Research Catalog

Title

Speak a powerful magic : ten years of the Traveling Stanzas poetry project / Wick Poetry Center ; foreword by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Publication

Kent, Ohio : Black Squirrel Books, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nye, Naomi Shihab
• Kent State University. Wick Poetry Center, creator.

Description

xii, 124 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"This beautiful and moving book, featuring a representative collection of Traveling Stanzas poetry illustrations, celebrates the tenth anniversary of this award-winning community arts project. Launched in 2009 as a collaboration between Kent State University's Wick Poetry Center and Professor Valora Renicker's visual communication design students, Traveling Stanzas pairs poems with striking graphic designs. The resulting images, in both print and digital forms, have been featured in galleries, in community spaces, in interactive media, and on regional and national mass transit. Speak a Powerful Magic features poems by schoolchildren, immigrants and refugees, patients and caregivers, and veterans, alongside the work of well-known contemporary American poets, and it demonstrates that poetry is truly of the people. We turn to poetry to give voice to what is troubling us, to honor what we love, to make sense of our lives, to remember our past, and to commemorate what we've lost. Here, it becomes clear that poetry, especially when coupled with the visual arts, has the potential to broaden our understanding and bring people together in ways that more traditional communications simply cannot. While the eye is drawn to the colors, lines, and images of these graphic representations, we are rewarded with far deeper meanings by reading the poetry gathered in this book. Speak a Powerful Magic demonstrates that there is a place for poetry even among those who think they have no interest in it, that there is space for conversation beyond our normal divisions, and that our human responses are more common than not"--

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry

Note

• "Published in association with Chautaugua Institution."

Call Number

JFF 19-1938

ISBN

• 9781606353776
• 1606353772

LCCN

2018053967

OCLC

• 1083673287
• 1083673287

Title

Speak a powerful magic : ten years of the Traveling Stanzas poetry project / Wick Poetry Center ; foreword by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Publisher

Kent, Ohio : Black Squirrel Books, [2019]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Nye, Naomi Shihab, writer of foreword.

Kent State University. Wick Poetry Center, creator.

Research Call Number

JFF 19-1938