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Wick Receives Grant from Akron Community Foundation
Dec. 8, 2015
The Wick Poetry Center, with support from the Howard Atwood Family Fund of the Akron Community Foundation, identified classrooms throughout Akron Public Schools to receive weekly poetry workshops led by WPC teaching artists Alice Cone, Daniel Dorman, and Bo Geisse, and Casey…
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Wick Poetry Center Is One of the Knight Arts Challenge Akron Finalists
Nov. 19, 2015
We are thrilled to be a finalist for the Knight Arts Challenge and to have our Traveling Stanzas project promote the voices of students, immigrants, and refugees in the city of Akron!
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World Poetry Reading A Huge Success
Nov. 17, 2015
The World Poetry Reading was the best medicine for all of the terrible news lately. Over 100 students and community members came out to hear 11 international students read poems in their native languages. People in the audience were literally cheering. Poetry is one of the best…
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Akron Community Foundation Workshops
Nov. 12, 2015
The Wick Poetry Center, with support from the Howard Atwood Family Fund of the Akron Community Foundation, identified classrooms throughout Akron Public Schools to receive weekly poetry workshops led by WPC teaching artists Alice Cone, Daniel Dorman, and Bo Geisse, and Casey…
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Naomi Shihab Nye will speak two nights at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University as part of the Guest of Honor Artist/Lecture Series and the Wick Poetry Center Reading Series
Oct. 19, 2015
Nye will deliver a guest lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 28 and give a poetry reading at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 co-sponsored by the Honors College and May 4 Visitors Center. Both events will be held in the Kent Student Center Kiva, and are free and open to the public. The two…
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Overcoming Trauma Through Creative Writing
Oct. 15, 2015
David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center, and Mindy Farmer, director of the May 4 Visitors Center lead a writing and discussion workshop on overcoming trauma through creative writing. The workshop took place in the May Prentice House and approximately 20 community…
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Dear Monarch featured at Integrative Sciences Building Groundbreaking Ceremony
Oct. 2, 2015
"Dear Monarch" is a poem written by Mrs. Vesia's Preschool Class at the ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University Child Development Center in collaboration with Wick Poetry Center intern, Victoria Bracher. "Dear Monarch" is part of the Traveling Stanzas project and was installed in recognition of…
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Wick Poetry Center to Host 14th Annual Performance of Giving Voice
April 8, 2015
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s Wick Poetry Center presents the 14th annual Giving Voice performance on Wednesday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom featuring original poetry by local students (grades 3-12), international scholars, and ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University…
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Rita Dove Visits International Scholars
March 30, 2015
Rita Dove visited the May Prentice House and spoke to the International Leadership in Education Program students who participated in World Poetry Workshops last spring in the May Prentice House. The students were so excited to meet the former U.S. Poet Laureate who gave them all…
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March 16, 2015
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s Wick Poetry Center will host poet Rita Dove as part of the Fourth Annual U.S. Poet Laureate Reading. The event is part of the 2014-2015 reading series and will take place on Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The event…
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