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11/17/16 Traveling Stanzas

Traveling Stanzas poetry reading unites cultures

Emma Keating November 16, 2016

Cultures united at the third annual World Poetry Reading Tuesday night in the wake of a divisive election season.Kent community members from all over the world participated in the reading, an event seeking...

Ilya Kaminsky headlines last poetry reading of semester

Keisha Burley December 4, 2015

The Wick Poetry Center held its last poetry reading of the semester, headlined by Russian-born poet Ilya Kaminsky, in room 306 of the Student Center Thursday night.Kaminsky read his own poems, starting...

Case Western University's Shannon E. French mediates comments from the audience after the dramatic reading of the play "May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970" in the Kiva, Wednesday, April 14, 2014. French read a CNN news update from her smartphone about 40 veterans that died in Phoenix just hours after her speech on the importance of paying attention to the needs of war veterans.

May 4 play shows different side of history

Heather Inglis April 24, 2014

Cleveland-area actors performed a dramatic reading of “May 4 Voices” Tuesday, April 23 in the Kiva and showed the audience different perspectives of what happened on May 4, 1970.The play, written by...

Wick Poetry Center hosts Poet Martin Espada

Jason Meek April 22, 2014

Poet and activist Martín Espada will speak  Thursday as a part of Kent State’s Symposium on Democracy.Espada will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the KIVA, presenting a speech titled “The Unacknowledged Legislator:...

New Poetry Park to house the Wick Poetry Center

Jason Meek March 18, 2014

Construction will begin soon on the new Poetry Park, the new home of the Wick Poetry Center.The Poetry Park will be located along the Esplanade near Lincoln Street in between campus and downtown Kent.David...