River Styx – Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century

River Styx is poetry central in St. Louis

Byriehlifegrace June 27, 2008

Poet Michael Castro is the founding editor and spiritual father of River Styx. Since 1974 Karen Duffy has hosted literary readings at her Central West End restaurant, Duff’s. Says Newman: “Our literary agenda is to promote accessible poetry. In the early ’90s, poetry had been taken over by academics. It was obscure, unmoving poetry, and…

St. Louis Poet Karen Smead Mondale: “He would tell you he never was an artist.”

Byriehlifegrace May 23, 2008May 25, 2008

I first met KAREN SMEAD MONDALE, long-time community activist and retired educator, last fall at a Duff’s River Styx poetry reading. She read at Duff’s this week as part of Loosely Identified, a St. Louis women’s poetry workshop, while I was on my Nashville audiobook recording trip, so I missed that treat. Karen Mondale at…