The stout oak table with six-inch legs found in my basement has been used as a nightstand since we moved into this 100-year-old, Sears-built home. I only used it as a nightstand because our mattress lay...
"Mapping Akron" is one of many community outreach programs through Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center. The event showcased live poetry readings from Akron residents and brought a sense of community to those...
Blue lights lit the backdrop at Cleveland’s Severance Hall as performers entered the stage on Monday, May 2.
The audience sat in three collective rows – on the floor, or in the two balcony sections...
As the spring semester begins, it brings with it the 50th anniversary of the May 4 shootings. The Wick Poetry Center issued a national call for poems centered around the themes of peace, conflict transformation...
This pencil is a rope that pulls my heart and brain onto the paper. This pencil is a ladder I climb to heaven.Third-grader Hei Nay Tha wrote these words, which hang on a poster designed by...
Recently, during a recording of a new radio show and podcast from Luna Negra and Brainchild, two literary arts journals here on Kent’s campus (Writer’s BlockCast), I joined some of my peers in a conversation...
A slow walk to the mic.A quick glimpse of the audience before a few moments of truth.“As long as I’m comfortable with what I’ve written,” said Kaela Staples-Still, a senior theatre studies major...
“We are Human. We Write.”The slogan represents ID13, a project that displays poetry and art made by incarcerated individuals at Lake Erie Correctional Institution.The display was co-founded by Halle...
Maggie Anderson, the founding director of the Wick Poetry Center gave a reading of her poetry, on topics from biographical elements of her own life to drone warfare, Wednesday night.“I think there's...
A poetry reading featuring the evocative, imagery-rich work of the 2016 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize winner will be held Sept. 19. Baltimore-born poet Christine Gosnay, the winner of the Wick Poetry...
With Valentine’s Day just several days away, Kent State's Golden Reflections, an on-campus dance team known for its sexy performances, held its 4th Annual Valentine’s Day showcase Thursday night...
Walter Wick, a driving force of Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center, passed away Christmas morning in his Arizona home. Wick, 85, was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.Wick, along with his brother...
