St. Louis Poetry Center Sunday Workshop - January 17 with Sally Van Doren

St. Louis Poetry Center’s signature program, the Sunday poetry workshop, for January 17 will feature as critic Sally Van Doren. The workshop will be held 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Sunday Workshop will be hosted online using Zoom online video conferencing (until further notice). Visit http://stlouispoetrycenter.org/workshops/ for complete submission guidelines. A Zoom event link will be emailed to registered participants.

A poet and artist, Sally Van Doren is the author of Promise (LSU Press), Possessive, and Sex at Noon Taxes which received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry has appeared widely in national and international publications, including Poetry London and Poetry Ireland Review. Her writings have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and featured by The Writer’s Almanac on NPR, The Poetry Foundation, and American Life in Poetry.  She has taught at the 92nd Street Y and in the St. Louis Public Schools. Since 2006, she has added one line a day to her ongoing poem “The Sense Series” excerpts of which served as the text for a multi-media installation at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and on Instagram@sallyvandoren.  In recent years, she has begun publicly exhibiting her visual art and photography which can be seen at www.sallyvandoren.com.

Workshops are held the third Sunday of each month, September through April, except for December. The guest poet critic will lead the workshop and provide critique on a selection of pre-submitted poems. All poems submitted will receive written comments. Workshops are free and open to the public.

Sunday Workshops will be held online via Zoom (until further notice).

Visit the website link below for complete submission guidelines and for information on attending the workshop via Zoom:

https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/workshops/