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Featured Poets |
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Hart Crane
Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, Harold Hart Crane combined the influences of European literature and traditional versification with his own American sensibility. Publication of The Bridge in 1930 brought Crane accolades and a lasting legacy. |
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Richard Howard
Richard Howard is the author of eleven volumes of poetry and over 150 translations. He has received numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Untitled Subjects and served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He was Born in Cleveland, Ohio. |
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Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, was associated with the New York School of poetry, and his many volumes of poetry include One Train and On the Great Atlantic Rainway, Selected Poems 1950-1988 which together earned him the Bollingen Prize in 1995. |
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Other Ohio Poets
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Literary organizations & centers |
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Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Featuring conferences, prizes, events, publications, and an author database, the CSU Poetry Center is also the exclusive distributor for Bit Press Publications' archives.
The Inkwell Writers Group
A Cincinnati-based writers group that has a Yahoo group list and meets once a month.
Ohio Arts Council
Issues grants to individuals and organizations, and helps to enhance the growth of the arts through workshops, institutes, symposiums, and an Artist in Residence Program.
Ohioana Library
Ohioana's current holdings include over 40,000 books and biographical files on more than 20,000 Ohio writers, artists, musicians, and other notable Ohioans. They sponsor the Ohioana Awards and publish the Ohioana Quarterly.
Paul Laurence Dunbar Memorial
This Italianate turn-of-the-century structure was the final home of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, who, during his short lifetime, became known as the poet laureate of African Americans. The Memorial exhibits Dunbar's literary treasures, many of his personal items, and his family's furnishings.
Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland
Since 1974, the League has invited readers to join writers in workshops, poetry readings, performances and classes. PWLGC also publishes Ohio Writer, a bi-monthly magazine linking writers throughout the state; poetry chapbooks; and a monthly literary calendar that is mailed to 3,000 arts patrons.
Wired for Books
A collection of two-minute interviews with well-known authors, presented by the Ohio University Telecommunications Center. |
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Literary journals & small presses |
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The Antioch Review
The Antioch Review, founded in 1941, is one of the oldest, continuously publishing literary magazines in America.
Artful Dodge
Publishes works "with a strong sense of place," including translations.
Bottom Dog Press
Based out of Huron, Bottom Dog Press is a non-profit literary and educational organization dedicated to publishing the best writing and art from the Midwest and beyond.
The Cincinnati Review
"A new journal devoted the "the finest creative and critical work from across the country. [They] provide a venue for writers of any background, at any point in their literary careers, to showcase their best writing."
FIELD/Oberlin College Press
FIELD sponsors an annual poetry book contest, and publishes a poetry series as well as a translation series.
Hiram Poetry Review
The literary journal of Hiram College features distinctive, witty, and heroic poetry and reviews books of poetry published within the past year.
Hotel Amerika
Launched in 2002 by Ohio University's Creative Writing Program, Hotel Amerika is a biannual magazine that publishes literary work of all genres, including work that challenges traditional genre boundaries.
The Journal
Estalished in 1972, The Journal is the nationally distributed literary journal of the Ohio State University, which publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and reviews of new books of poetry by both emerging and established authors. The magazine administers The Journal Award in Poetry, selecting one full-length manuscript of poetry each year for publication by Ohio State University Press.
The Kenyon Review
In 2001, The Kenyon Review Board of Trustees voted to present an annual award that would honor careers of extraordinary literary achievement.
Miami University Press
Since 1992 Miami University Press, edited by poet and teacher James Reiss, has brought out two books of poems each year by poets who have already had at least one full-length collection of poetry published.
Mid-American Review
Founded in 1981, MAR is an official publication of the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program at Bowling Green State University.
Pavement Saw Press
Publishes Pavement Saw Magazine (bonus: they will "hand number the entire journal you purchase for a dime a page, including the contents page, if requested to do so") and Bloody Twin Press, plus a limited number of poetry broadsides.
The Poetry Center
The CSU Poetry Center is a nonprofit publisher housed in the English Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cleveland State University. Since 1971, the press has published over 120 collections of poetry. |
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Poetic History |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar House: Dayton, OH
Dunbar lived in the Italianate turn-of-the-century house with his mother until his death from tuberculosis in 1906. |
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The Graves of Poets
When he died on February 9, 1906, at the age of thirty-three, Paul Lawrence Dunbar was buried in Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum in Dayton, Ohio. |
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James Wright's hometown: Martins Ferry, OH
The poems of James Wright infuse his hometown of Martins Ferry, Ohio with so true an emotional core that the town has taken on an almost mythic quality. |
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Visitors from Ohio Enjoy ... |
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Most Popular Poems
1. Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...
2. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We...
3. I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America...
4. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers...
5. Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history...
6. Sick
by Shel Silverstein
"I cannot go to school today"...
7. One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master...
8. This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten / the plums...
9. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...
10. Theme for English B
by Langston Hughes
The instructor said...
11. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why...
12. somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond...
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Poems about Ohio |
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A Walk Along the Old Tracks
by Robert Kinsley
When I was young they had already been / abandoned for years...
Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry, Ohio
by James Wright
In the Shreve High football stadium... |
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Writing programs & colonies |
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Bowling Green State University
Offering a B.F.A. and an M.F.A., BGSU also hosts the College of Arts and Sciences' Visiting Writers Series, an important aspect of BGSU's campus culture.
Cleveland State University
Offers the Leonard Trawick Scholarship in Creative Writing and an MA in English with a concentration in creative writing. CSU is home to Whiskey Island, a student-run literary magazine; the annual Imagination writing conference; the Poetry Center, a nonprofit poetry publisher; and The Langston Hughes Young Writers Project.
Denison University
Offers a BA with a concentration in creative writing, and features the Beck Lecture Series and The Jonathan R. Reynolds Young Writers Workshop for high school students.
Kent State University
KSU's Wick Poetry Program features annual scholarships to KSU for graduating Ohio high school seniors and KSU undergraduates, chapbook competitions for Ohio poets with publication by the Kent State University Press, the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize for a first book of poems, a reading series, and outreach program to area schools.
Miami University
Offers a B.A. and an M.A. in creative writing, and houses the Miami University Press.
Ohio State University
The OSU English Department offers an M.A. program, an M.F.A. program in Creative Writing, and a Ph.D. program, giving graduate students a variety of opportunities to work closely with distinguished scholars in a number of different fields. The department also publishes a number of literary journals, including Poetics Today and The Journal and is home to Ohio State University Press, which administers The Journal Award in Poetry.
Ohio University
Ohio University offers a Ph.D. in Creative Writing, as well as an M.A. The Creative Writing Program has deliberately remained small in order to provide an alternative to larger M.F.A. programs around the country. M.A. candidates complete two years of study and write a thesis of creative work in their genre. The Creative Writing Program also publishes several literary journals, including Hotel Amerika, and hosts the annual Spring Literary Festival.
University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati offers both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Creative Writing. The University is home to The George Elliston Poetry Foundation, which brings a distinguished poet to campus each year to give public lectures and readings and to conduct poetry seminars and workshops. During the winter quarter, The Ropes Lecture Series hosts a number of prominent writers--both creative and scholarly--who present public lectures and participate in graduate seminars on both the M.A. and Ph.D. levels. |
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Readings series, conferences, & literary festivals |
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Imagination
An annual five-day writing conference hosted by Cleveland State University.
Spring Literary Festival
Since 1986, the Ohio University Program in Creative Writing has hosted this three-day festival. |
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