Market Stanzas is a community arts project created by the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University in partnership with Haymaker Farmers’ Market in celebration of their 30th anniversary.

Community members can share memories about the market, its vendors and volunteers, and the important way it serves the Kent community to the online gallery here or by visiting the Traveling Stanzas Poetry Makerspace at the market. Each visitors’ contribution will add to a growing community poem.

Market Stanzas is funded by generous grants from the Kent Rotary Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council. 

Participate

community poem

Contribute to the
Community Poem

This website provides a creative space to pause and reflect on the Haymaker Farmer’s Market. Follow the prompts below to share your own voice to the community poem, then view the respones of others.

Postcards

Postcard sets can be purchased for $12/packet to support the Haymaker Farmer’s Market.

Haymaker Farmers’ Market was founded in 1992 by a determined group of community members who wanted access to local food in our beloved city of Kent. What started as a small handful of vendors under the Haymaker overpass during the summer months has grown to a vibrant, year-round, producer-only market with upwards of fifty vendors. Over the last 30 years, Haymaker has helped foster equitable access to healthy, local food and meaningful relationships between consumers and farmers, makers, and bakers.

Traveling Stanzas community arts projects bring poetry to people’s everyday lives through innovative methods and digital platforms.

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