As schools and businesses close down due to the coronavirus pandemic, Kent State has announced through an email to students, faculty and staff that the May 4 50th commemoration will be entirely virtual. In...
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...
“Traveling Stanzas,” the ever-changing poetry project through Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center, will journey to the National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island this fall as part of the “Sisters...
The Wick Poetry Center held an open house during Homecoming weekend and showcased the Global Peace Poem.The Global Peace Poem, released Sept. 15, is a poem anyone can add to and is in memory of the May...
David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center, said the Traveling Stanzas Listening Wall is set to be finished and ready for the public by the end of October as part of the May 4 Memorial.The Listening...
The Wick Poetry Center is partnering with the Academy of American Poets to launch a web-based version of their program, “Emerge,” on Poets.org, according to a press release.Emerge is a digital tool...
Lakewood Public Library will display the Wick Poetry Center’s “Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders” exhibit to celebrate immigrants’ stories in the community. “Traveling Stanzas” is...
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...
The Wick Poetry Center gathered with Urban Vision students and members of the International Institute of Akron at the Akron Art Museum on Thursday for the first reading series of the 2018-19 school year.Urban...
“Gender … doesn’t … come … naturally,” begins the blackout poem of a Kent State student writing about her experience with her sexuality.“Girls … worry … about being likeable,” writes...
Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center provides a creative outlet for the Akron refugee and immigrant community through its "Traveling Stanzas" project.North Hill, Akron, is home to a wide variety...
The Kent State University Orchestra performed Feb. 16 to highlight student talent from the annual concerto competition held in November at Cartwright Hall.Director Jungho Kim led the Kent State Orchestra...
