Events
Sally Van Doren: Collected Object
June 3 to July 15, 2021Longview Farm House Art Gallery
Longview Farm Park
13525 Clayton Road, St. Louis MO 63141
Sunday Poetry Workshop for the St. Louis Poetry Center
Sunday, January 17, 2021 - 1:30-3:30 pmThe High Low, Kranzberg Arts Foundation
3301 Washington Avenue, St. Louis MO
Reading and Reception for december magazine
Sunday, June 2, 2019 - 4:30 pmThe Novel Neighbor
7905 Big Bend Boulevard
St. Louis, MO
2019 Pushcart Prize Nomination
November 30, 2018For “Funk” in Vol 29.2 of december magazine
NYC iSchool Talk
Thursday, November 15, 2018Creative Writing Club
New York, NY
American Life in Poetry
Sunday, November 12, 2018Ted Kooser will feature “Housewife as Poet” in his column.
American Life In Poetry
Poetry Foundation
Wednesday, October 17, 2018Listen to The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath’s poem “The Stones” PoetryFoundation.org
University of Missouri St. Louis Magazine “Cultivating the next writers of the literary world”
Friday, June 1, 2018Cosmopolitan Club, Reading and Art Talk
Wednesday, May 23, 2018New York, NY
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, March 20, 2018Reading and Conversation with Al Filreis
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
Friday, March 9, 2018 - 1:00pmBook Signing Promise
LSU Press Booth
Tampa Convention Center
Tampa, Florida
Color Theory
December 2017Review by Daphne Anderson Deeds for Happening in the Hills
Happening in the Hills
Visual Poetry at the Cornwall Library: Sally Van Doren’s Polysemic Drawings
November 29, 2017Review by Anne Day for Compass A&E section of the Lakeville Journal
Lakeville Journal
Cornwall Library, Reading and Art Exhibition
Saturday, November 11, 2017 5:00pm - 5:00pm30 Pine Street
Cornwall, CT 06753
Labyrinth Books with Susan Barba
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 6:00pm - 6:00pm122 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
Southern Festival of Books
Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00 to 4:00pm - 3:00pm - 4:30pmBook Signing from 4:00 to 4:30pm
Nashville Public Library, Main Auditorium
Nashville, TN
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University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize Short List
October 2017Judge Billy Collins chose “I Remember Telemachus” for the short list and publication in the anthology “Irises.”
The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor
Wednesday, October 11, 2017NPR
“The Book of Usable Minutes”
The Writer’s Almanac
The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor
Wednesday, October 4, 2017NPR
“Defiance”
The Writer’s Almanac
Literary Talk Table at the Lotos Club
Friday, September 15, 2017The Lotos Club
New York, NY
Observable Readings with David Clewell, St. Louis, MO
Monday, September 11, 2017 7:30pm - 7:30pmDressel’s Public House
419 North Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63108
Promise Book Signing
Saturday, September 2, 2017 11:00am to 12:00pm - 11:00am - 12:00pmCornwall Farm Market
West Cornwall, CT
Poetry Reading and Art Installation with Pam Garvey
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 7:30pm - 7:30pmPatti Gabriel Photography Studio
6210 Columbia Avenue, St. Louis MO 63139
Poetry Workshop at the 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
February 15 to April 12, 2017https://www.92y.org/Class/Poetry-Writing-Sally-Van-Doren.aspx
2016 Tenth Gate Prize Finalist, The Word Works
Thursday, February 2, 2017“The Sense Series, Volume Two, Books Four to Six”
Guest Poet, Normandy Middle School, St. Louis, MO
February 1, 2017Arts Interview with Nancy Kranzberg on KDHX Radio
Monday, December 26, 2016Http://artsinterview.kdhxtra.libsynpro.com/2016_12_26-sally-van-doren
Reading at Lesley Heller Workspace with Thomas Devaney
Saturday, March 5 2:30pm - 2:30pm54 Orchard Street
New York, NY
Poetry Writing Class at the 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
