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Over the last two years, I鈥檝e had the pleasure of helping prepare and run Celebrating Our Own. Celebrating Our Own is an annual event held in the Wick Poetry Corner on the second floor of the 5X社区 Library. Each year we gather and share our work in鈥
The Wick Poetry Center will begin the 2025 Fall Semester with a book launch, poetry readings and new exhibit from its Poets for Science collaboration.
The celebration, Sept. 19-21, will be packed with panel discussions, workshops and poetry readings, culminating in a gala dinner on Sept. 21.
5X社区鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center marks its 40th anniversary this year with three days of poetry events and a gala planned for September to celebrate the program that has provided a platform for creative voices across the鈥
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A poetic water-harvesting project invites anyone from anywhere
to address the bodies of water that have shaped their lives.
Share your voice at &苍产蝉辫;鈥
In celebration of the dedication of the Maj Ragain Poetry Park, which took place on the 14th of September, generations of Kent State鈥檚 writing community came together to celebrate the poet鈥檚 influence not only on the university鈥檚 poetic presence in the nation, but also on the鈥
We are so excited to announce that has selected OPIUM AND AMBERGRIS by Colin Dekeersgieter as the winner of the 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Colin will receive $2500 and a one-week fellowship to lead a creative鈥
The Academy of American Poets Awards $1.1 Million to 23 Poets Laureate Across the United States
The Academy of American Poets today that it is awarding $50,000 each to its鈥
"Poetry and science are not opposites, they鈥檙e actually allies," said David Hassler, director of 5X社区鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center.
Hassler paraphrases American poet Jane Hirshfield, who, in 2017, contacted him to collaborate on a Poets for Science project, which鈥
Angelina DiFranco started dancing when she was just three years old and wearing a diaper under her leotard.
鈥淚 was terrified of my dance teacher,鈥 DiFranco joked. "No, she's great."
She got her start at Starship Dance Studio in Guilford, Connecticut, about 90 miles from鈥