Permanent Poetry
Every writer hopes one day to be published, some way or another. Well, the City of St Paul is providing an unique opportunity to make that happen in the Annual Sidewalk Poetry Contest. How would you like to see your work immortalized in concrete? The city will give five poets the chance to have their poetry stamped into part of the 10 miles of sidewalk they’ll be replacing this year.
This could be your work!
Said project creator and city Artist in Residence, Marcus Young, “We must be the only place it the world that creates public art as we fix our sidewalks. Fixing sidewalks is necessary work, and publishing poetry in concrete is practical, enduring, and surprisingly captivating. Our city is not just a city, but can be the biggest anthology of poems ever made.” In the three years the contest has been running, 261 panels have been installed featuring 26 different poems by St Paul lyricists.
Entries must be 10 lines or less, with each line maxing out at 40 characters, including spaces, with a no more than 250 characters, including spaces. Entries can be submitted at www.stpaul.gov/poetry.
