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Celebrating Our Own
Oct. 30, 2025
Over the last two years, I’ve 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 Kent State University Library. Each year we gather and share our work in…
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Wick Poetry Center Kicks Off Semester with Book Launch, Reading and Exhibit
Sept. 15, 2025
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.
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Dozens of Wick Award Winners to Return for 40th Anniversary
Aug. 19, 2024
The celebration, Sept. 19-21, will be packed with panel discussions, workshops and poetry readings, culminating in a gala dinner on Sept. 21.
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Verse That Gives Voice: Wick Poetry Center to Celebrate 40 Years
Feb. 29, 2024
Kent State University’s 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…
Read More »Dear Body of Water
Jan. 31, 2024
Press Release A poetic water-harvesting project invites anyone from anywhere to address the bodies of water that have shaped their lives. Share your voice at https://dearbodyofwater.poetsforscience.org/ …
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In Honor of Maj Ragain’s Legacy at Kent State University
Oct. 11, 2023
In celebration of the dedication of the Maj Ragain Poetry Park, which took place on the 14th of September, generations of Kent State’s writing community came together to celebrate the poet’s influence not only on the university’s poetic presence in the nation, but also on the…
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Colin Dekeersgieter Wins 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Aug. 7, 2023
We are so excited to announce that Marilyn Chin 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…
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Stan and Tom Wick Prize Winner: Farnaz Fatemi's Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship
July 25, 2023
The Academy of American Poets Awards $1.1 Million to 23 Poets Laureate Across the United States The Academy of American Poets announced today that it is awarding $50,000 each to its…
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Poetry and Science Meet at Creative Intersection
June 9, 2023
"Poetry and science are not opposites, they’re actually allies," said David Hassler, director of Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center. Hassler paraphrases American poet Jane Hirshfield, who, in 2017, contacted him to collaborate on a Poets for Science project, which…
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Kent State English and Dance Double Major Graduates Today; Shares Her Incredible Experience with Dancing Wheels
May 12, 2023
Angelina DiFranco started dancing when she was just three years old and wearing a diaper under her leotard. “I was terrified of my dance teacher,” DiFranco joked. "No, she's great." She got her start at Starship Dance Studio in Guilford, Connecticut, about 90 miles from…
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