EMERGE COMMUNITY
After "Conversations About Home"
BY Warsan Shire
A Very Weird Person
Caroline
Prose
After "The Chosen Ones: LeBron and Akron"
BY David Giffels
the last one
amelia
Prose
After "You Are Strong"
BY Alan Pelaez Lopez
Strong People
Katelyn Muir
Speech
After "Conversations About Home"
BY Warsan Shire
True Things
Ella
Prose
After "Home Away from Home"
BY Claudia D. Hernández
Believe Dreamers
Ann Shilling
Prose
After "Dreamers"
BY Hafizah Geter
Unnamed
Matthew C
Speech
After "The American Story"
BY Matthew Zapruder
Grandpa’s America
M.W. Upshaw
Prose
After "Conversations About Home"
BY Warsan Shire
Appreciate Now
M.W. Upshaw
Prose
After "The Making of Meaningful Voice"
BY Beverly Warren
Inspire
M.W. Upshaw
Speech
Catalog
- Counting the Stitches
- The Mark of My Father’s Hand
- Pharmacy
- Name It What You Will
- Salt
- Strip Mining Memory
- Dreams from Readers Write, The Sun
- Building/Fixing from Readers Write, The Sun
- Excerpt from The Secret Garden
- The First Morning
- Sports
- Views/Porches from the Sun
- A Few Months After My Husband from The Sun
- My Closet Is Overflowing from The Sun
- Twenty Years Ago from The Sun
- The Scar on My Upper Right Chest from The Sun
- Keepsakes from The Sun
- The Laughter Club
- Homer & Langley
- Lady’s Time
- Jayber Crow
- The Gospel of Wealth
- Proceedings of the Dedication of the Thayer Memorial Building
- The Function of a Public Library and Its Value to a Community
- Remarks to the Democratic National Convention
- Ain’t I A Woman?
- Growing Up American in Gaza Taught Me What We Owe to Refugees
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb?
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- Walden
- Teaching to Transgress
- Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Four Tendencies
- The Hate U Give
- Ensuring Student Health and Well-Being
- Personal Archive
- Crisis and Commitment
- The Everyday Astronaut
- Dreaming & Science
- Science Can’t Wait
- Science as a Verb
- In Pursuit of Remarkable Journeys
- Too Much and Too Little: Campus Demonstrations in the 1960s and Today
- History of Education in the News The Legacy of Slavery, Racism, and Contemporary Black Activism on Campus
- Israel’s Critics Will Not Be Silenced!
- KENT STATE THIRTY YEARS LATER
- The Politics of Firearm Safety: An Emerging New Balance of Power
- High School Protestors Are Good Citizens
- Excerpt from: 150 Forward
- Excerpts from: The Chautauqua Movemen
- Why Art Is Good for Entrepreneurs
- Edgar Villanueva
- The Numbers Don't Speak for Themselves
- Blind Boone's Pianola Blues
- Blind Boone's Blessings
- Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
- Hagar in the Wilderness
- The Chatpattey Room: Refugees Creating a Home—and a Business—in the Rust Belt.
- Until the Fulcrum Tips: A Conversation with Rita Dove and Jericho Brown
- There’s No Recipe for Growing Up
- The Chosen Ones: LeBron and Akron
- Akron, Ohio
- The American Story
- Home Away from Home
- You Are Strong
- Dreamers
- The History of Kent: Historical and Biographical
- Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry
- What’s the Deal with Black Squirrels
- The Making of Meaningful Voice
- What will you tell your daughters about 2016?
- 5 Questions Grant Makers Should Ask About the First 100 Days of Trump Era
- It’s Bias That Hobbles People of Color, Not Lack of a Leadership Pipeline
- Racial and Spatial Relations as Fundamental Determinants of Health in Detroit
- What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb?
- I Was a Working Single Mom Twice— Here’s What I Learned
- A Memo To Our Sector
- A Map of Utopia
- Conversations About Home
- My Grandmother’s Grave
- The New Colossus
- Shaam (Damascus)
- Belongings
- Jazz as Communication
- Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas
- Between Sinew and Spirit: Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body
- Hunger: A Memoir Of (My) Body
- Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- The Cuyahoga River: A Manual for the Environmental Study of a Real System
- President William Jefferson Clinton Designates America’s Heritage Rivers
- Cuyahoga - An American Heritage River from by Cuyahoga River Restoration
- In Better Health
- The Sculptor
- Crisis and Commitment
- Dreaming & Science
- Save the National Center for Environmental Research
- Put the Science Back in Science
- Science Can’t Wait, from “Science Not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement”
- I March Everyday, from “Science Not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement”
- Science as a Verb, from “Science Not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement”
- The Physics of Water Balloons, from “Science Not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement”
- The Everyday Astronaut, from “Science Not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement”
- In Pursuit of Remarkable Journeys, from “Science Not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement”
- More Than One Million People, from "Science Not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement"
- Your Library
- Unfinished Business of Race, from “A Race Anthology: dispatches and artifacts from a segregated city”
- Fathers
- President John F. Kennedy’s speech at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
- Lakewood Seeks to Reassure Immigrants: We Welcome All, Celebrate Our Diversity
- The History of Kent: Historical and biographical.
