Saint Louis Poetry Center presents Poetry at the Point with Chris Watkins & Grace McGovern
Poetry at the Point welcomes poets Chris Watkins & Grace McGovern. This reading will be held in-person at Focal Point, and also streamed live to the event page and to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s Facebook page.
CHRYSANTHEMUM (CHRIS) BROOK WATKINS is a trans poet/writer, environmental activist, and author of "The Drag Gospel of Queer Jesus." Chris lives in North Florida and spends as much time as she can on the water and in the swamps. A proud board member of Apalachicola Riverkeeper, Chris received their PhD in Poetry with a focus in Ecopoetics and Environmental Writing, Poetic Forms, and Queer Literature, studying at Florida State University. Chris now works as the Academics and Partnerships Coordinator at FSU’s Office of Sustainability (Sustainable Campus) and teaches both writing and sustainability courses. Her recent work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem a Day series, in Poetry, Ecotone, and Terrain.org among other publications.
GRACE MCGOVERN is a poet whose work is concerned with the lyric voice, lesbian domesticity and interiority, and sites of simultaneous unease and tenderness—as well as kitschy figurines of all kinds. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. She was born in Rhode Island and now lives in St. Louis with her wife and their dog and two cats.
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