Poetry of Robert Hayden (February Voices for Truth Discussion)

Wed Feb 12 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

Harriet Beecher Stowe House | Cincinnati

Harriet Beecher Stowe House
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Poetry of Robert Hayden (February Voices for Truth Discussion)
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Kick off our 2025 program year with an interactive poetry discussion with professor John Getz and author Kareem Simpson.
About this Event

Join an intimate discussion of literature in one of Cincinnati's most iconic literary destinations--the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. Carry forward its legacy of social change and be part of its future.


About the Facilitators:

  • Dr. John Getz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Xavier University and has been volunteering for the Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House for many years.
  • Kareem (K.A.) Antonio Simpson (American, b. 1978) is an author whose work challenges the notion of societal norms. His work has been published and exhibited across the USA and throughout the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region. Simpson currently serves as the Duncanson program manager at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio.


About the series
Discussion Series Theme: Voices for Truth


We’ll study the writings of many authors from the 19th and 20th centuries to determine

  • how they discovered their voices,
  • the forms they chose for expressing their voices,
  • the needs both personal and societal to which they put those expressions,
  • the effects their work had,
  • how we can develop and enlist our own voices in service of our own values.

Harriet Beecher Stowe is our exemplar voice for truth. During her eighteen years in Cincinnati as a young adult (1832-1850), she discovered her voice as a writer, and in 1851, she decided to devote it to the anti-slavery cause. Horrified by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, she wrote to editor Gamaliel Bailey: "Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject [slavery], and I dreaded to expose even my own mind to the full force of its exciting power. But now I feel that the time has come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak."
The result, of course, was Uncle Tom's Cabin, the blockbuster novel that awakened many Northerners to the horrors of slavery and helped create the change of heart that would allow the Union to stand firm when the South ceded over slavery.

This series is sponsored by School Outfitters. ​

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, United States

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