My friend Letty works in Del Ray. The other day she was taking a walk around the ‘hood when she stumbled on this “poetry fence“:
The note at the top reads,
“If I can keep squirrels from raiding paper and push-pins from here for their nests, you’ll see poems here (editor’s note: Ah yes, squirrels – those enemies of poetry…). If you like, checkmark the ones you like. Maybe I can put up more from the same poet or similar poems. In any case, it lets me know my efforts aren’t for naught.
“And thank you very much to those persons who have expressed appreciation either in person, in notes on this site, or by checkmarking. I’m open to feedback. Do have favorite poems you’d like put up here?”
I love this. It reminds me of The Bathroom Poet, a project I discovered — well, in the bathroom, at The Still Point in Takoma Park.
Hooray for poetry where you least expect it…
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Neat! It would be fun to have some markers next to a fence/wall and let people write their own poetry too. I heard about a guy in another part of the country who put poems in a mailbox for people to take. Thanks for sharing.
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