The still fresh-off-the-presses Stirrup Pants Chapbooks (2122 Cherokee Street), St. Louis' only bookstore specializing in chapbooks, hosts a delightful evening of live poetry readings with our neighbors from the South. One Hot Night features the poets of Arkansas' Cannibal Press performing their Burning Chair series. Participating poets include Stephanie Anderson, Julie Dill, MC Hyland and Nate Slawson. Get there by 8 p.m., otherwise you'll be that irritated audience member in the back who has to keep craning her neck from one side to the other. There is no admission fee, but donations are warmly welcome. For more information visit the shop's blog at www.stirruppants.blogspot.com, or check out Cannibal Press' blog at www.fleasheatingpoems.blogspot.com.
Sat., Jan. 23, 2010