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Celebrating Tommy Freeman's Life
Oct. 7, 2019
The Wick Poetry Center kicked off its 2019-20 event series year on September 13 with a celebration of Tommy Freeman’s life. The event was held in Room 120 of the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design with a reception afterward that expanded into the Wick Poetry Center…
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KSU’s Traveling Stanzas headed to Ellis Island
Aug. 4, 2019
The Kent State University Wick Poetry Center’s “Traveling Stanzas” project, part of its effort to facilitate a global conversation that enhances person to person communication, arrives at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration this fall.
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Wick Poetry Center commemorates river burning with interactive poetry exhibit, community poem
June 5, 2019
Join the Wick Poetry Center as it celebrates the grand opening of the River Stanzas exhibit at The Downtown Gallery, 141 E Main St., on Friday at 5 p.m. Nearly 50 years ago to the day, the Cuyahoga River caught fire, prompting national conversations about clean water and…
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Concrete Poetry: Celebrating the Cuyahoga River
March 1, 2019
How do we connect to the Cuyahoga River? The flowing water touches our emotions, our communities, our environment and our history. In this 50th anniversary year of the last Cuyahoga River fire, the Concrete Poetry project invites us to reconsider and reconnect to the river and…
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Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center to Receive $90,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
May 15, 2018
Nearly a half century ago, sparks from a passing train not only set fire to oil-slicked debris on the Cuyahoga River, which sent flames five-stories high, it ignited the river’s reputation as one of the most polluted in the United States. Since then, clean-up efforts have helped…
Read More »Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University to Receive $90,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
May 10, 2018
Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University to Receive $90,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Read More »Wick Poetry Center visits Skeels youth
July 29, 2017
There are no right or wrong answers when it comes to sharing a poem, youngsters in the Skeels Summer Youth Program learned recently. And writing a poem can be a lot of fun, especially when you team up to do it.
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The Ford Foundation to Support the Poetry Coalition With $200,000 Grant
July 7, 2017
Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center to benefit from grant
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The Ford Foundation to Support the Poetry Coalition with $200,000 Grant
July 6, 2017
The Ford Foundation to Support the Poetry Coalition with $200,000 Grant (New York, NY) The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.
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