Word of Mouth Cincinnati (WoMC), a literary event consisting of both an Open Mic and a Feature Performance, runs the last Tuesday of every month at 7:00 p.m. upstairs at MOTR Pub.
Word of Mouth Cincinnati, which began in January 2014, is co-hosted by fellow writers Jim Palmarini and Mark Flanigan. It was founded in memory of the late Aralee Strange who, after many years living, writing and producing work in the Cincinnati area, moved to Athens, Georgia where she co-founded Athens Word of Mouth.
WoMC is an intentional arc of both past and future utterance, inspired by our most revered voice, with a nod to her Athens, GA compatriots. Word of Mouth asks poets to Show Up, Mouth Off and Pay Attention.
Our Feature Performer on September 27, 2016 is Norman Finkelstein (Cincinnati, OH).
Norman Finkelstein is a poet, critic, and Professor of English at Xavier University, where he has taught since 1980. His new book is The Ratio of Reason to Magic: New and Selected Poems, just out from Dos Madres Press.
Other recent books of poetry include Inside the Ghost Factory (Marsh Hawk, 2010) and the serial poem Track (Shearsman, 2012). He has published widely in the fields of modern poetry and Jewish American literature, and his most recent critical book is On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2010).
Norman is currently working on a book of essays to be published by Hebrew Union College Press, tentatively titled Like a Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry & the Jewish Literary Imagination.
