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Saint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Devin Johnston & Justin Danzy for Observable Readings. The poets will read from and discuss their books: "Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026" (Johnston) and "Run in such a way" (Danzy). Suggested $5.00 donation.
DEVIN JOHNSTON spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of eight books of poetry including "Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026," published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2026. He has also published "Creaturely and Other Essays," meditations on the natural world. He works as an editor of Flood Editions, a nonprofit publishing house, and he teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri.
JUSTIN DANZY is a poet and educator from Southfield, Michigan, and the author of "Run in such a way" (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press), which Rachel Eliza Griffiths described as “a vision of snare, thorn, tongue, and the endless rhythms through which language skims its wings across the darkened faces of history, memory, and body.” He is a Cave Canem Fellow, the 2019 Gregory Padlo Fellow at the Frost Place, winner of New England Review’s Award for Emerging Writers, a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize. Danzy’s poems can be found in publications such as Pleiades: Literature in Context, Poetry, New England Review, Missouri Review, and Obsidian. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri and teaches English at St. Louis University High School.
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