Spring For Poetry In Takoma Park 2012
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Eagle
Countee Cullen
Yet Do I Marvel
Claude McKay
America
From The Wishing Bone Cycle
Cree Indian Song
Galway Kinnell
from Memories of My Father
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Spring For Poetry In Takoma Park 2012 |
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| Click on the poem name to see the poster. | ||
| Poet | Poem | Location |
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| CARROLL AVENUE | ||
| Abraham Lincoln | Gettysburg Address | 7328 Carroll, TP Historical Society |
| Witslawa Szymborska | In Praise of My Sister | 7306 Carroll, bus stop |
| Brendan Galvin Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Crows The Eagle |
Carroll/East West Highway, Bus stop at Gazebo |
| Jordan Jones | The Zen Baker | TPSS CO-OP |
| Stanley Kunitz | Hornworm | 7214 Carroll (Roland's Barbershop) |
| Giacomo Leopardi | The Calm after the Storm | 7113 Carroll |
| Derek Walcott | Sea Canes | 7125 Carroll |
| Adonis (tr. Samuel Hazo) | A Tree | 7120 Carroll (Purple house) |
| Grace Paley | Here | 7107 Carroll (bus stop) |
| Sherman Alexie | Evolution | Carroll and Park, corner |
| Alice Jones | The Foot | Front of Capital City Cheesecake |
| Aztec Poem | Face and Heart / In Ixtli in Yollotl | 7051 Carroll, Victory Tower bus stop |
| Edward Hirsch | Fast Break | 7048 Carroll, near Fair Day's Play |
| Jackie Kay | Egusi Soup | 7040 Carroll, front of Roscoe's Restaurant |
| Justine Cook | Love Limulus Polyphemus | Bandstand, Carroll |
| Rumi | Where Everything Is Music | Bandstand, Carroll |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | A Woman Going Blind | 7006 Carroll, front Middle Eastern Market |
| Czeslow Milosz | A Confession & Gift | 7009 Carroll, front of Shampoo |
| Frank O'Hara | Why I Am Not a Painter | 6937 Laurel, front of Video Americain |
| Claribel Alegria | Time of Love | 6929 Laurel, front of S & A Bead Shop |
| Yusef Komunyakaa | Facing It | Under Old Town Clock |
| Claude McKay Countee Cullen |
The Tropics in New York Yet Do I Marvel |
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| Gary Snyder | For All | 6909 Laurel, front of post office |
| PARKS & PUBLIC PLACES | ||
| Langston Hughes Claude McKay |
I, Too, Sing America America |
TP Community Center |
| William Carlos Williams | Danse Russe | TP Community Center |
| Sor Juanna Inès de las Cruz | Feast of the Assumption / Maitines de la Asunciòn | TP Library |
| Juana de Ibarbourou | The Waves / Las Olas | TP Library |
| Billy Collins | Introduction to Poetry | Westmoreland Park |
| Elise Paschen From The Wishing Bone Cycle |
Birth Day Cree Indian Song |
Jackson/Boyd Park |
| William Wordsworth | Daffodils | Spring Park (Poplar Avenue |
| W.S. Merwin | The Animals & Utterance | Forest Park (Elm and Prince Georges Avenues) |
| Philip Schultz Galway Kinnell |
Laughter from Memories of My Father |
Forest Park (Elm and Prince Georges Avenues) |
| Emily Dickinson | Snake | Heffner Park (Oswego Avenue) |
| Nikki Giovanni | Knoxville, Tennessee | Belle Ziegler Park (Albany and Takoma Avenues) |
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| Last updated April 8, 2012. | ||