- What’s the Deal with Black Squirrels
- The Lesser Arts
- The Beauty of Life
- The Sculptor
- The Making of Meaningful Voice
- You Are Strong
- Home Away from Home
- Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry
- Akron, Ohio
- Conversations About Home
- Dreamers
- In Better Health
- The Sculptor
- The History of Kent: Historical and Biographical
- The Origins of Totalitarianism
- The Crucible
- Jane Eyre • Selection 1
- Jane Eyre • Selection 2
- Great Expectations
- Pride and Prejudice
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Speaking of Courage
- The Things They Carried
- Heart of Darkness
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Amal Unbound
- Making Friends With Billy Wong
- The Color of My Words
- Lizzie Bright
- House on Mango Street
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Romeo and Juliet
- Thank You, M'am
- All Summer in a Day
- The Westing Game
- Raymond's Run
- Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
- 95 Theses
- My Old Faithful
- The Land Between Two Rivers
- The Hour of Daydreams
- In the Distance
- The Evolution of Beauty
- American Hate: Survivors Speak Out
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Kent State Beyond the Shootings: Journey of the Wounded Healer
- Instructions for Meriwether Lewis
- Make the Slave’s Case Our Own
- Draft of First Inaugural Address
- Draft of a Bill for Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia
- Trial lines and draft notes for “Leaves of Grass”
- A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man
- A Summary View of the Rights of British America
- Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
- American Cookery
- The Ethan I Was Before
- Paper Route from As One
- The House on Mango Street
- I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
- A New Source of History
- Agnes Varda interview with Violet Lucca
- Ava DuVernay on Deadline
- On Humanity in Dark Times: Thoughts About Lessing
- Beyond Vietnam
- The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
- The Empty Space
- The Song Poet
- Cesar Chavez speaks to automobile workers’ union
- Shiloh and Other Stories
- Working
- Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century
- Brennan Dissent
- Resident Alien
- Atlas of the Body
- Call Me Zebra
- Airness
- Application for Naturalization
- The Apology Resolution
- Crisis and Commitment
- Dreaming & Science
- Save the National Center for Environmental Research
- Science Can’t Wait
- I March Everyday
- Science as a Verb
- The Physics of Water Balloons
- The Everyday Astronaut
- In Pursuit of Remarkable Journeys
- More Than One Million People
- Ad libitum
- Charlotte's Web
- Put the Science Back in Science
- A Study in Charlotte
- Little House on the Prairie
- Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- Cloud and Wallfish
- “Notes from a Trip to Russia” from Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Other Russias: An Interview with Victoria Lomasko
- The Omnibus of Crime
- A Short History of Myth
- Why Soccer Matters
- Our Declaration
- The Changeling: A Novel
- The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia
- The Signal Flame: A Novel
- Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Other Russias: An Interview with Victoria Lomasko
- The Changeling: A Novel
- Mission of the North American People, Geographical, Social, and Political
- The United States Declaration of Independence
- Taína Caragol: Putting a focus on Latino faces at the National Portrait Gallery
- Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Nobel Lecture In Literature
- The Guy with the Dreams
- Lisa Lucas’s Guide to the National Book Award
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- The Signal Flame: A Novel
- The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia
- Speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- I Am Prepared to Die
- United Nations Youth Assembly Speech
- Quit India
- This Was Their Finest Hour
- Untitled Speech
- Ain’t I a Woman?
- We Call BS
- The Chosen Ones: LeBron and Akron
- The Danger of a Single Story
- Until the Fulcrum Tips: A Conversation with Rita Dove and Jericho Brown
- Gender Is More Than Performance
- Between Sinew and Spirit: Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Hunger: A Memoir Of (My) Body
- Beyond Hollywood
- Growing Up American in Gaza Taught Me What We Owe to Refugees
- Little lady of Flores forces rethink of human evolution
- The Hard Way on Purpose
- We Should All Be Feminists
- The Chatpattey Room: Refugees Creating a Home—and a Business—in the Rust Belt
- Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied
- The Epidemic as Stigma: The Bioethics of Opioids
- Hunger: A Memoir Of (My) Body
- A Woman’s Beauty—A Put Down or Power Source
- Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Gender Is More Than Performance
- We Should All Be Feminists
- Akron Roundtable Remarks
- The Danger of a Single Story
- Diary of a Young Girl
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- Philanthropy’s Urgent Call to Action: Everything Is at Stake for Immigrants and Refugees
- Joint Foundation Statement on Immigration
- The Chatpattey Room: Refugees Creating a Home—and a Business—in the Rust Belt.
