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Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center to Host Annual Poetry Prize Reading
Posted Sept. 28, 2015 | Marcus Donaldson
Author Jane Hirshfield will present at the
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Reading,
hosted by Kent State University’s Wick
Poetry Center, on Oct. 6 in the Kent
Student Center Kiva.
Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center will host the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Reading, featuring poets Jane Hirshfield and Matthew Minicucci on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva.
Hirshfield is the author of two books of essays and eight collections of poetry, including newly published The Beauty. Throughout her career, Hirshfield has accumulated a number of literary honors, including the Poetry Center Book Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry, and in 2012, she was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Hirshfield selected Minicucci’s first full-length collection, Translation, for the 2014 Wick Poetry Prize. Minicucci’s work has been published in or is forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2014, Blackbird and The Southern Review, among others. Minicucci currently teaches writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“I think his work is simultaneously deep and delicate,” says Emma Cherry, Kent State senior English major. “I was sort of swallowed by his language in several ways, most prominently with personal connection.”
The Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize is offered annually to a poet who has not previously published a full-length collection of poems. The winner is awarded $2,500 and publication of his or her first full-length book of poetry by the Kent State University Press.
Poet Matthew Minicucci will present at the Stan and Tom
Wick Poetry Prize Reading, hosted by Kent State University’s
Wick Poetry Center, on Oct. 6 in the Kent Student Center Kiva.
“This annual reading is always a highlight of the Wick Reading Series,” says David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center and editor of the Wick Poetry First Book Series. “It’s a unique opportunity to hear a highly acclaimed national poet read alongside a promising new voice. Now in its 21st year, the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize remains one of the most coveted first book prizes in the country.”
For more information about the Wick Poetry Prize and entry requirements, visit www.kent.edu/wick/stan-and-tom-wick-poetry-prize.
For more information about Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center, visit www.kent.edu/wick.