KAAC would love to sponsor another Poetry Series in the fall of 2013 or Spring of 2014.  Is there a poet you would love to hear reciting their work?  Drop us an email and let us know. (kaacemail@gmail.com) Check back here to see the schedule.

From 2011:

The Kirkwood Area Arts Council presents “Poets at the Station,” a free poetry reading series.

Marjorie Stelmach
Tuesday, April 12 at 7 pm
Kirkwood Train Station

David Clewell
Tuesday, April 26 at 7 pm
Kirkwood Train Station

Howard Schwartz
Tuesday, May 3 at 7 pm
Kirkwood Train Station

Marjorie Stelmach is the author of three volumes of poems, most recently, Bent upon Light (2009) from the University of Tampa Press. Groups of her poems received the first Missouri Biennial Award and the first Chelsea Award; she has twice won the Malahat Review Long Poem Contest. Her poems have appeared in many small literary magazines including Image, The American Literary Review, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, and, closer to home, in St. Louis’s wonderful River Styx and Boulevard, as well as twice on PoetryDaily.

After having retired from a thirty-year career teaching English in the Ladue School District and English Methods in the graduate education department at Washington University, she taught the graduate poetry workshop at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and served for seven years as Director of the Howard Nemerov Writing Scholars Program at Washington University. Her third retirement has apparently “taken.” She grew up in Des Peres and attended Kirkwood High School, lo these many years ago.

David Clewell is the author of eight collections of poetry—most recently, Taken Somehow By Surprise (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011)—and two book-length poems. His work regularly appears in a wide variety of national magazines and journals—including Poetry, Harper’s, The Georgia Review, New Letters, The KenyonReview, and Boulevard–and has been represented in more than fifty anthologies. Among his honors are several book awards: the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize (for Now We’re Getting Somewhere), National Poetry Series selection (for Blessings in Disguise), and the inaugural Four Lakes Poetry Prize for Taken Somehow By Surprise. He is currently the poet laureate of Missouri.

Clewell teaches writing and literature at Webster University in St. Louis, where he also directs the English Department’s creative writing program. His collection of Charlie the Tuna iconography is now the largest in private curatorship. And don’t even get him started on the subject of flying saucers.

Howard Schwartz is the author of four books of poems, Vessels, Gathering the Sparks, Sleepwalking Beneath the Stars, and Breathing in the Dark. He is also the co-editor (with Anthony Rudolf) of Voices Within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets. His other books include Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 2005 and Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales, published in 2008.

KAAC is hoping to present another poet series in the fall.  If you have any favorite poets you would like to hear, send us their name – kaacemail@gmail.com.  If you are interested in helping to fund the series, let us know.  We would be happy to recognize your wonderful contribution!