Spring For Poetry In Takoma Park 2008
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
My Daughter Going to a Dance
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
Like a Bugle
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
and Hesiod
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
|
|
||
Spring For Poetry In Takoma Park 2008 |
||
| Click on the poem name to see the poster. | ||
| Poet | Poem | Location |
|---|---|---|
| CARROLL AVENUE | ||
| Kaylin Haught | God Says Yes to Me | Bus stop, Carroll and Sherman Aves |
| John Berryman | Dream Song #14 | Takoma Junction (7328 Carroll) |
| Mary Ellen Solt | Forsythia | Takoma Junction, right of bus stop |
| Amy Clampitt | Vacant Lot with Pokeweed | Takoma Junction, left of Gazebo, at bus stop |
| David Ignatow | The Bagel | TPSS Co-Op, Takoma Junction |
| William C Williams | Danse Russe and The Act | In front of Roland's Barbershop |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | We Real Cool | Savory, left of front parking |
| Elizabeth Bishop | One Art | In front of 7123 Carroll Ave |
| Carolyn Forché | The Visitor | In front of 7111 Carroll Ave |
| Marjorie Agosin | Disappeared Woman | In front of 7134 Carroll Ave |
| Judith Harris | My Mother's Unveiling and My Daughter Going to a Dance |
In front of 7120 Carroll Ave (Purple House) |
| Ann Darr | Gather My Wings | Victory Towers bus stop |
| Theodore Roethke | The Waking | Carroll and Park Aves |
| Miguel Hernandez | Your Heart - It Is a Frozen Orange | In front of Fair Play, Old Town |
| Lisel Mueller | What the Dog Perhaps Hears | In front of Gazebo in Old Town |
| Emily Dickinson | There Came a Wind Like a Bugle |
In front of Middle-Eastern Market, Old Town |
| Muriel Rukeyser | Myth | Pedestrian crossing, in front of Bead shop, Old Town |
| Myra Sklarew | Poem of the Mother | In front of Post Office, Old Town |
| Merrill Leffler | Roscoe Magnus | Median center, Old Town, Clock |
| Reed Whittemore | The High School Band and Hesiod |
Near Willow Ave, in front of bank |
| MAPLE AVENUE | ||
| Virginia Adair | God to the Serpent | 7416 Maple Ave (Niko's House) |
| Luisa Villani | Watching the Mayan Women | Intersection with Grant Ave at bus stop |
| Melvin Dixon | After Prayers at Twilight | Across from Lincoln Ave at bus stop |
| Gary Snyder | For All | At Sligo Creek path (hospital side) |
| PARKS & PUBLIC PLACES | ||
| Alfonsia Stormi | Ancestral Burden/Peso Ancestral | City library, walkway from parking lot |
| Sterling Brown | Tin Roof Blues | Takoma Park Community Center entrance |
| Walt Whitman | from Song of Myself | Spring Park (Poplar Ave) |
| Lucille Clifton | Good Times | Forest Park (Elm Ave) |
| Edward Field | The Lost, Dancing | Jequie Park at Gazebo |
| Gregory Corso | The Mad Yak | Westmoreland Playground |
| SCHOOLS | ||
| Grace Paley | The Poet's Occasional Alternative | Columbia Union, entrance to Wilkerson Hall |
| Charles Simic | Stone | Piney Branch Elementary School, left of entrance |
| Herman Taube | I Am a Dandelion | Takoma Elementary, entrance walk |
| Antonio Machado | The Wind One Brilliant Day | Montgomery College |
| Langston Hughes | In Time of Silver Rain | Takoma Middle School |
|
|
||
| Last updated April 20, 2008. | ||