Observable Readings - Heather Tone and Jenny Johnson, March 5

The Observable Reading Series on March 5 will feature Heather Tone and Jenny Johnson. 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.

HEATHER TONE received her MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Fence, and elsewhere.

JENNY JOHNSON is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017).  Her honors include a 2015 Whiting Award and a 2016-17 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, New England Review, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. With a BA/MT from the University of Virginia, she taught public school in San Francisco, and she spent ten summers on the staff of the UVA Young Writer’s Workshop. She earned an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She is a Contributing Editor at Waxwing Literary Journal. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program.