for publication soon.

Jeanne Allison, a St. Louis native, is Coordinator for the Writing Certificate Program at UMSL. She's grateful to have one of her haiku poems included in the Haiku Walk in the Holmes County Open Air Museum in Ohio and another in the December issue of the online journal, Under the Basho. She is working toward completion of her first book manuscript.

May 24, 2016

William Trowbridge's gr aphic chapbook, Oldguy: Superhero was published in March 2015. His new full collection, Tilt-A-Whirl, is forthcoming in 2017. His other collections are Put This On, Please: New and Selected Poems, Ship of Fool, The Complete Book of Kong, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger. He is currently Poet Laureate of Missouri.

Myrta Vida was born and raised in Puerto Rico, is a U.S. Army Veteran, and currently works as a tutor and translator. She is a student in UMSL's MFA for Creative Writing Program, Prose. Her prose and poetry, in both English and Spanish, have been published in several literary journals under various pseudonyms.

Rob White, a Staten Island, New Yor k native, is a hip hop lyricist and spoken word poet. His style turns away from profanity without sacrificing intensity of thought. You can hear his song "Compliments of My Pride" on YouTube under his stage name, "What's Real."

Maria Ramza-Gay has been an aspir ing writer since the age of seven when she wrote her first poem about God. A St. Louis native, she has been working for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for the past five years. Ramza-Gay enjoys how "the rhythmic words of poetry know just how to do their own thang!"

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