Observable Readings - April 2 with Erika L. Sánchez, Ari Banias, and Aaron Coleman

The Observable Reading Series on April 2 will feature Erika L. Sánchez, Ari Banias, and Aaron Coleman. Brought to you by St. Louis Poetry Center, the Observable Series welcomes poets to Dressel’s Public House (CWE). Reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in the upstairs loft of the restaurant.

Erika L. Sánchez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her first collection of poetry, Lessons on Expulsion, was published by Graywolf Press in fall 2017. Her young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has received a CantoMundo Fellowship, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargeant Rosenberg Fellowship from Poetry Foundation, and was recently named a 2017-2018 Princeton Arts Fellow. She lives in Chicago.

Ari Banias holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College. He is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016) and the chapbook What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You (2012). His poems appear in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Guernica, LARB Quarterly, Poetry, The Volta, and as part of the MOTHA exhibition Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, among others. He currently lives in Berkeley, CA.

Aaron Coleman is the author of St. Trigger (Button Poetry, 2016), winner of the 2015 Button Poetry Prize, and Threat Come Close, released from Four Way Books in March 2018. The recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Cave Canem Fellowship, Coleman is currently a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in Washington University St. Louis’ Comparative Literature PhD program.

Free, $5 donation suggested at door