The City Council has approved five poems written by Evanston residents to be stamped into the concrete at the new entrance of the main library, 1703 Orrington Ave.
The public submitted 328 poems in response to a call for poems. A review committee convened in May to select the final five entries. These poems, reprinted below, have received final approval by City Council. Funds for the Sidewalk Poetry Project, which cost about $10,000, were provided from the Washington National tax-increment financing (TIF) district.
Research
By Ethan Plaut
My poems
Are research
Into how
The perfect
Conversation
Would sound
Just in case
I should find
The person
With whom to
Have it.
Clark Street Beach
By Charlotte Hart
Lake Michigan smooth
Sunrise barefoot wedding
Kissing laughing
Tux pants rolled up
Gown held above sand.
We were the old couple walking by
Holding hands.
Poem 3
By Toby Sachs
(with image of two footprints)
You may step where I step
But you may not walk in my shoes
Unless you try.
Snowflakes
By Susan Gundlach
Flitting spots of white
Lighting on dead flower stalks:
Winter’s butterflies.
The Poetic Foot
By Alicia Berneche
Your feet scan these words
And you feel the vibration of meaning
Through their soles.
Poetry is motion
And the rhythm of bodies
That pound their stories
Into the earth.
