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Celebrating World Poetry Day with the Wick Poetry Center Traveling Stanzas

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 4:00 pm Central Time

 

 

 

Mark your calendar for our second ESU Happy Hour in March—Wednesday, March 24 at 4:00 pm Central Time. We will be celebrating World Poetry Day (officially on the 21st each year) with our guest speaker, David Hassler. World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity's most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.

 

Don't miss this thought-provoking Happy Hour. It's free to all ESU members and guests. Invite your friends to attend this next Happy Hour program. Registration is required.

 

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David Hassler directs the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. He is the author of two books of poems, including Red Kimono, Yellow Barn, for which he was awarded Ohio Poet of the Year 2006. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book Speak a Powerful Magic: Ten Years of the Traveling Stanzas Poetry Project, which will be published in March 2019 by the Kent State University Press. His play, May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970, based on the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project, was published in 2013 by the Kent State University Press along with a Teacher's Resource Book. A filmed version of the play that he co-produced received the 2014 Oral History Association's Nonprint Format Award. With photographer Gary Harwood, he is the author of the documentary book titled Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community, which received the Ohioana Book Award and the Carter G. Woodson Honor Book Award, and was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award. With Maggie Anderson, he is co-editor of Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry About School and After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose About School. He received a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University. His TEDx talk, "The Conversation of Poetry," conveys the power of poetry to strengthen communities.

 

 

 

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