This series presents readings by a range of emerging, mid-career, and established poets from St. Louis and across the United States. The 100 Boots Poetry Series is co-organized by Jessica Baran, poet and Associate Director of Curatorial and Program Development at Barrett Barrera & Projects Plus Gallery; and Ted Mathys, poet and educator at St. Louis University. Limited-edition broadsides, created by artist Sage Dawson, will be available for free to audience members, and a selection of the poets’ books are for sale courtesy of Left Bank Books. The third event of the season features readings by poets Roger Reeves and Sawako Nakayasu. We encourage visitors to arrive early due to limited seating. To learn more, visit pulitzerarts.org.

Freedom: The American Hustle, The Poetry Series. The voices of several female poets reflect on the cultural perspectives of the time.

It is also a great time to experience the exhibition and undeniably absorb how our experiences and struggles intersect with one another's.

Featuring:
DuEwa Frazier
Pamela Garvey 
Susan “Spit-Fire” Lively
Nailah
Stef Russell
Victoria Isabella Walls
Endya Golliday

This series presents readings by a range of emerging, mid-career, and established poets from St. Louis and across the United States. The 100 Boots Poetry Series is co-organized by Jessica Baran, poet and Associate Director of Curatorial and Program Development at Barrett Barrera & Projects Plus Gallery; and Ted Mathys, poet and educator at St. Louis University. Limited-edition broadsides, created by artist Sage Dawson, will be available for free to audience members, and a selection of the poets’ books are for sale courtesy of Left Bank Books. The second event of the season features readings by poets Jen Bervin and Julian Talamantez Brolaski. We encourage visitors to arrive early due to limited seating. To learn more, visit pulitzerarts.org.

FarFetched and the Pulitzer present a summer performance series, featuring an eclectic mix of national and St. Louis-based musicians and artists. Part of First Fridays in Grand Center, this installment will open with poetry readings by Cheeraz Gormon, Pacia Elaine Anderson, and New York-based Sabaah Folayan. The readings will be accompanied by music by AndroBeat’s Britt Baker. FarFetched artists CaveofswordS will follow with a live performance. To learn more, visit pulitzerarts.org.

The Kranzberg Arts Foundation and the award-winning St. Louis Storytelling Festival join forces once again for another evening of STORY LOUNGE, a new monthly storytelling series in the classy Sophie’s Lounge at the .ZACK (3224 Locust Street, 2nd Floor, St Louis, MO 63103). 

Doors Open: 6 pm
Storytelling begins: 6:30 pm

Suggested Donation of $5

Come out to read poetry and fiction with Bad Jacket! Tell a couple jokes! Do a magic trick! Grab the newest copy of BAD JACKET! All are welcome to participate.

The open mic will begin at 6:30pm, sign up at 6pm! 

Bad Jacket is a creative collective in St. Louis, MO dedicated to the publication and promotion of writers and artists locally and less locally. Our bi-monthly zine features original art and literature. 

Free admission!

Join UMSL poetry Masters classmates Jessie Kehle and Jacob Stern as they throw down lines of feminism, Marxism and lesbianism.

The Left Bank Books Foundation, Maryville Talks Books, the St. Louis Poetry Center, and UrbArts present Left Bank Books' Not So Late Night with host Cheeraz Gormon, musical guest Katarra & the SoFolkz, and special guests Eve L. Ewing and Hanif Abdurraqib!

Eve L. Ewing is a writer and scholar from Chicago. She is the author of "Electric Arches" (2017) and "When the Bell Stops Ringing: Race, History, and Discourse amid Chicago’s School Closures" (2018). Her work has been published in "Poetry," "The New York Times," "The Atlantic," and elsewhere. A sociologist of education at the University of Chicago, Ewing co-directs Crescendo Literary and is a member of the writing collective Echo Hotel.

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, writer, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of "The Crown Ain’t Worth Much" (2016) and "They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us" (2017), and co-author of the chapbook "Vintage Sadness" (2017). A Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow, his work has been published in "The FADER," "Pitchfork," "The New Yorker," and "The New York Times." He is a member of the poetry collective Echo Hotel.

Katarra & The SoFolkz is a collaboration of Saint Louis born artists whose respective genres (from hip-hop, to soul, to jazz) are fused into one collaboration of dopeness, an abundance of soul. Along with their many friends who join them in performance (such as Phenom Famlay, the Therapeutics, and Owen Ragland and Friends), they rock the stage in their truest and purest forms of Black Girl Magic and Back Boy Joy, thus they are: SoFolkz.

St. Louis native Cheeraz Gorman is a storyteller, poet, and advertising creative, and author of "In The Midst of Loving" (2015). An apexart 2016 International Fellow, her poetry has been featured nationally and she has appeared at TEDxGatewayArch and other venues. She is the founder and executive director of Sonic Arts United and STLNightWriters, and serves as vice chair of Creative Reaction Lab.

This event is free and open to the public, but proof of purchase of any of the poets' featured titles will be required to enter the signing line.