February 18 through April 6, 2016http://www.92y.org/Class/Poetry-Writing-Sally-Van-Doren.aspx
Reading for the Poetry at the Point Reading Series
Tuesday, November 24 7:30 pm - 7:30pmThe Focal Point
2720 Sutton Boulevard
Maplewood, MO 63143
Reading at the Craft Alliance Center
Thursday, October 15, 6:30 pm - 6:30pm6640 Delmar Boulevard
University City, MO 63130
Reading for december magazine launch
Sunday, May 3, 5:00 to 7:00 pm - 7:00pmKranzberg Arts Center Studio
501 N. Grand Boulevard
St. Louis, MO
Poetry Writing Class at the 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
February 18-April 15, 2015http://www.92y.org/Class/Poetry-Writing-Sally-Van-Doren.aspx
Lit in the Lou Festival, Poetry panel moderator
Saturday, October 11, 10:00 am - 10:00amUniversity City Public Library, St. Louis, MO
Reading at Hunter College, New York, NY
Monday, September 29, 2014 at 7 pm - 7:00pmhttp://www.hunter.cuny.edu/thewritingcenter-ce/fall-special-events
Featured Poet for September 2014
Monday, September 1, 2014http://contemporaryamericanvoices.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/septembers-featured-poet-sally-van-doren/
Midwest Mayhem sponsored by KDHX
Thursday, May 15, 2014City Museum
St. Louis, MO
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair: “celebrating december”
Friday, February 28, 2014 1:30-2:45 - 1:30pm - 2:45pmScott James Bookfair Stage
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
Reading for december magazine launch party
Thursday, January 23, 6:00 to 8:00 pm - 6:00pm - 8:00pmPoets House
10 River Terrace, New York, NY
Reading for december magazine launch party
Sunday December 8, 2013, 4:30 to 6:30 pm - 4:30pm - 6:30pmRegional Arts Commission
6128 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, MO
Reading for The Noon Series, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Monday November 4, 2013, 12:15 to 1:15 pm - 12:15pm - 1:15pmJ.C. Penney Conference Center, Room 402
Guest Critic for the Sunday Workshop Series of the St. Louis Poetry Center
Sunday, October 20, 2013, 1:30 to 3:30 pm - 1:30pm - 3:30pmUniversity City Public Library
Kenneth O. Hanson Award
June 2013Judge Kathleen Halme chose Sally Van Doren’s poem, “Color Theory,” from Hubbub magazine Volume 28.
Color Theory
In May comes the blue window,
but in the meantime, this mean time,
he runs from himself, into glass.
We turned on the flashlight
last night and saw a legless curtain
scurry over a dilated eye.
When it opens again, these anecdotes
will bathe themselves in orange,
ignite and cease to project.
Red is what we really want. Red
in the morning, yellow for lunch
and black at night.
The Loy Ledbetter Award
May 2013Given by the Board of Directors for outstanding contributions to the St. Louis Poetry Center, its members, and its programs.
2012-13 Poets Out Loud Prize, Finalist
Wednesday, June 26, 2013“The Sense Series: Books One to Three”
The Finch and Pea: Mike White featured Sally Van Doren’s poem, “Adaptive.”
June 23, 2013To read the poem and article click here.
Words On Purpose Reading
Saturday, November 17 at 4:00 pm - 4:00pmBlack Bear Bakery, 2639 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO 63118
DIaling Up an Epiphany at the Pulitzer Foundation
September 2012St. Louis, MO Group Reading
Animated Film of “Preposition”
Saturday, March 24, 2012A film made through the Poetry Everywhere program of the Poetry Foundation. Read Poem. Watch Film
Literature for the Halibut
February 6, 2012KDHX Radio, Listen to Audio
Fort Gondo Poetry Series
February 2012Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis MO, with Adrian Matejka
Chance Operations
January 2012St. Louis, MO, with Jennifer Kronovet and George Stair
Buddhism and The Beats at the Pulitzer Foundation
December 2011St. Louis MO, group reading
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
September 2011New York, NY with Jessica Baran
“The Sense Series,” Multi-Media Performance
February 2006Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis