Stop this day and night
By Glenny Brock
If you need a dose of spirituality or poetry or both, the place to get it during the next few months is St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Montevallo. Dr. James Mersmann, who taught American literature and poetry writing for more than 25 years at UAB, is giving a series of “joyful talks” on the poetry of Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Richard Wilbur, Robert Bly, Rainer Maria Rilke, Kabir, Rumi and others on the second Tuesday of each month through January. Tonight’s talk is titled “Walt Whitman’s Great Camerado: ‘Letters from God dropt in the street’” and begins at 7:30 p.m. The church (not to be confused with the local parish of the same name) is located at 925 Plowman Street in Montevallo, at the corner of Oak and Plowman just across from the high school. Future talks are scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 11, and Tuesday, Jan 8.
