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Baltimore Ethical Society Poetry Salon
Kirk Mullen
BES Member, former BES President & Chair of the Caring Committee

Note: During the summer, we offer Baltimore Ethical Society members an opportunity to present topics and issues of interest to them. Please enjoy these informal Platforms.

For over two decades, a few members of the Baltimore Ethical Society have been gathering on a monthly basis prior to the platforms, to start their Sunday mornings with poetry. The poetry which has been shared has sometimes been composed by participants within the group and sometimes by "famous and not so famous" poets. We gather to enjoy the beauty of the spoken word. After the reading of the poem, we discuss what the poem evoked in us. Please join us on August 2nd at 10:30 a.m. when the platform will be the BES Poetry Salon. Please bring a poem or two to share with the group.

Biography:
Kirk Mullen spent 33 years working with impoverished rural and urban children prior to retiring as a school psychologist and educator. Kirk started visiting the Baltimore Ethical Society in February 1991 and officially joined in May 1991. In the fall of 2003, BES member, Karla Mancero, suggested the starting of a poetry appreciation group. The first meeting for that group took place on the first Sunday in the month of January 2004 and from then on, has met on the first Sunday of each month before the platform. The founding members of that group were Karen Elliott, Glascoe Baker, Brian English, Karla Mancero, and Kirk Mullen. During the summer of 2006, Karla Mancero moved to Washington state and Kirk took over the management of the poetry appreciation group. In 2022, this group was officially renamed, the Baltimore Ethical Society Poetry Salon. It brings joy to Kirk‘s heart to say that the Salon has never missed a first Sunday meeting since it’s

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