poetry – THE DEVIL STRIP

Ohio writer Hanif Abdurraqib talks poetry, basketball and A Tribe Called Quest

March 2nd, 2020

by Micah Wimmer Over the last half-decade, Columbus-based writer Hanif Abdurraqib has created a body of work that far more experienced writers would have reason to envy. Each of his four books contains wri... Read More...

‘Isolation and Intellect:’ Meet Walter Delbridge, the man behind the masterpiece

October 23rd, 2019

by Mariah Hicks It was the year of 1979 on a day that was normal to many. But for 33-year-old Walter Delbridge, it was pivotal. Under the smooth jazz of John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, Walter fell into a ... Read More...

Monthly poetry contest encourages children to explore their creative voices

March 19th, 2019

by Mariah Hicks "Poetry: Crackin’ & Poppin’ at The Peanut Shoppe" is a monthly poetry contest that gives children a chance to exercise their creative voices and get their work showcased. The contest... Read More...

Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry, #3 | Dave Lucas, Ohio Poet Laureate

December 17th, 2018

by Dave Lucas “I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it either — at least, not until I learned to stop worrying about “getting it.” In fact, “get” — with its c... Read More...

Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry | Dave Lucas, Ohio Poet Laureate

October 17th, 2018

by Dave Lucas, Ohio Poet Laureate 10/17/2018 Photo by Heidi Rolf. Used with permission. But you don’t hate it. At least that’s what I hope you’ll discover as you read this column. I don’t want to... Read More...

Word Travels: Wick Poetry Center has poetic plans for Akron

November 16th, 2016

by Melanie Anderson There is magic in poetry. It allows a person to share deep feelings of love, of pain, of joy. It celebrates the intricacies and simplicities of language and connects communities through the... Read More...

Where the Rubber City meets the road: Akroning in Bowling Green at the Winter Wheat Festival

February 2nd, 2016

written and photographed by M. Sophie Hamad first published in Issue 16 (Dec. 2015) I am a socially awkward person. The great thing about being at a writers’ conference is that I am not alone in socia... Read More...

‘Further Problems with Pleasure’ | UA Press bounces back with Akron Poetry Prize winner Sandra Simonds

January 15th, 2016

by Noor Hindi Jennifer Moore, author of UA Press’s most recent poetry collection “The Veronica Maneuver.” If you’ve stayed tuned to the news, you would have probably thought that the University of Ak... Read More...

Coming soon: Confessions of a kick-ass poet

December 3rd, 2014

Out of an estimated* 40 billion applicants, the National Endowment for the Arts has chosen only 36 poets to receive the coveted Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. Zero of this year's recipients are in Cleve... Read More...

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Brian Lisik’s ‘Gudbye Stoopid Whirled’ wasn’t supposed to be about the pandemic — but it is

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