Lancaster Poetry Paths.

 While home this past holiday I learned about a community arts program in Lancaster: Poetry Paths is a public visual and literary art project founded and produced by the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House at Franklin & Marshall College with funding from the Lancaster County Community Foundation. The goal of Poetry Paths is to bring enduring and inspiring poetry and visual art into people’s everyday lives through both poetry programming in public schools and community centers AND a city-wide public art project.

Poetry Paths in the Schools and Community sponsors poetry writing workshops for three hundred children annually in Lancaster’s public elementary and middle schools. Poetry Paths in the Streets, the public art project, will introduce poetry’s words into the Lancaster streetscape by installing art that features poetry throughout the city. Completed pieces may include sculpture, pavement inserts, fencing, street furniture, murals, and interactive pieces. They will have the pieces installed in December 2011 and spring 2012. I hope to keep you all updated. Maybe this might be something someone in our class could do for their final????

-Naomi