Wick Poetry Center
Scholarship Winners Announced
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2014 Undergraduate and High School Poetry Scholarships! Michael Mlekoday, winner of the 2012 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, selected the undergraduate winners from a pool of truly remarkable finalists. Undergraduate Winners 1st Place: R…
Wick Poetry Center to Host 13th Annual Performance of Giving Voice
¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Wick Poetry Center presents the 13th annual Giving Voice performance on Thursday, May 1, at 6:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public. The performance features local students (grades 3-12), senior citizens, veterans, medic…
Wick Poetry Center to Host Poet MartÃn Espada
¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Wick Poetry Center will host poet MartÃn Espada as part of the Symposium on Democracy on April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Kent Student Center Kiva. The event is free and open to the public. “The audience will be treated to a sampling of Mr. Espada’s beautiful poems, wh…
Wick Poetry Center Welcomes Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate
Celebrate National Poetry Month at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí with the third annual U.S. Poet Laureate Reading featuring two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser on April 10. Kooser will lead a discussion and Q&A in the University Library's Quiet Study Area at 2:15 p.m. Later that evening, Kooser…
Ohio Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts Award Grants to ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Wick Poetry Center
¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Wick Poetry Center has been awarded two grants from the Ohio Arts Council. A sustainability grant of $13,308 will go toward general programming, and an arts partnership grant of $13,958 will support the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas Community Arts Project. The Natio…
