The below press release came to us from Pittsburgh Poetry Houses, who are installing their first poetry house later this month — we love RandyLand and can’t wait to visit!
The Pittsburgh Poetry Houses project is excited to announce that the first of three houses will be installed at RandyLand the weekend before Thanksgiving, providing poems free for the taking.
Pittsburgh Poetry Houses aims to provide poetry that is accessible and enjoyable by people who don’t consider poetry to be “literature for the people.” We hope that people will come upon the houses by accident as well as be told about them by friends and acquaintances as the poems are read and shared by word of mouth and on social media. We want to demystify poetry and present work that does what poetry can do—that is, enliven and enrich the lives of those reading it.
The Poetry Houses will be restocked twice a month, with each round consisting of two poems from local writers (one by an adult and one by a student), and two poems from national or international writers (also one from an adult and one from a student).
Further information, as well as guidelines for submissions, is available at http://pittsburghpoetryhouses.com/.
PPH is made possible thanks to generous grants from Awesome Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
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Send us your poems! We're looking for: short, approachable, and all-ages-appropriate. More detailed guidelines at the link.
Posted by Pittsburgh Poetry Houses on Friday, September 18, 2015
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