Guardians of Grail

cheapbag214s · Posted: Sat 18:14, 31 Aug 2013 Post subject: Sidewalk stanzas

Sidewalk stanzas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
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," 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Young smiled. "It will be there for a good number of decades," he said. "If you're a kid growing up around here, maybe you ride your bike by and notice it and say, 'Let's meet near the poem.' Or, 'Let's use the poem for second base.' It gets folded into your life." He continued, "Or maybe there's a word,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like tulle,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which you don't know when you're in third grade. And then in eighth grade, you learn about the word, 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, 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it's city property,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but you feel some sort of part ownership," he said. "I knew I wanted to ask people to make a conceptual leap and to think about their streets as a canvas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or, in this case, as a book. And then I thought, 'Well,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 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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