Walter Bargen

The St. Louis Public Library is proud to present poet Walter Bargen on Monday, April 14 at 7 p.m. at Central Library, 1301 Olive Street. Bargen will read from and sign copies of his works. The program is FREE and open to the public. A public reception with Bargen will take place at 6:30 p.m. The reception is sponsored by the St. Louis Public Library Foundation. Books will be available for purchase from Left Bank Books.

Bargen is the first Poet Laureate of Missouri. His works have appeared in over one hundred magazines, including American Literary Review, American Letters & Commentary, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, International Quarterly, Missouri Review, New Letters, New Novel Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, River Styx, Seneca Review, Sycamore Review, and Witness. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship (1991); winner of the Quarter After Eight Prose Prize (1996), the Hanks Prize (1996), and the Chester H. Jones Foundation poetry prize (1997). Bargen has written eleven books of poetry and two chapbooks.

For details, call 206-6779.

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4/08/2008