Poetry at the Point: Jet McDonald & Apollo Chastain

Name: Poetry at the Point: Jet McDonald & Apollo Chastain
Start: 2025-08-26T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Focal Point Concerts

Schedule

Tue, 26 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Focal Point Concerts | Richmond Heights, MO

Poetry at the Point readings are offered as hybrid events. Readings will take place in-person at Focal Point, and will be streamed live to Saint Louis Poetry Center’s website and Facebook page.

Saint Louis Poetry Center welcomes Jet McDonald & Apollo Chastain for Poetry at the Point. The poets will read from current and new work at 7:30pm CT.

Enjoy the livestream here:
https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-august-2025/

Or here:
https://www.facebook.com/stlouispoetrycenter/live

JET MCDONALD
Jet McDonald (they/he) is a writer, dancer, and aspiring mime. By day they work as a communications professional based here in St. Louis. Their work has appeared in places like the RFT and Typehouse Literary Magazine, which nominated one of their poems for a Pushcart Prize. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) and served as UMSL’s sixth Poet Laureate. Lately Jet is most interested in cross-genre work. They are lucky to have a community of loved ones who embody how great the world could really be.

APOLLO CHASTAIN
Apollo Chastain (ze/hir, he/him) is either crying in the club or crying in the archive. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets College Prize and nominee for a Pushcart Prize, Apollo’s creative and academic work has been supported by Tin House and the Smithsonian Institution and appears or is forthcoming in journals including Poets.org, Meridian, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Ninth Letter, and RHINO, among others. Ze is an MFA candidate in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. Visit hir at apollopoet.wordpress.com, or on Instagram @apollo.chastain.

For more information on how to attend and view the livestream, https://stlouispoetrycenter.org/events/poetry-at-the-point-august-2025/

Series curated by Kenneth Pruitt & Macallan Lay