Speak Peace: American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children’s Paintings features original poems written by American children, veterans, and established poets in response to Vietnamese children’s paintings on peace and war collected over the last 10 years by the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. A collaborative international project between Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center and School of Art Galleries, and Soldiers’ Heart, a veterans’ return and healing organization, Speak Peace is on tour nationally from September 2010 to September 2013. For more information about this project, visit www.speakpeace.net. On display concurrently: a library exhibit entitled Writing War, Writing Peace, exhibit featuring related literature written by and for children, on loan from the World of Words library.

Reading on Saturday, September 17, 11:30 am. Details here.