Traveling
Stanzas
Chautauqua
Makerspace
A partnership between Chautauqua Literary Arts and the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas at Kent State University. The Chautauqua Poetry Makerspace and this microsite are made possible through philanthropic support, with special appreciation to Kate Dillon Hogan in memory of James A. Hogan.
Chautuqua 2025
Community Poem
About
Chautauquans, we’re writing a poem together. That’s right, each week, we want to hear your thoughts, read your words, feel your feels about the morning lectures, about what you’ve learned or liked, or been inspired by, about what’s been on your mind and what’s being talked about all across the grounds.
Each week, we will give you a prompt, then invite you to submit an original poem, or meaningful thought or phrase (10-30 lines max) — by Thursday at five o’clock of each week, responding to the week’s theme. Then, we will select lines or words or stanzas from some of your submissions and combine them into one single community poem. The final poem, representing the combined work of multiple contributors will be shared in the Saturday edition of The Chautauquan, and at a public event…
This is going to be powerful. Can you feel it?
You are submitting content pursuant to a callout by CHQ wherein we create unique poetry based on submissions. You understand that you are submitting content for the purpose of having CHQ use that content to create a new poem or poems ("Poem") with the material you submit. You must be over the age of 18 to submit material.
You will retain copyright in your Submission, but agree that CHQ may edit, modify, use, excerpt, publish, adapt or otherwise make derivative works from your Submission and use your Submission or derivative works, in whole or in part in any media or format and/or use the Submission or Poem for journalistic and/or promotional purposes generally, and may allow others to do so. You understand that the Poem created by CHQ will be a new creative work and may be distributed and the Poem and programs can be separately subject to copyright protection. Your Submission does not plagiarize or otherwise infringe any third-party copyright, moral rights or any other intellectual property rights or similar rights. You have not copied any part of your Submission from another source. If your Submission is selected for inclusion in the Poem, you will be acknowledged in a list of contributors or otherwise receive appropriate credit, but failure to do so shall not be deemed a breach of your rights.
Contribute a Stanza
to the Chautauqua 2025 Community Poem
Use the Wick Poetry Center's Thread application below to share your voice and view responses from the community.
Dreaming at Chautauqua
Share your voice by using a suite of digital expressive writing tools, such as Emerge (an erasure poetry app), Thread (community-generated poems), and the Listening Wall (thematically-driven touch-screen poetry displays). Choose a theme, follow a prompt, and print to share.
Create an Erasure Poem
with Emerge
Create a Poem
with the Listening Wall
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Traveling Stanzas
The Chautauqua Poetry Makerspace was created in partnership between Chautauqua Literary Arts and the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas at Kent State University. Traveling Stanzas community arts projects bring poetry to people’s everyday lives through innovative methods and digital platforms.
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About the Chautauqua Poetry Makerspace
The Chautauqua Poetry Makerspace was created in partnership between Chautauqua Literary Arts and the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas at Kent State University. The makerspace has been a unique staple of the Chautauqua Literary Arts program for the last three years. Throughout the summer season, any visitor can flex their creative muscles and make a poem using the online poetry makerspace.
The Chautauqua Poetry Makerspace and this microsite are made possible through philanthropic support, with special appreciation to Kate Dillon Hogan in memory of James A. Hogan.
