Reading in the Pulitzer Arts Foundation courtyard alongside performances by St. Louis musicians and poets. Free drinks, food truck, limited-edition tees, etc.

Fall Break Poetry & Music Pop-up

5:30–6:30 pm: 
Performances by LéPonds and YOUPEOPL

6:30–7:15 pm: 
Poetry readings by Ted Mathys, Freeman Word, and Kaylyn McKoy

7:30–8:30 pm: 
Performance by 18andCounting

Reading from Gold Cure, discussion, and new book celebration for Daniel Borzutzky’s Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018. Hosted by Coffee House Press and Women & Children First Bookstore. Registration via Crowdcast.

Reading from Gold Cure, discussion, and new book celebration with Yona Harvey (You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love) and Linda Hogan (A History of Kindness) at the 20th annual Twin Cities Book Festival, hosted by Rain Taxi. Moderated by Kris Bigalk.

Free registration and more information here.

Poetry & BYOBiscuits, curated by Carrie Olivia Adams and Fred Schmalz in partnership with Black Ocean, features two regions of poets in dialogue, not only sharing their work, but their questions, ideas, and observations. On October 8th at 7:30 PM Central, please join us for BYOBiscuits with Kazim Ali, Anastacia-Reneé, Chris Martin, and Ted Mathys. 

Register for free on Eventbrite for the Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-byobiscuits-for-october-tickets-120471889665  

Join us on Facebook Live for the joint launch of Aditi Machado’s Emporium, (Nightboat Books) & Ted Mathys’s Gold Cure (Coffee House Press) through Left Bank Books. To participate, log in to your personal Facebook account, go to Left Bank Books' Facebook Live Page, and wait for the livestream to begin (you may need to refresh the page periodically until the stream begins). You can also watch the simulcast on Left Bank's website.

Reading from Gold Cure and discussion with John Gillespie of Stockbridge (MA) Library, Museum and Archives. Noon Central, 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Zoom link available here.

Workshop at the ShowMe Writers Masterclass conference on how poems end. 

Reading in the English Department's "Textual Revolutions" Research Forum. 

Reading with Allison Cundiff the River Styx Reading Series at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Reading at the Reese Gallery with Justin Philip Reed, Alison Rollins, and Stephanie Schlaifer alongside visual work by Ruth Reese and Sam Vernon. 

Reading in the "Poets in the Parlor" series at the Vachel Lindsay Home historic site in Springfield, IL.

Reading in Chicago at the Dollhouse Reading Series with others TBA.

Poetics talk at the Harvard English Department's American Literature Colloquium, with Rachel Greenwald Smith.

One-day writing workshop with written critiques.  More info here.

Reading with Rebecca Wolff at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop in Dumbo.

Reading with Sara Deniz Akant and Rachel Milligan at L'etage.

Bad Blood XXVI with Maggie Nelson, Janaka Stucky, and John Colasacco at the Ace Hotel, PDX.

Reading with Devin Johnston at Sector 2337 / Green Lantern Press in Logan Square. 

Reading with Rebecca Hazelton.  Upstairs at Llewelyn's Pub in the Central West End. 

St. Louis, MO.   Free. 

Reading at the Kansas City Art Institute with Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu.  

Reading at Prairie Lights with Matt Hart in conjunction with the Poets on the Book festival.