As part of the Cleveland Humanities Festival, Literary Cleveland partnered with the CSU Poetry Center to create "Preparations for Travel," a crowdsourced video poem on the theme of identity. For this project, poet Kamden Hilliard, Anisfield-Wolf Fellow at the CSU Poetry Center, developed an original three-part poem using lines and phrases selected from writing submitted by more than 40 local poets. The final video version of the poem, read by local performers, will premiere on Saturday, March 27, 2021. By combining unique individual voices together into a larger collective work, "Preparations for Travel" reveals Northeast Ohio's vibrant diversity of cultures and identities.
The final video poem will premiere online on March 27 at 7:00 pm, bringing unique individual voices together in through poetry to reveal Northeast Ohio's complex diversity of identities.
A link to the video will be posted when available.
This event is co-sponsored by Literary Cleveland and CSU Poetry Center.