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As part of the Georgia K. Johnston Writer-in-Residence Program, SLU's Department of English will host poet Hoa Nguyen from February 24-28, 2025. During her visit she will meet and workshop with undergraduate and graduate students.

Nguyen will read from her latest collection of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, in room 142 of Adorjan Hall.

All are welcome to join; admission is free of charge.

Author biography

Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books, including Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008 and the Griffin Prize-nominated Violet Energy Ingots. Her latest collection of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, was a finalist for a 2021 National Book Award, the General Governor鈥檚 Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Nguyen lives in Toronto with her family, where she serves as a visiting practitioner for the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University and as a mentor for writers in the graduate programs at Guelph University and the University of Toronto. She is a member of She Who Has No Masters (SWHNM), a Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diasporic transnational collective of cis, trans, and nonbinary women/womyn, and founding mentor of the SWHNM mentorship. In 2019, her body of work was nominated for a Neustadt Prize for Literature, a prestigious international literary award.

As part of the Georgia K. Johnston Writer-in-Residence Program, SLU's Department of English will host poet Hoa Nguyen from February 24-28, 2025. During her visit she will meet and workshop with undergraduate and graduate students.

Nguyen will host a poetry craft talk at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27, in room 142 of Adorjan Hall.

All are welcome to join; admission is free of charge.

Author biography:

Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books, including Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008 and the Griffin Prize-nominated Violet Energy Ingots. Her latest collection of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, was a finalist for a 2021 National Book Award, the General Governor鈥檚 Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Nguyen lives in Toronto with her family, where she serves as a visiting practitioner for the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University and as a mentor for writers in the graduate programs at Guelph University and the University of Toronto. She is a member of She Who Has No Masters (SWHNM), a Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diasporic transnational collective of cis, trans, and nonbinary women/womyn, and founding mentor of the SWHNM mentorship. In 2019, her body of work was nominated for a Neustadt Prize for Literature, a prestigious international literary award.

Women鈥檚 History at Bellefontaine Cemetery
March is Women鈥檚 History Month. Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum is the final resting place of several strong, inspirational women who have impacted history as we know it. This list includes a Nobel prize-winning scientist (Gerty Cori), a Pulitzer-prize winning poet (Sara Teasdale), an Olympic gold medalist (Martha N. Brown), an author of one of the world鈥檚 most widely read cookbooks (Irma Rombauer), a survivor of the Titanic (Elisabeth W. Robert), a spy (Margaret McClure), the 鈥淢other of Kindergarten鈥� (Susan Blow), and generations of suffragists who fought tirelessly to secure the right to vote for women

Join us for an exciting, 50-minute Zoom presentation as we explore the rich heritage of women鈥檚 history connected to Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum. Watch on your phone or computer from the comfort of your home or wherever you may be! These free online presentations are from 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Sign up now!

Promoting literacy and freedom of expression, the Pulitzer invites you to join us for Banned Book Club. Inspired by Scott Burton: Shape Shift, the banned books focus on LGBTQ+ identity.

Over 10,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2023-2024 school year, nearly three times the number banned during the previous year. Overwhelmingly, book bans target books on race or racism or featuring characters of color, as well as books with LGBTQ+ characters. We look forward to discussing a few of these books and the important themes they cover.

Meet us at the museum on the second Thursday of each month throughout the exhibition to enjoy light refreshments and discuss the novel of the month with guest facilitators, Sarah Tisdale and Kea Wilson.

If you need to purchase a copy, we are partnering with Left Bank Books and participants will receive 20% off the chosen novel of the month. You can also purchase the novel of the month at the museum front desk or get in touch with your local library.

Novels:

October 10th: Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo 鈥� with facilitator Sarah Tisdale

November 14th: All Boys Aren鈥檛 Blue by George M. Johnson 鈥� with facilitator Sarah Tisdale

December 12th: Giovanni鈥檚 Room by James Baldwin 鈥� with facilitator Kea Wilson

January 9th: Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg 鈥� with facilitator Kea Wilson

Space is limited. This program is recommended for ages 16 and up. Individual registration is required. Please contact programs@pulitzerarts.org if you require any accommodations to participate.

The annual Mary Strauss Women in the Arts lecture will be given by Furio Rinaldi, Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Join Rinaldi in revisiting the path-defining career, layered artistry, and adventurous life of Tamara de Lempicka, one of the great protagonists of the artistic scene in the early 20th century. This lecture is in conjunction with the first US-museum retrospective of de Lempicka鈥檚 work in San Francisco and Houston, and in preparation for SLAM鈥檚 upcoming exhibition "Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France."

This program is supported by the Mary Strauss Women in the Arts Endowment.

Join us Monday, March 17, at 5:30 p.m., for the Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture with artist EJ Hauser.

Hauser (they/them) lives and works in Brooklyn and Upstate New York, and is represented by Derek Eller Gallery in New York City and Haverkampf & Leistenschneider in Berlin. Hauser鈥檚 paintings are both graphic and open to interpretation, teetering between iconography and something familiar but abstract. This imagery shifts between omnivorous references both ancient and current 鈥� the paintings are mysterious talismans, employing buzzing pallets and marks that dance. Stuttering lines form a visual code like musical notes, which coalesce with atmospheric layers to create ineffable messages.

This event is part of the Sam Fox School鈥檚 Public Lecture Series and is free and open to the public. The lecture will take place in Steinberg Hall.

Free parking is available in the East End Garage beginning at 5:00 p.m. Enter the garage from Forsyth Boulevard or Forest Park Parkway.

Image: EJ Hauser, 鈥淐herry Haze,鈥� 2023-24. Acrylic on canvas, 20脳16 inches. (Image courtesy of the artist)

In connection with Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, artist Nora Naranjo Morse will share stories from Pueblo clay workers past and present. Listen as her stories create a deeper appreciation of the exhibition and speak to the power of the land and her people.

Explore the intersection of care in nurturing spaces. Panelists will discuss how their artistic practices contribute to self and community care in a discussion moderated by Maggie Brown-Peoples, the 2024鈥�2026 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow.

This program is supported by the Mary Strauss Women in the Arts Endowment.

1904 World鈥檚 Fair and Bellefontaine Cemetery
Over 120 years ago, St. Louis welcomed 20 million visitors to the Grandest of World鈥檚 Fairs from April 30 through December 1, 1904. David R. Francis, President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, was vital in securing this event for the City of St. Louis. All eyes turned to St. Louis as the new century was on display in the fair鈥檚 larger-than-life palaces, and new technology was front and center throughout the Fair Grounds. In our presentation, we will identify and explain some of the key figures in the creation and execution of the 1904 World鈥檚 Fair. Those who are featured in these presentations are forever at rest at Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum.