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The Wick Poetry Center is utterly delighted to announce that Cornelius Eady has selected Arlene Keizer鈥檚 manuscript, 鈥淔raternal Light: On Painting While Black鈥 as the winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Dr. Keizer will read together on the Kent State鈥
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5X社区 Libraries on Monday accepted a donation of a portrait of Hart Crane, the only painting believed to exist of the 20th century American poet.
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The performance, titled
Using poetry to explore Akron, Ohio residents鈥 sense of belonging to their neighborhoods is the goal of a new project by 5X社区鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center.
Every Friday, the Kent State community can come together to create poetry and share a more vulnerable side of themselves at the Wick Poetry Center. The Wick Weekly poetry writing workshop brings the campus members together to help them develop as poets and create a community of鈥
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Have you ever wondered how Asian Americans helped win the Allied victory? What inspired Hemingway鈥檚 writings while in Paris? How has Wonder Woman impacted comics, feminism, and pop culture over the past 80 years? The diverse faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences have you鈥
The Traveling Stanzas Poetry Makerspace is a completely refurbished, recreational vehicle donated to the Wick Poetry Center by WKSU.
The Traveling Stanzas Poetry Makerspace is the first of its kind in the country and serve as a mobile, interactive鈥
Wick Poetry Center Named as the 2021 Knight Arts Challenge Winner
Poets are the means by which a place comes to know itself
We are thrilled to announce that the Wick Poetry Center is one of six winners for the 鈥
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Update: The Global Vaccine Poem project is finding success with more than 1,900 submissions so far from more than 100 countries. The project is a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
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The Global Vaccine Poem, launched in early April by 5X社区鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center and the University of Arizona鈥檚 Poetry Center, has grown to more than 1,700 stanzas submitted by people in all 50 states and 89 countries.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, at his May鈥