Since 1990 the Wick Poetry Annual Reading Series has brought regionally, nationally, and internationally renowned poets to Kent State University for a reading of their work and to talk to students during their classes.

Featured readers have included Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winners Gwendolyn Brooks, Marilyn Hacker, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, Philip Levine, Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine, and C.K. Williams.

Each year the Wick Poetry Center also sponsors a reading by the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize winner and judge; a reading by the winners of the Ohio Chapbook Competition; a reading by the High School, Undergraduate, and Honors Scholarship competition winners titled "Celebrating our Own"; and a reading by area Elementary and High School students titled "Giving Voice."

Read interviews with upcoming authors.