Past Events

Join us as we welcome Judy Mundle, 2024 Indie Author Project Award-Memoir Winner, celebrating her book The Block Manager: A True Story of Love in the Midst of Japanese American Internment Camps.

This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point, and also streamed live to this event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page.

Submissions Open: February 1 – March 15. Open to all current SLPC members, and to current residents or students in the St. Louis metro area living within a 100-mile radius of St. Louis City.

Home to literary giants Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, and John Keene (to name a few!), St. Louis is renowned for its literary roots. This history lives on in St. Louis’s thriving literary arts scene today. The Literary St. Louis exhibition traces WashU’s engagement in historical and contemporary reading series, print culture, and creative communities to celebrate the legacy of literary arts in St. Louis and the local cultural institutions bringing us literature today. Postdoctoral fellow with the WashU Center for the Literary Arts Ashley Colley organized this exhibition.

Join us as we welcome Jeff Copeland, television writer and producer. Join us as we celebrate the launch of Jeff Copeland's new book Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn: A Walk on the Wild Side with Andy Warhol's Most Fabulous Superstar.

Join us for a panel discussion with five local publishers specializing in poetry, fiction, art, and essays. They will share insights into their work, explore the unconventional methods they use, and discuss the benefits and challenges of operating outside the major commercial publishing hubs. Martin Riker, Director of the Publishing Concentration at WashU, will moderate the conversation, with time for audience questions.

Join us as we welcome Rebe Huntman, memoirist, essayist, dancer, teacher and poet, to celebrate the release of her highly anticipated memoir My Mother in Havana!

Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books, including Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008 and the Griffin Prize-nominated Violet Energy Ingots

Join Left Bank Books as they welcome Eli Zuzovsky to celebrate the release of his highly anticipated debut Mazeltov. Zuzovsky will personalize and sign copies after the presentation.

Join Goodie House every 4th Thursday of the month from February to October to hear poets, authors, musicians and performers of all kinds share their stories.

Join the International Writers Series for an evening of poetry with Oksana Maksymchuk, a bilingual Ukranian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. She will read and discuss her debut English-language poetry collection Still City, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) which reflects on the ongoing invasion of her home country. Lauris Veips, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, will join her in conversation.

Poetry is an art that has always concerned itself with the questions of life: what’s growing, what’s not, what’s thriving, what’s not, what’s being stifled, what’s being fed. The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics is delighted to host Pádraig Ó Tuama as he explores dynamics of conflict, language, rhyme, description, and resolution for this engaging evening at Washington University in St. Louis.

Join us as we welcome Ada Calhoun, NY Times Bestselling author of Why We Can't Sleep, Also a Poet, & St. Marks Is Dead. We are excited to welcome Ada back for another great visit to St. Louis for her first novel Crush!

Join us as we welcome Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author, for her hugely anticipated solo debut!

Join Goodie House every 4th Thursday of the month from February to October to hear poets, authors, musicians and performers of all kinds share their stories.

Join Goodie House every 4th Thursday of the month from February to October to hear poets, authors, musicians and performers of all kinds share their stories.

Join Goodie House every 4th Thursday of the month from February to October to hear poets, authors, musicians and performers of all kinds share their stories.

Join Goodie House every 4th Thursday of the month from February to October to hear poets, authors, musicians and performers of all kinds share their stories.

Join Goodie House every 4th Thursday of the month from February to October to hear poets, authors, musicians and performers of all kinds share their stories.

Join Goodie House every 4th Thursday of the month from February to October to hear poets, authors, musicians and performers of all kinds share their stories.

Join Goodie House every 4th Thursday of the month from February to October to hear poets, authors, musicians and performers of all kinds share their stories.

Join Goodie House every 4th Thursday of the month from February to October to hear poets, authors, musicians and performers of all kinds share their stories.