Thank you to the Baltimore Ethical Society (BES) of Maryland for inviting me to read from my new book, Singing the Forge (Wasteland Press 2025) tomorrow morning, April 5, 2026, and talk about personal journeys, there and beyond.
BES is online at https://bmorethical.org
Singing the Forge involves snapshots of a personal journey from young adulthood to young parenthood in the first and third sections, from the life of yours truly, of course. These bookends are paired with a generous middle section featuring vignettes from diverse lives of men and women from the last two centuries, including two poems involving Verdun trench warfare in France during WWI, three lyrics by Goethe translated from the German set decades earlier, several poems based on 19th century etchings by Whistler, and also slices of life from a airline attendant in “Winging It,” a retired surgeon in “Ghost Village,” two sisters in “Gertrude and Rebecca,” a daydreaming artist, a snowed-in explorer, and more.
I plan to talk about the creation of this book, which occurred over time, as one way we can think about journeying and what happens along the way.
Cheers,
G. H. Mosson
Maryland, USA
