Local poets and poetry lovers will have at least two events to choose from tonight (Thursday).

 Richard Newman, who has edited River Styx for 15 years, reads from his collection, “Domestic Fugues,” at Dressel’s Pub Above. Beginning at 7:30, the event will feature stew…

Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your belly grew round with dew. …

                          From Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to an Onion”

If the humble onion inspired a poem, who knows what other…

Four poets included in a new anthology, “From the Fishhouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great” (Persea Books) read at 8 p.m. tonight (May 7) at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood.

It’s the…

Matthea Harvey

Matthea Harvey, who recently won a very nice poetry award - the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Prize - will be one of two women at tonight’s Observable Readings (8 p.m. April 9 at Schlafly Bottleworks).

The other poet featured is Mairéad Byrne, who…

Poetry reminders:

Observable Readings has its monthly free event at 8 p.m. tonight at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood. Featured are Michael Dumanis and Jericho Brown.

Dumanis is a professor at Cleveland State University; Brown teaches at the University of San Diego.

Observable will…

Here’s a reminder that tonight at 8 p.m. is  Observable Readings’ first event of the new year. The poetry series is held at Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest Avenue in Maplewood. The event is free.

This month’s reading features Quincy Troupe and Patrick Rosal.

Here’s…

The poetry lovers who go to Observable Readings have lots of opportunities this week for fun.

Thursday night (Nov. 6) is the regular monthly reading, this time titled somewhat clinically (politically, ironically?) “Four Females.” Starting at 8 p.m. at Schlafly Bottleworks…