Like literature? Like poetry?
The Mercantile Library is hosting a one-hour poetry event this Wednesday, January 12 from 12pm to 1pm. A Profusion of Poets is a kick-off for the 2011 season of the Walnut Street Poetry Society (WSPS), a local poetry group founded in 2004.
Participating poets include Bea Ostergart, a writer and UC English professor, and Richard Hague, a writer, editor and teacher at Purcell Marian High School, and several other local poets. The event will be moderated by Dr. Norman Finkelstein, poet and professor of English at Xavier University and Robert Murphy, poet and editor of Dos Madres Press.
The WSPS says that this year’s poetry series at the Mercantile Library focuses on poetry and inner life.
“Poems, as it were, are places made out of language where our inner life and the outer world meet. In the coming months, we will read a wide variety of poets who invite us to participate in this inspiriting process.”
This event will take place at the 175-year-old institution at 414 Walnut Street in downtown Cincinnati, and is free and open to the public. Mercantile Library members interested in joining the Walnut Street Poetry Society can do so for $30 annually. All others interested can join for a $40 annual membership fee.