- Until the Fulcrum Tips: A Conversation with Rita Dove and Jericho Brown
- There’s No Recipe for Growing Up
- The Chosen Ones: LeBron and Akron
- Akron, Ohio
- The American Story
- Home Away from Home
- You Are Strong
- Dreamers
- The History of Kent: Historical and Biographical
- Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry
- What’s the Deal with Black Squirrels
- The Making of Meaningful Voice
- What will you tell your daughters about 2016?
- 5 Questions Grant Makers Should Ask About the First 100 Days of Trump Era
- It’s Bias That Hobbles People of Color, Not Lack of a Leadership Pipeline
- Racial and Spatial Relations as Fundamental Determinants of Health in Detroit
- What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb?
- I Was a Working Single Mom Twice— Here’s What I Learned
- A Memo To Our Sector
- A Map of Utopia
- Conversations About Home
- My Grandmother’s Grave
- The New Colossus
- Shaam (Damascus)
- Belongings
- Jazz as Communication
- Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas
- Maj Ragain
- Maj Ragain
- Maj Ragain
- Maj Ragain
- Maj Ragain
- Maj Ragain
- Sandra Demarest
- Barbara Cleveland
- J.B. Lippencott Co.
- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, McGraw Hill
- Jarrett Van Meter, Readers Write, The Sun
- Readers Write
- Susan Amsterdam
- Nancy Kramer
- Nicole Kenneally
- Robin Galen Kilrain
- Readers Write
- Peter Mountford
- E.L. Doctorow
- Alan V. Hewat
- Wendell Barr
- Andrew Carnegie
- Uxbridge Public Library
- Frederick Morgan Cruden
- Barack Obama
- Sojourner Truth
- Rebecca P. Zeccola
- Frederick Douglass
- Valerie Kaur
- CWRU
- Henry David Thoreau
- bell hooks
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Thomas Jefferson, et al
- Gretchen Rubin
- Angie Thomas
- Donna Orem
- Toni Morrison
- Dr. Omayra Ortega
- Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut
- Evelyn Valdez-Ward
- Dr. DJ Patil
- Dr. Marguerite Matthews
- Valorie Aquino, PhD
- J. Rochester
- C. Span and J. Anderson
- Edwin Janzen
- Mac Lojowsky
- Charles Phillips
- Jo Hart
- The strategic plan for Chautauqua Institution
- John Heyl Vincent
- Samuel Bacharach
- Decolonizing Wealth
- Rebecca C. Hetey and Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- Tyehimba Jess
- Tyehimba Jess
- Tyehimba Jess
- Tyehimba Jess
- Kailey Sherrick
- Jericho Brown
- Scaachi Koul
- David Giffels
- Ohio History Central
- Matthew Zapruder
- Claudia D. Hernández
- Alan Pelaez Lopez
- Hafizah Geter
- K.H. Grismer
- Jane Hirshfield
- Dapope
- Beverly Warren
- Chinaka Hodge
- Aaron Dorfman
- Frances Kunreuther
- Dr. David R. Williams
- Valerie Kaur
- Lateefah Simon
- Dr. Robert K. Ross
- Rebecca Solnit
- Warsan Shire
- Dunya Mikhali
- Emma Lazaurus
- Neveen Atik
- Hoda Ablan
- Langston Hughes
- Maya Angelou
- Maria Popova
- Roxane Gay
- Claudia Rankine
- CWRU
- Case Western Reserve
- President William Jefferson Clinton
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- Dan Bobkoff
- William Donohue Ellis
- Dr. Omayra Ortega, SACNAS
- Evelyn Valdez-Ward, SACNAS
- March for Science Team
- March for Science Team
- Dr. DJ Patil
- Sami
- Dr. Marguerite Matthews
- Dr. Dan Pomeroy
- Tim Dodd
- Valorie Aquino, PhD
- March for Science Team
- Lakewood Post
- Rev. Otis Moss II
- Herbert Gold
- John F. Kennedy
- Anonymous
- K.H. Grismer
- Dapope
- William Morris
- William Morris
- William Donohue Ellis
- Beverly Warren
- Alan Pelaez Lopez
- Claudia D. Hernández
- Jane Hirshfield
- Ohio History Central
- Warsan Shire
- Hafizah Geter
- Dan Bobkoff
- William Donohue Ellis
- K.H. Grismer
- Hannah Arendt
- Arthur Miller
- Charlotte Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Charles Dickens
- Jane Austen
- Frederick Douglass
- Tim O'Brien
- Tim O'Brien
- Joseph Conrad
- Harper Lee
- Aisha Saeed
- Augusta Scattergood
- Lynn Joseph
- Gary D. Schmidt
- Sandra Cisneros
