Tue 4/19 @ 7PM

April is National Poetry Month, so you’re going to see a lot of poetry flying around town, including in some unexpected places, such as North Water Brewing in Kent which hosts its Tap Talks on the third Tuesday of each month.

Its guest this month is David Hassler, who is director of Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center. His topic is the Global Vaccine Poem, a project the KSU Poetry Center started last March with the University of Arizona Poetry Center. The project spawned an anthology, Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic, published by the Kent State University Press, featuring work by poets from all over the world and an afterword by Governor Mike DeWine.

“Making use of poetry’s powerful tools to connect us across division, Dear Vaccine reminds us that medical advances alone are not enough to solve the vexing challenges of the pandemic; the arts — and poetry — have a profound and critical role to play,” says Hassler in a press release.

Hassler will talk about the project and read some of the pieces in the book. Come learn more about the project while enjoying some local microbrews.