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Join the Wick Poetry Center as it celebrates the grand opening of the River Stanzas exhibit at ¾«¶«Ó°ÒµDowntown 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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How do we connect to the Cuyahoga River? ¾«¶«Ó°Òµflowing 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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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…
Wick Poetry Center at ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University to Receive $90,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
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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¾«¶«Ó°Òµâ€™s Wick Poetry Center to benefit from grant
¾«¶«Ó°ÒµFord Foundation to Support the Poetry Coalition with $200,000 Grant
(New York, NY) ¾«¶«Ó°ÒµPoetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.
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¾«¶«Ó°Òµpageant of digits comprising the number pi
doesn’t stop at the page’s edge.
It goes on across the table, through the air,
over a wall, a leaf, a bird’s nest, clouds, straight into the sky,
through all the bottomless, bloated heavens.
Oh how…