Guardians of Grail

cheapbag214s · Posted: Thu 8:09, 29 Aug 2013 Post subject: Sidewalk stanzas

Sidewalk stanzas
The poems are scattered as far as Lake Como to the north and the Mississippi River to the west. But a single Frogtown street plays host to four, and we arrived around dusk, when the shadows were fattening.
"It's a universal thing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Young said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], peering down at a pile of russet autumn leaves. "You see wet concrete, and you want to do something to it. You want to write your initials. All we've done is sanction that desire." He pushed aside the leaves,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], revealing "Second Love," a six-line poem by St. Paul resident Carlee Tressel.
I pointed out that someone had colored in the first few letters of the poem in crayon, and Young smiled. "It will be there for a good number of decades," he said. "If you're a kid growing up around here,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], maybe you ride your bike by and notice it and say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Let's meet near the poem.' Or,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Let's use the poem for second base.' It gets folded into your life." He continued, "Or maybe there's a word, like tulle,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which you don't know when you're in third grade. And then in eighth grade,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you learn about the word,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and you understand the poem in a different way."
For two years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Young has served as the public artist in residence for St. Paul, a Midwestern city with a serious creative bent. Literature and art flourish here, supported by a network of independent bookstores, coffee shops,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and galleries.
One of Young's first goals, when he moved into his office in a dilapidated government building, was to bring that vibrancy to street level.
"The sidewalk in front of your house is public realm, it's city property, but you feel some sort of part ownership,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he said. "I knew I wanted to ask people to make a conceptual leap and to think about their streets as a canvas, or,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in this case, as a book. And then I thought, 'Well, if it's a book, who's going to get to write in it?' "
So in February,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Young convened a panel of judges and announced that the city would host a poetry contest,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], open to all residents, young and old, published and amateur. The only stipulation was that entries be kept short and that the material be previously unpublished.
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