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Observable Readings and COVID-19:In the interest of public health, Observable Readings will be offered as hybrid events for the 2024-2025 season. Readings will take place with limited capacity in-person at High Low, and will be streamed live to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s website and Facebook page.
Saint Louis Poetry Center welcomes poets Niki Herd & Travis Mossotti for Observable Readings. The poets will read from and discuss their books, The Stuff of Hollywood (Herd) and Apocryphal Genesis (Mossotti). Suggested $5.00 donation.
Enjoy the livestream here:
https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-september-2024/
Or here:
https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter/live
NIKI HERD
Niki Herd is the author of the poetry collections The Stuff of Hollywood (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and The Language of Shedding Skin (Main Street Rag, 2011), the chapbook, don’t you weep, and coedited with Meg Day Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry, essays, and criticism appear in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Poetry Daily, New England Review, Salon, and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Ucross, Bread Loaf, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Newberry Library, and Cave Canem. Herd has taught at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Lancaster, PA where she’s an assistant professor at Franklin & Marshall College.
TRAVIS MOSSOTTI
Travis Mossotti's three previous collections are About the Dead, Field Study, and Narcissus Americana. His fourth collection, Racecar Jesus, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize (Black Spring Press Group UK, 2023). Mossotti’s fifth collection, Apocryphal Genesis, won the Alma Book Award (Saturnalia Books, 2024). He recently won the 2023 Wales Poetry Award, and he currently serves as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
High Low, 3301 Washington Blvd, St Louis, MO 63103-1118, United States,St. Louis, Missouri
