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This January, UrbArts began a new fellowship program in an effort to develop aspiring arts administrators in the community. Senior at Missouri State University and St. Louis native Taylor Vinson has been selected as the first UrbArts Fellow and will be laying the foundation of the fellowship program in the future. Taylor is the Founder of Untamed Tongues Poetry Collective on the Missouri State University campus and has been active in serving the St. Louis…

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own – Audre Lorde   QUEENS PLEASURE features works specifically addressing the issues intersectional women face in a society catering to cis males addressing topics such as reproductive rights, rights surrounding sexual/physical violence, and civil rights among countless other rights pertaining ​to ​intersectional ​feminism/womanism. Intersectional feminism is a term coined by civil rights activist and professor Kimberlé…

The Brick City Poetry Festival returns for its third year October 19th and will host events through Sunday, October 22nd at venues throughout the Greater St. Louis area. This year, Quincy Troupe is slated to give the keynote address on Sunday at 3:00 pm at the Missouri History Museum. Brick City will offer pre-festival events this year that will include a River Styx reading at the Contemporary Arts Museum that Monday , a Eugene B….

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Festival Expands, Quincy Troupe to Keynote The Brick City Poetry Festival will be held Thursday, October 19th through Sunday, October 22nd at venues throughout the Greater St. Louis area. This year, Quincy Troupe is slated to give the keynote address on Sunday at 3:00 pm at the Missouri History Museum. Brick City will offer pre-festival events this year that will include a River Styx reading at the Contemporary Arts Museum that Monday , a Eugene B….

VerbQuake Youth Poetry Slam is a teen performing arts program. It is critical literacy. It is reading everyday life as text. It is treating revision as sharpening blades. It is cross-stitched quilts. It is liberation from labels. It is refusing the master’s tools or using them to tear down old frameworks. It is a platform for ideas. It is a safe space. It is a brave space. It is an open space. It is an…

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