Wick Poetry Center
Wick Poetry Center Is One of the Knight Arts Challenge Akron Finalists
We are thrilled to be a finalist for the Knight Arts Challenge and to have our Traveling Stanzas project promote the voices of students, immigrants, and refugees in the city of Akron! ANNOUNCING THE FINALISTS IN THE KNIGHT ARTS CHALLENGE AKRONon Twitter Posted by Bahia Ramos and Kyle Kutu…
World Poetry Reading A Huge Success
The World Poetry Reading was the best medicine for all of the terrible news lately. Over 100 students and community members came out to hear 11 international students read poems in their native languages. People in the audience were literally cheering. Poetry is one of the best ways to share our hum…
Naomi Shihab Nye will speak two nights at 91¿´Æ¬Íø as part of the Guest of Honor Artist/Lecture Series and the Wick Poetry Center Reading Series
Nye will deliver a guest lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 28 and give a poetry reading at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 co-sponsored by the Honors College and May 4 Visitors Center. Both events will be held in the Kent Student Center Kiva, and are free and open to the public. The two evening events will celeb…
Kent 91¿´Æ¬Íø to Host Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove
91¿´Æ¬Íø’s Wick Poetry Center will host poet Rita Dove as part of the Fourth Annual U.S. Poet Laureate Reading. The event is part of the 2014-2015 reading series and will take place on Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The event is free and open to the pub…
Two Kent 91¿´Æ¬Íø Collaborators Win Oral History Association Award for Work on May 4, 1970, Voices Documentary
The documentary film May 4th Voices: Kent 91¿´Æ¬Íø, 1970, created by two 91¿´Æ¬Íø collaborators, is a recipient of the 2014 Oral History Association’s Oral History in a Nonprint Format Award. The Oral History Association is an organization that seeks to bring together all people interested…
National Poetry Day!
October 15 is National Poetry Day! Please join us at the May Prentice House to celebrate. "Celebrating Our Own" is an annual poetry reading hosted by the Wick Poetry Center featuring our high school and undergraduate scholarship winners. May Prentice House Tuesday, October 15, 20…
New Home and Public Park for Kent 91¿´Æ¬Íø’s Wick Poetry Center
On Sept. 25-27, 91¿´Æ¬Íø’s Wick Poetry Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the dedication of a new home and poetry park on the Lefton Esplanade. For more information, visit www.kent.edu/wick.
A Poetic Celebration
For 30 years, 91¿´Æ¬Íø’s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Scie…
Kent 91¿´Æ¬Íø Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
For 30 years, 91¿´Æ¬Íø’s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Scie…
Kent 91¿´Æ¬Íø Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
For 30 years, 91¿´Æ¬Íø’s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Scie…
