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Join us for a Poetry Month celebration with Poet Laureate Richard Hague and fellow poets.Cincinnati poets Ellen Austin-Li, Phoebe Reeves, Kyra Liedtke, Dick Westheimer and Sara Moore Wagner respond imaginatively to the 1848 Panorama. A reading accompanied with live music by the band Tangled Roots and visuals from the famous daguerreotype of the Cincinnati riverfront. Organized and narrated by Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Richard Hague.
6 pm reception/6:30 pm program
Free & open to the public. Registration required.
About Richard Hague
Richard Hague is a graduate of Xavier University whose work has appeared in Poetry, Smartish Pace, Appalachian Journal, Northern Appalachian Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Nowhere Magazine, Hiram Poetry Review, Nimrod, Mid-American Review, Ohio Magazine, Still: The Journal, Gyroscope Review, The Cleveland Plain Dealer and Creative Nonfiction, among many others, and in dozens of anthologies. He is author or editor of 22 volumes of prose and poetry, most recently Tributaria – Poetry, Prose, & Art Inspired by Tributaries of the Ohio River Watershed, edited with Sherry Cook Stanforth and Michael Thompson (Dos Madre Press 2025), and the nonfiction collection Earnest Occupations: Teaching, Writing, Gardening, and Other Local Work (Bottom Dog Press 2018) listed as “Recommended” by the US Review of Books. A Katharine Bakeless Scholar at Bread Loaf, he studied with Scott Russell Sanders. He has taught writing and literature in Cincinnati and elsewhere for 54 years.
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414 Walnut Street 11th & 12th Floors, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Ohio 45202
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