How About Now: An Evening with Kate Baer in conversation with Rachel DesRochers

Tue, 18 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm UTC-05:00

414 Walnut Street 11th Floor , Cincinnati, OH, United States, Ohio 45202 | Cincinnati

The Mercantile Library
Publisher/HostThe Mercantile Library
How About Now: An Evening with Kate Baer in conversation with Rachel DesRochers
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The third full-length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.
Renowned poet Kate Baer returns with a bold and compassionate collection that confronts the march of time in a shifting world.
With her trademark candor and curiosity, Baer explores what it means to grow older, to release children into the wildness of their own lives, and to reclaim the ever evolving self. Raw, luminous, and urgent, this collection channels Baer’s own journey to middle age into poems that are profoundly intimate yet resound universally, identifying the beauty, resilience, and fragility that arrive in every stage of life.
How About Now is a striking declaration of ongoing transformation and self-discovery. From the poet who has captured the heartbeat of the modern woman, this collection reaffirms Kate Baer’s place among the most vital voices of our era.
6 pm reception/6:30 pm program
Free & open to the public. Registration required.
Copies of How About Now will be available for sale & signing.
About Kate Baer
Kate Baer is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, and And Yet. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, Literary Hub, Huffington Post, and the New York Times. For more about Kate and her work, visit: https://www.katebaer.com/
About Rachel DesRochers
Rachel DesRochers is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, thought leader on the power of gratitude, community builder, mother, dreamer, author, and podcast host. Gratitude and community are the foundation of everything she creates.
Her diverse projects, businesses and nonprofit are housed under her umbrella, The Gratitude Collective. They include: The Incubator Kitchen Collective, a shared-use commercial kitchen space; Good n' Local, a regional wholesale food show celebrating and accelerating growth in the local food ecosystem; and her largest project to date, Power to Pursue, a women’s empowerment movement offering programming in multiple cities.
Additionally, Rachel is a board member, advisor, and consultant. With more than two decades of experience, she shares her insights on healthy entrepreneurship, heart-centered community building, the power of gratitude, and women's empowerment. As a speaker, she has inspired audiences worldwide with her authentic and engaging style.
Her innovative spirit and community impact have been recognized with numerous awards and accolades.
When not managing her multiple businesses, Rachel revels in being a mom to three wildly wonderful children.
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