St. Paul, Minnesota, has a nifty public art program that involves stamping short poems written by city residents into sidewalks. How cool is that? Unfortunately, you have to be a St. Paul resident to submit your poems for the contest. Which I'm not. But what a fabulous idea! I love the idea of Poetry in Motion (poems on buses/subways, etc.), and I think sidewalk poems are pretty amazing, too. Anybody aware of other ways cities get poems out into public spaces where they'll be consumed by everyday people, not just people who would actually seek out poetry? | Photo: Jean Pieri, St. Paul Pioneer Press |
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