Stephanie Smith, associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism, walked up to the microphone as the crowd fell to a low buzz. In her signature glasses and a statement tee supporting Ukraine, she welcomed the range of “renegade readers.”
Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center held its fourth annual World Poetry Reading on Wednesday. The evening was filled with international students, professors and faculty sharing poems in their native language...
Kent State Libraries will honor Constitution Day on Monday, Sept. 17 with a public reading of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.The reading will begin at noon in front of the University Library on...
“I read to escape to a different place. It’s just nice to be somewhere else besides the real world.”This sentiment from Megan Deierling, a sophomore broadcast journalism major, is common among avid...
Maj Ragain will be reading in the Wick Poetry Center’s poetry reading series Nov. 12 in Room 306 of the student center at 7:30 p.m.“Maj Ragain has taught at Kent State for over forty years,” said...
The sound of foreign tongues bounced off the bookshelves at the Last Exit Bookstore in downtown Kent during a literary text reading in a variety of languages Tuesday night.Students, faculty and community...
About 21 years ago the late David Foster Wallace said in an interview, “I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”In Wallace’s...
