Observable Readings – Fall 2023
Matt Donovan & Elizabeth Hoover
Monday, September 18
7:00 p.m. (CDT) – In-person at High Low + Livestream Event
$5 | suggested donation
Enjoy the livestream here:
https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/observable-readings-september-2023
Or here:
https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter/live
ABOUT THE POETS
MATT DONOVAN is the author, most recently, of The Dug-Up Gun Museum (BOA 2022) and Missing Department (Visual Studies Workshop, Fall 2023), a collection of art and poetry made in collaboration with the artist Ligia Bouton. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Rome Prize in Literature, a Pushcart Prize, the Levis Reading Prize, and an NEA Fellowship in Literature. Donovan serves as Director of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.
ELIZABETH HOOVER is the author of the archive is all in present tense, winner of the 2021 Barrow Street Book Prize. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in the North American Review, Kenyon Review, and StoryQuarterly. She teaches in the English Department at Webster University in St. Louis.
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