April 14, 2005
Here's a cool way of celebrating National Poetry Month. Something similar to this happens here in Oak Park (though it's not limited to April) -- someone goes around stencilling poems on the sidewalk with spray paint. I'll try to post a picture of the phenomenon later.
The above link comes by way of Shanna Compton, who's also celebrating National Poetry (Writing) Month in kind of an interesting way: she's writing a poem (almost) every day, but then expunging it shortly after it's posted, so that you have to visit at just the right time to catch it. Nothing yet today...
each one is up for just about 24 hours (if I can stand it that long!) :)
thanks for the linky.
I like today's....
I actually thought the poems on sidewalks were installations. You mean there's just someone doing that? If so that makes them all the more cooler.
They could be installations, I don't know. It seems to me they weren't poems or poets I'd every heard of though. If they're sanctioned by the village, I wonder how they picked the works?
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