Mary Jo Bang (Credit: Mark Shäfer)

Mary Jo Bang, director of Washington University’s creative writing program, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her last poetry collection, “Elegy.”

At 8 p.m. Thursday she’ll read from her latest book, “The Bride of…

Carlos Pappalardo and several others will read the poetry of Robert Frost Wednesday at the Regional Arts Council.

Frost is one of America’s favorite poets, of course, but the groupis also going to read Frost’s work in Spanish, French and Italian. Pappalardo, a…

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…

The St. Louis Poetry Center has an October calendar packed with events. Here is its list:

10/5: Members Colleen McKee and Catherine Rankovic speak on “Women, Depression and Creative Writing”
at UM St. Louis in the J. C. Penney Conference Center, 12…

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…

Metro Arts in Transit’s Poetry in Motion contest is accepting entries for 2010. Fifteen poems will ride Metro trains or buses. Here is information from Metro about the contest:

For 2010, fifteen (15) poems will be selected for publication and reproduction…

John Dunphy

Not only have folks been celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, but they remember the 25th anniversary, too. Haiku writer John Dunphy, who owns Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, Ill., sent me an email after reading Joe Williams’ story…

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…

 John Dunphy, poet and owner of Second Reading Book Shop in Alton,  has written an essay explaining “haibun.” 
 Thanks. See John at www.johndunphy.com

By John J. Dunphy 
    Some authors write prose, while others write poetry.  A few try to distinguish themselves in both fields, with varying…

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…