- Anne Frank
- William Shakespeare
- Langston Hughes
- Ray Bradbury
- Ellen Raskin
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Abraham Lincoln
- Martin Luther
- Yang Huang
- Tom Sleigh
- Renee Macalino Rutledge
- Hernán Díaz
- Elena Georgiou
- Asmaa Albukaie
- Madeleine L’Engle
- Beverly Warren
- Thomas Jefferson
- Susan B. Anthony
- Thomas Jefferson
- Abraham Lincoln
- Walt Whitman
- Briton Hammon
- Thomas Jefferson
- Francis Warrington Dawson
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Amelia Simmons
- Ali Standish
- Kimberly Reed
- Sandra Cisneros
- Debbie Levy
- Boleslas Matuszewski
- Agnes Varda
- Ava DuVernay
- Hannah Arendt
- Martin Luther King
- Paisley Rekdal
- Peter Brook
- Kao Kalia Yang
- Cesar Chavez
- Bobbie Ann Mason
- Studs Terkel
- Jessica Bruder
- FCC vs. Pacifica Foundation
- Kazim Ali
- Nicole Cuffy
- Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
- Chelsea Marcantel
- Department of Homeland Security
- 103d Congress Joint Resolution 19
- Dr. Omayra Ortega
- March for Science Team
- March for Science Team
- Dr. DJ Patil
- Sami
- Dr. Marguerite Matthews
- Dr. Dan Pomeroy
- Tim Dodd
- Valorie Aquino
- March for Science Team
- Sissieretta Jones
- E. B. White
- March for Science team
- Brittany Cavallaro
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Melissa Sweet
- Masha Gessen
- Anne Nesbet
- Audre Lorde
- Amor Towles
- James McNally with Victoria Lomasko
- Dorothy Sayers
- Karen Armstrong
- Pelé and Brian Winters
- Danielle Allen
- Victor LaValle
- Frank Dumont from “Olio” by Tyehimba Jess
- Andrew Krivák
- Caroline Fraser
- James McNally
- Victor LaValle
- William Gilpin
- Thomas Jefferson et al.
- Maria Anderson
- Caroline Fraser
- Toni Morrison
- Emily Litvack
- Lindsay Schneider
- John Irving
- Andrew Krivák
- Frank Dumont from Olio by Tyehimba Jess
- William Faulkner
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Nelson Mandela
- Malala Yousafzai
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Winston Churchill
- Alexander the Great
- Sojourner Truth
- Emma Gonzalez
- David Giffels
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Jericho Brown
- Julia Serano
- Maria Popova
- Rebecca Skloot
- Roxane Gay
- Jane Fonda
- Rebecca P. Zeccola
- Rex Dalton
- David Giffels
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Kailey Sherrick
- Henry Gray
- Buchman, Leece, and Orkin
- Roxane Gay
- Susan Sontag
- Claudia Rankine
- Julia Serano
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Alberto Ibargüen
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Anne Frank
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Daranee Petsod
- GCIR
- Kailey Sherrick
- Jericho Brown
- Scaachi Koul
- David Giffels
- Ohio History Central
- Matthew Zapruder
- Claudia D. Hernández
- Alan Pelaez Lopez
- Hafizah Geter
- K.H. Grismer
- Jane Hirshfield
- Dapope
- Beverly Warren
- Chinaka Hodge
- Aaron Dorfman
- Frances Kunreuther
- Dr. David R. Williams
- Valerie Kaur
- Lateefah Simon
- Dr. Robert K. Ross
- Rebecca Solnit
- Warsan Shire
- Dunya Mikhali
- Emma Lazaurus
- Neveen Atik
- Hoda Ablan
- Langston Hughes
- Maya Angelou
- UH Portage
- One Community Reads
- NAIS AC 2020
- PfS Vanderbilt
- Voices of Disobedience
- Knight Arts Challenge Banquet
- 4th Regional Scholarly Publishing Forum
- Forum 2019
- Chautauqua 2019
- Healing Arts Drop-In
- River Stanzas
- AWP 2019
- Lakewood Public Library
- Taylor Hall
- Poetry Coalition Kent 2018
- Hathaway Brown
- Fall for the Book
- National Book Festival
- Poets for Science 2018
- Chautauqua Week 9
- Chautauqua Week 8
- Chautauqua Week 7
- Chautauqua Week 6
- Chautauqua Week 5
- Chautauqua Week 4
- Chautauqua Week 3
- Chautauqua Week 2
- Why Reading Matters 2018
- Chautauqua Week 1
- GEBG Conference 2018
- Akron Roundtable
- Women’s Center: Writing The Body
- AWP 2018
- FPN 2018
- Summit Artspace