Pictures from Words Made Visible Reception
Thank you to all: artists, writers, supporters, volunteers, the Soap Gallery, the Ohio Arts Council. Special appreciation to photographer...
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Jan 19, 20181 min read
Words Made Visible Gallery Opening
Words Made Visible is Lit Youngstown’s literary-visual art collaboration. In blind judgings, poems and prose by Ohio-affiliated writers...
Nov 13, 20171 min read
On the Road with Phenomenal Women
It was a great privilege to take our oral history project, Phenomenal Women: Twelve Youngstown Stories, to Arkansas in early November. At...
Nov 8, 20171 min read
Words Made Visible/Silence is Golden
More congratulations! These Words Made Visible poems were selected by YSU digital “Crows” by Neil Carpathios “Mal du Siècle” by Riley...
Oct 4, 20171 min read
Words Made Visible
So much congratulations to four poets whose poems were selected to be letterpressed into broadsides by The Cranky Pressman. “Working the...
Aug 29, 20171 min read
Words Made Visible Sidewalk Project
Congratulations to the writers of these excerpted works, which will be stamped into Youngstown sidewalks: “The Field’s Red Wheat” by...
Aug 29, 20171 min read
Lit Youngstown at Salon de Fleurus
The McDonough Museum of Art, 525 Wick Ave., presents Salon de Fleurus, a representation of the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein, a...
Jun 22, 20171 min read
Writers Circle & Ekphrastic Reading at YWCA
In conjunction with the 35th Annual Women Artists Show, Lit Youngstown will present a reading featuring ekphrasis, or poems and stories...
Jun 22, 20172 min read
Lit Youngstown at 2017 Summer Festival of the Arts July 8-9
And if that weren’t enough happiness, wait until you see the posters we’re giving away, designed by graphic artist Laura Garvin,...
Mar 12, 20171 min read
Youngstown Stories Project Video
As part of our oral history project Phenomenal Women: Twelve Youngstown Stories, we created a 10 minute video about the process. It...
Mar 4, 20171 min read
Friends, Writers, Countrymen! Send Us Your Words
Ohio-affiliated Writers: Call for Submissions Lit Youngstown seeks poetry and prose for a series of public art projects called Words Made...
Mar 2, 20171 min read
Photos: Phenomenal Women Book Event
At our reception for the release of Phenomenal Women: Twelve Youngstown Stories, photographer Melanie Rae Buonavolanta took such...
Nov 22, 20162 min read
Phenomenal Women Celebration
With profound thanks to the Raymond J. Wean Foundation and to these twelve women in our community, we invite you to a reception cel...
Oct 17, 20161 min read
Garden District Fall Fest
Lit Youngstown board of directors member Molly Toth (left) and friend of Lit Youngstown Sarah Lowry (photo credit: Phil Kidd) What a...
Aug 22, 20161 min read
Northside Corn Roast
30 Mile Meal will host a Northside Corn Roast at the Lake to River Food Hub on Baldwin Street at Elm on September 17 from 10:00 a.m. –...
Aug 12, 20161 min read
The East Side Better Block
Lit Youngstown is excited to be participating in this terrific event! The Lincoln Knolls Plaza will come alive with pop-up businesses, an...
Jul 14, 20161 min read
Chris Leeper’s Painting Gets a New Home
As Phyllis Rench was walking by the Lit Youngstown booth at the Summer Festival of the Arts, she spotted Chris Leeper’s oil painting...
Jun 28, 20161 min read
Ode to our Zip Codes
Thank you to O Miami! for this terrific poetry idea. Visitors to our table at the Idora Farmers’ Market wrote five-line poems. Each zip...
Mar 11, 20161 min read
Storygami!
Lit Youngstown is seeking flash fiction for Storygami! Five selected stories will be printed on square paper and folded into origami...
Feb 11, 20161 min read
Auditions Announced for the Strand Project!
Tuesday March 1, 7:00 p.m. at Selah Restaurant The Strand Project is looking for 19 actors, men and women ages 17 and older to each...
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