Word of Mouth Cincinnati (WoMC), a reading consisting of both an open mic and a feature performance, continues its inaugural year on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 7:00 pm in MOTR Pub’s Sword Room. This month’s feature endeavors to celebrate and highlight the poets from the anthology For a Better World 2014, an annual publication of Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice.

May 2014 marks the 11^th consecutive year that For a Better World, which features poets and visual artists from the Greater Cincinnati area, will be published. It is undertaken in conjunction with SOS ART 2014, a group art show and event of sociopolitical expression for peace and justice to take place at the Art Academy of Cincinnati from May 30-June 18, 2014, which is now in its 12^th year.

This year’s For a Better World is dedicated in part to Aralee Strange. WoMC 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, a popular reading series that continues unabated.

WoMC runs the third Tuesday of each month and is co-hosted by fellow writers Jim Palmarini and Mark Flanigan.

WoMC, according to its website (www.cincywordofmouth.com), 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.” 

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