Engagement

Global Vaccine Poem
Dear Vaccine is a global community poem, inviting all to share their voices to promote COVID-19 vaccination through the imaginative language of poetry.

Sacred Breath
The Wick Poetry Center, in collaboration with the Ohio Nurses Foundation, presents Sacred Breath: Ohio Nurses Respond to COVID-19.

CVNP Poetic Toolkit
This Poetic Toolkit invites teachers, writers, and community members to consider the stories of the first people in the valley, imagine the shaping of this place in geologic time, and reflect on the human history of the Ohio & Erie Canal.

Black Voices Matter Community Poem
Share your voice to the Black Voices Matter community poem.

Untranslatable: An Ode to the Mother Tongue
International Mother Language Day began in 2000 as a way to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.

AWP 2021: Beyond Sunrise
An Interactive Journal of our Pandemic Year.

Vote the Earth: Mapping a Community Poem
As the election approaches, we invite you to help inspire voters to put their love for the Earth behind the power of their vote—to #VotetheEarth.

Earth Stanzas Community Poem
An interactive online poetry project in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in collaboration with the Center for Earth Ethics.

Chautauqua Poetry Online Makerspace
A partnership between Chautauqua Literary Arts and the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas at Kent State University

Why Florence? Community Poem
Share your voice to the Why Florence community poem.

Some Days Community Poem
Share your voice in a community poem, “Some Days,” to honor the vital work of our caregivers during Covid-19.

May 4 Voices
A one hour radio special, available to stations for free on PRX.

Poets for Science: Pledge
Join us by contributing to the “Pledge” global community as a part of our ongoing Poets for Science project with Jane Hirshfield.

Global Peace Poem
A global community poem in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Kent State University’s May 4 shootings.

Armed with Our Voices
The Wick Poetry Center in collaboration with the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State University have created a simple, adaptable pop-up “pinwheel” experience that engages visitors by drawing them into what happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970, and why it matters today.

Sisters In Liberty Exhibition
Created by the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence Italy in collaboration with Kent State University, this exhibit brings to light two distinct sculptural personifications of liberty—New York City’s statue, Liberty Enlightening the World and Florence’s statue, Liberty of Poetry—and urges visitors to reflect on the principle of liberty, personal freedom, and how we experience it.

Writing Across Borders: Lakewood Public Library
In partnership with Lakewood Public Library, the Wick Poetry Center was proud to bring the Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders exhibit to the Lakewood community.

Chautauqua Poetry Makerspace 2019
The Chautauqua Institution continues its partnership with the Wick Poetry Center in 2019 to create the Chautauqua Makerspace, located in the historic Hultquist Center.

River Stanzas at the KSU Downtown Gallery
River Stanzas: A Collective Dreaming of the Cuyahoga opened at the KSU Downtown Gallery to dream the next 50 years of the Cuyahoga River.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park Visitor’s Center
In collaboration with the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the Conservancy for CVNP, the Wick Poetry Center has launched a permanent, interactive Stanza Wall exhibit inside the newly built Cuyahoga Valley National Park Visitor’s Center.

Poets for Science: AWP 2019
The Poets for Science pop-up exhibit stopped by AWP 2019 in Portland, Oregon. Curated by Jane Hirshfield, the collection explores the intersection of poetry and science.

Writing Across Borders: Kent State University
The Writing Across Borders exhibit made a stop at the School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University—the place where the project got its original start.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress and the Wick Poetry Center collaborated together to bring the Traveling Stanzas exhibit to the 2018 National Book Festival.

Writing Across Borders: AWP 2018
The Wick Poetry Center and the Kent design firm Each + Every unveiled the Traveling Stanzas exhibit to a national audience at the AWP conference in Tampa, Florida, in March 2018.

Chautauqua Makerspace 2018
The Chautauqua Institution has partnered with the Wick Poetry Center to create the Chautauqua Makerspace, located in the historic colonnade building on Bestor Plaza.

Poets for Science: March for Science Education Summit
The Wick Poetry Center excitedly joined with the March for Science and Poets for Science (founded by Jane Hirshfield) to bring creative expressive writing this past summer to the SIGNS Summit in Chicago.

Writing Across Borders: Akron Summit Artspace
Over three hundred people visited the opening of the Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders exhibit at Summit ArtSpace. Poets and designers mingled with members of the Akron and Kent State University communities and shared their experiences in Traveling Stanzas workshops.

Poets for Science at the National Mall
On Earth Day, April 22, 2017, demonstrators around the world participated in the March for Science in a call to support and safeguard the scientific community, fact-based decision making, basic research, and freedom of speech for scientists.

Florida Philanthropic Network 2018 Annual Summit
The Wick Poetry Center was thrilled to join the Florida Philanthropic Network at their Statewide Summit on Philanthropy.

GEBG Annual Summit
The Global Education Benchmark Group partnered with the Wick Poetry Center to collaborate in giving voice to attendees at their annual conference Friday and Saturday April 27–28.

Kent State of Wellness Summit
Kent State University President Beverly Warren created the Kent State of Wellness initiative in order to promote a healthy environment campus wide.

Some Days Walking Poem
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Nursing Program at Kent State University, the community poem “Some Days” was scripted by David Hassler out of over 600+ voices of the nursing program including students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

George Mason University: Fall for the Book Festival
The Writing Across Borders exhibit stopped by George Mason University for their Fall for the Book in September and October. Visitors were inspired by the Traveling Stanzas poster gallery wall and created poems using Emerge.

Spaces Gallery Workshop
In a collaboration with the Oberlin College and Conservatory for the opening “The First 100+ Days” exhibition, Traveling Stanzas joined the “Home Affairs” in hosting an innovative poetry workshop.

The United Philanthropy Forum 2017
Leaders in the field of social change joined us at the United Philanthropy Forum’s annual conference in San Francisco to create meaningful dialogue on race and equity using poetry.

A Bilingual Conversation
Since 2015 the Wick Poetry Center staff has worked with Florentine teachers and schoolchildren on a bilingual Traveling Stanzas project.

Akron Roundtable
The Wick Poetry Center was pleased to provide a creative activity at the Akron Roundtable luncheon on Thursday, April 19, before the keynote presentation by Victoria Rogers, the Knight Foundation Vice President for the Arts.