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The Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University was established in 1984 by Robert and Walter Wick in memory of their sons. Since its founding, the center continues to host readings and workshops, circulate publications, and create scholarship opportunities. Within the center is the Wick Poetry Park, featuring a fifty-seat amphitheater where readings are hosted in the summer.
Last Exit Books and Coffeehouse is a distinctive independent bookstore located in downtown Kent, Ohio. Their inventory encompasses a diverse range of items: secondhand books, DVDs, CDs, and an extensive collection of vinyl records. Situated at the front of the store is a charming coffee house serving locally roasted coffee and baked goods. The shop frequently hosts open mic nights for writers and musicians, as well as an ongoing poetry reading series.
Thank You Books is a women-owned independent bookstore in Birmingham, Alabama. Their inventory includes contemporary works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as selections for young readers, and their website includes a wish list for books donated to incarcerated individuals in Alabama and Texas. The bookshop also hosts literary events, including book club meetings, author events, and poetry readings, providing a vital platform for the voices and works of the city’s literary community.
Founded in 1862, the Starr Library is located in Rhinebeck, New York, and is a part of the Mid-Hudson Library system. Formerly located in a historic building in the center of town, it remained in this area for one hundred and thirteen years until it was moved to its current location in 1975.
The library hosts monthly readings, workshops, and author talks, often in collaboration with Morton Memorial Library and the local independent bookseller Oblong Books.
Portsmouth Book & Bar is a full service restaurant, bar, and live entertainment venue tucked inside a bookstore in the heart of downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The kitchen offers a full menu and the bar has a wide selection of signature cocktails, beer, wine, coffee, and tea. Live entertainment includes regional music acts, poetry readings, comedy, open mic nights, and a variety of community events.
Water Street Bookstore is the largest independent bookstore in the seacoast region of New Hampshire. Opened in 1991, the bookstore is located in the town of Exeter and carries new and used books in all genres. The shop hosts events throughout the year and has a used books consignments program, as well as a membership program that allows visitors twenty percent off select hardcover books, including all signed books, and access to their annual member sale in November.
Opened in 2017, Zenith Bookstore is a community bookstore in Duluth, Minnesota. The store has partnerships with schools, nonprofits, and local businesses, and offers discounts to educators, book clubs, and community partners. Author events are held in the bookstore throughout the year and new works by local authors are featured prominently. Known for a large and diverse collection of new and gently used books, the store also stocks bookish gifts—from buttons to socks and greeting cards to puzzles.
The Poetry Society of America, the nation’s oldest poetry organization, was founded in 1910. Its mission is to build a larger and more diverse audience for poetry, to encourage a deeper appreciation of the vitality and breadth of poetry in the cultural conversation, to support poets through an array of programs and awards, and to place poetry at the crossroads of American life.
leaves is an independent, second-hand bookstore. It is a community-oriented project committed to sustainability and affordability.
It carries all genres of books ranging in price from one dollar to many thousands. Their website is dedicated to rare, collectible, and out of print selections. For discount books and reading copies, visit their store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
P&T Knitwear is a family-owned independent bookstore, podcast studio, event space, and cafe in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The name dates back to the knitwear store the founder’s grandfather Hymie Tusk and his business partner Mike Pudlo started in 1952, after surviving the Holocaust and emigrating to New York City.
