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Saint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Derrick Austin & Janice Harrington for Observable Readings. The poets will read from and discuss their books, "This Elegance" (Austin) and "Yard Show" (Harrington). Suggested $5.00 donation.Enjoy the livestream here:
https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-february-2027/
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DERRICK AUSTIN is a poet and art writer. He is the author of three poetry collections: "This Elegance" (Boa Editions 2026); "Tenderness" (Boa Editions, 2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award; and Trouble the Water (Boa Editions, 2016), selected by Mary Szybist for the A. Poulin Jr, Poetry Prize. He has had poems and essays commissioned by The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, The New Museum, Craft Contemporary, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, The Brick (formerly LAXART), The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He lives in Chicago.
JANICE HARRINGTON is a poet and children’s book author. A librarian who harbored a secret desire to write, in the mid-1990s Janice N. Harrington returned to an old dream of writing poetry. Every day before work, in the early hours of the morning, Janice wrote poem after poem, especially about her family and memories of the South. This led to her first book of poems, "Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone," winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Poetry, and to her most recent book, "Yard Show," winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and many other recognitions. Her first children’s picture book, "Going North," is a winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award. Her career as a children’s writer includes many picture books, including two picture book biographies plus a popular verse novel. Janice lives in Champaign, Illinois where she regularly visits local prairies, Black history sites, and any place that celebrates books. She is the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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