Friends of the Takoma Park Maryland Library

Takoma Park's Poetry Walk
Spring for Poetry
Since 2007, Takoma Park has been abloom with poetry from Spring into Fall along the sidewalks of Carroll Avenue from Takoma Junction to Old Town, city parks, and the community center and library. Colorful posters showcasing the poems are designed by graphic arts students at Montgomery College, under the direction of Andrea Adams.

Stroll the poetry walk, which is a project of the Friends, and you will read poems by familiar poets: among them Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, D.H. Lawrence and Derek Walcott; you will also read striking poems by poets who will be new to you: in all, about 30 works that reflect the diversity of world poetry.

In addition to the students at Montgomery College, those who have made Spring for Poetry a reality are the poets and writers who select poems, including Takoma Park Poet Laureate Anne Becker, poet/novelist Ian March, poet Rosanne Singer, and Ann Slayton and Merrill Leffler, who first conceived of the idea; Michele Morgan, whose original poster designs led to the collaboration with the college; and Clair Garman, who made all of the frames. Thanks to the Takoma Park Public Works Department who plant the poles and had the help of Sherman Avenue residents.