Traveling Stanzas

We loved having the students from various Jamestown high schools at our exhibit in Chautauqua. Stop by our exhibit in the Hulquist Center to check out their work on our Share Wall and to add your voice as well.

Excited for our Traveling Stanzas exhibit to be at Lakewood Public Library all of March and April!

Here's a peek at Traveling Stanzas, now open through April 30 in the Main Library Second Floor Gallery. We are proud to partner with Wick Poetry Center to bring Traveling Stanzas to Lakewood. This interactive exhibit features creative writing tools, and celebrates the unique experiences of immigrants in our community.

Traveling Stanzas began as a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center and Kent State University School of Visual Communication Design's Valora Renicker (associate professor). Ten years, later, it is a leading international poetry exhibit pioneering state-of-the-art digital tools.

Join us the next five weeks for Celebrating 10 Years of Traveling Stanzas Exhibit. The opening reception will feature remarks and a poetry reading this Thursday, Jan. 24 in Taylor Hall.

Many thanks to all the Chautauqua poets who read their work yesterday for Stanzas on the Plaza. The audience enjoyed such a diverse range of poetry styles. Your gorgeous words even cleared up the rain!🌈

A couple moments from last night as part of “As One” Community Day. The Chautauqua Opera Company is presenting the “As One” chamber opera on Tuesday, Aug. 7. Visitors explored the role of arts and global understanding in relation to poetry at our Traveling Stanzas Makerspace.

We were so glad to have Mary McElveen, poet laureate emerita of Alexandria, Virginia, here at our Traveling Stanzas Chautauqua Makerspace. So much poetry love in the air on this sunny Saturday.🌞

Thanks to the readers and listeners who came out to Stanzas on the Plaza here in Chautauqua. We love hearing your work! Keep sharing your powerful voices!

Roe Green, a Kent State University alumna and arts patron, visited the Chautauqua Makerspace today and learned about the evolution of Traveling Stanzas. The university’s Roe Green Center for the School of Theatre and Dance is named after her. Thanks for stopping in to see our work!

, the author of Other Russias, visited our makerspace this morning & made a poem from our create a stanza wall. Thank you for visiting! We are grateful to have so many creatives visit this space.

Here’s a quote from our makerspace at the Chautauqua Institute. Our question to you: Why do you read?