Reading Series 2024/25
Reading Series 2024/25 - Events & Programs
Wick Weekly: Every Friday at 1 pm | Wick Poetry Center (126 S Lincoln Street)
Every Friday*, 1:00 pm | Wick Poetry Center (126 S Lincoln Street)
Join the Wick Poetry Center student workers and interns for a free workshop each week. Wick Weekly invites Kent State students and community members to engage in informal writing prompts and activities. No prior writing experience is required.
*Wick Weekly follows 鶹ý's Academic Calendar, and will not occur on days when the University is closed or classes are on break.
A Poetry Reading featuring Dmitri Reyes
Tuesday, February 25, 7 pm | Location TBD
As part of our Teaching Poetry in the Schools project we are excited to welcome Dimitri Reyes to 鶹ý. Dimitri Reyes is a Boricua multidisciplinary artist, content creator, and educator from Newark, New Jersey. As an experienced teaching artist and accomplished poet, Dimitri will work with our emerging poets on teaching practices and also offer a public performance open to all. Dimitri is the author of Papi Pichón (Get Fresh Books, 2023), Every First and Fifteenth, the winner of the Digging Press 2020 Chapbook Award, and the poetry guide Shadow Work for Poets.
The Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Reading
featuring Marilyn Chin and Colin Dekeersgieter
Wednesday, April 7, 7 pm | Location TBD
Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong. She is the author of six poetry collections and a novel. She is the winner of the 2020 Ruth Lily Prize in Poetry, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a Radcliffe Institute fellowship, among other honors. Presently, she serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and lives in San Diego.
Colin Dekeersgieter is a poet, editor, and teacher living in North Carolina with his wife, writer Alisa Koyrakh. He holds an MA from the CUNY, Graduate Center and an MFA from New York University. Colin currently serves as the poetry editor for The Carolina Quarterly and is a PhD candidate at UNC, Chapel Hill.
Nature & Environmental Writing: A Reading and Panel Discussion
featuring Kari Gunter-Seymour, Caryl Pagel, Shei Sanchez, Catherine Wing, Stephanie Ginese, Carrie George, Charles Malone, and Jason Harris
Saturday, April 12, 4 pm | Ohio Center for the Book (Cleveland Public Library 2nd floor, 325 Superior Ave., Cleveland)
The Wick Poetry Center is partnering with the Ohio Center for the Book, Cleveland Public Library, and Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art to explore how writing about place continues to change and remain vital. This reading will feature Ohio Poet Laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour, and other contributors to our anthology, Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park Through Poetry. The event will be followed by a film screening at the Cinematheque at 7pm.
Giving Voice
Tuesday, April 29, 6:30 pm | Murphy Auditorium, 2nd floor at the KSU Museum (515 Hilltop Dr, Kent, OH)
Giving Voice features local students (grades 3-12) and community members. All material is created in Wick outreach programs, including workshops led by 鶹ý undergraduates enrolled in the service-learning course “Teaching Poetry in the Schools.”
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