Jason Blakely offers area poets voices with heart through Poetry Is Life Publishing Arts May 3rd, 2021 158
Eat Speak Love’s subscription boxes offer Akronites rotating products from local businesses Black Businesses February 1st, 2021 4 min read 492
Ohio writer Hanif Abdurraqib talks poetry, basketball and A Tribe Called Quest Arts March 2nd, 2020 0 10 min read 173by Micah Wimmer Over the last half-decade, Columbus-based writer Hanif Abdurraqib has created a body of work that far more...
‘Isolation and Intellect:’ Meet Walter Delbridge, the man behind the masterpiece Arts October 23rd, 2019 0 3 min read 234by Mariah Hicks It was the year of 1979 on a day that was normal to many. But for 33-year-old...
Monthly poetry contest encourages children to explore their creative voices Arts March 19th, 2019 0 2 min read 167by Mariah Hicks “Poetry: Crackin’ & Poppin’ at The Peanut Shoppe” is a monthly poetry contest that gives children a...
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry, #3 | Dave Lucas, Ohio Poet Laureate Arts December 17th, 2018 0 4 min read 82by Dave Lucas “I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it...
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry | Dave Lucas, Ohio Poet Laureate Arts October 17th, 2018 0 5 min read 59by Dave Lucas, Ohio Poet Laureate 10/17/2018 But you don’t hate it. At least that’s what I hope you’ll discover...
Word Travels: Wick Poetry Center has poetic plans for Akron Arts November 16th, 2016 0 2 min read 113by Melanie Anderson There is magic in poetry. It allows a person to share deep feelings of love, of pain,...
Where the Rubber City meets the road: Akroning in Bowling Green at the Winter Wheat Festival featured February 2nd, 2016 0 4 min read 103 written and photographed by M. Sophie Hamad first published in Issue 16 (Dec. 2015) I am a socially awkward...
‘Further Problems with Pleasure’ | UA Press bounces back with Akron Poetry Prize winner Sandra Simonds Books January 15th, 2016 1 4 min read 376by Noor Hindi If you’ve stayed tuned to the news, you would have probably thought that the University of Akron...
Coming soon: Confessions of a kick-ass poet featured December 3rd, 2014 0 1 min read 144Out 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...
