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The final two poems of a special project have been embossed and installed next to a well-traveled walkway at St. John’s Episcopal Church....

Thank you to all: artists, writers, supporters, volunteers, the Soap Gallery, the Ohio Arts Council. Special appreciation to photographer...

Words Made Visible is Lit Youngstown’s literary-visual art collaboration. In blind judgings, poems and prose by Ohio-affiliated writers...

It was a great privilege to take our oral history project, Phenomenal Women: Twelve Youngstown Stories, to Arkansas in early November. At...

More congratulations! These Words Made Visible poems were selected by YSU digital “Crows” by Neil Carpathios “Mal du Siècle” by Riley...

So much congratulations to four poets whose poems were selected to be letterpressed into broadsides by The Cranky Pressman. “Working the...

Congratulations to the writers of these excerpted works, which will be stamped into Youngstown sidewalks: “The Field’s Red Wheat” by...

The McDonough Museum of Art, 525 Wick Ave., presents Salon de Fleurus, a representation of the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein, a...

In conjunction with the 35th Annual Women Artists Show, Lit Youngstown will present a reading featuring ekphrasis, or poems and stories...

And if that weren’t enough happiness, wait until you see the posters we’re giving away, designed by graphic artist Laura Garvin,...

As part of our oral history project Phenomenal Women: Twelve Youngstown Stories, we created a 10 minute video about the process. It...

Ohio-affiliated Writers: Call for Submissions Lit Youngstown seeks poetry and prose for a series of public art projects called Words Made...

At our reception for the release of Phenomenal Women: Twelve Youngstown Stories, photographer Melanie Rae Buonavolanta took such...

With profound thanks to the Raymond J. Wean Foundation and to these twelve women in our community, we invite you to a reception cel...

Lit Youngstown board of directors member Molly Toth (left) and friend of Lit Youngstown Sarah Lowry (photo credit: Phil Kidd) What a...

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. –...

Lit Youngstown is excited to be participating in this terrific event! The Lincoln Knolls Plaza will come alive with pop-up businesses, an...

As Phyllis Rench was walking by the Lit Youngstown booth at the Summer Festival of the Arts, she spotted Chris Leeper’s oil painting...

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...

Lit Youngstown is seeking flash fiction for Storygami! Five selected stories will be printed on square paper and folded into origami...