Wick Chapbook poet Mary Weems, author of white, is among the winners of the 55th annual Cleveland Arts Prize in the Emerging Artist category.
Congratulations to Mary Weems, the Wick Poetry Center, and The Kent State University Press!
Read more about the Arts Prize here and here.
The Ohioana Library has announce the finalists for the 2015 Ohioana Book Awards. Established in 1942, the awards honor Ohio authors in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Juvenile Literature. The category, About Ohio/Ohioan, may also include books by non-Ohio authors.
This year’s finalists include winners of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, a former U.S. Children’s Poet […]
Author, filmmaker, engineer, and historian Jack Gieck passed away on June 4, 2015.
Mr. Gieck was an engineer and past-president of the Canal Society of Ohio and founder of Cinemark, Inc., a producer of technical and historical films including the award-winning video series Ohio’s Canal Era. He is the author of the popular A Photo Album of Ohio’s […]
Wearable Prints, 1760-1860, by Susan W. Greene, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2015 Millia Davenport Publication Award sponsored by the Costume Society of America.
This year the Davenport Award Committee had a particularly strong field of nine short-listed books representing many aspects of dress scholarship. In commending Wearable Prints, the jurors noted that it was a […]
KSU Press author Jay Knarr is featured in two recent stories on NPR and in The Christian Science Monitor.
As Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica likes to say, his personal story seems like the stuff of fiction. He was a leftist guerrilla who was imprisoned for more than a decade. He’s known for driving a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle, […]
Author Dr. Virginia O. Benson was honored March 13, 2015, with the prestigious Robert C. Gaede Lifetime Achievement Award in Historic Preservation.
Read the rest of the story here.
MADISON-Joan L. Severa, age 89, passed away on March 5, 2015, at Oakwood West in Madison, Wisconsin, with family and friends by her side.
She was born on August 7, 1925, in Spring Green, to Gertrude and Johnny Baker. Joan was a master gardener and after retirement she authored How to Create a Perennial Garden. She volunteered […]
Edward J. Blum has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2014. His study, “‘The First Secessionist Was Satan’: Secession and the Religious Politics of Evil in Civil War America,” Civil War History (September 2014), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns […]
Susan Greene’s masterful study of fabric history, Wearable Prints, 1760–1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics, has won a 2015 PROSE Award for a single volume in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Congratulations to the author and to Kent State University Press!
Click here to read a Vindicator article about a new literary group founded by Wick poet Karen Schubert to serve Mahoning Valley residents.
