Sachs Museum Performance Series: Poetry and Scents

Devin Johnston will read his poems, as well as prose excerpts, related to olfactory experience, from pink evening primroses to ambergris to chanterelle mushrooms. Johnston is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Dragons (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023); Far-Fetched (FSG, 2015); Traveler: Poems (FSG, 2013); and Sources (Turtle Point Press, 2008). He teaches at Saint Louis University and serves as an editor of Flood Editions, an independent publisher.

⭐ Performances take place at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
⭐ Performance duration: 30-45 minutes.
⭐ Seating is first come, first served.

Included with Garden admission.

You may also like the following events from Missouri Botanical Garden:

• Next Saturday, 21st June, 11:30 am, Sachs Museum Sniff ‘n Learn: Fragrance in the Victorian Age with the Mourning Society of St. Louis in St. Louis
• This month, 28th June, 11:30 am, Sachs Museum Sniff ‘n Learn: Perfumers Spotlight in St. Louis
• Next month, 19th July, 11:00 am, Sachs Museum Performance Series: Saias | Dance and Scents with Charis Railey and Amara Arts in St. Louis

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