This year as the weather warms, walkers throughout St. Paul will notice something unusual at their feet. As they race to the bus stop or ramble along with their dogs, Capital City residents may find ...

Since 2008, St. Paul residents can find verse stamped into the sidewalks beneath their feet. The result of a long-standing collaboration between nonprofit Public Art St. Paul and the city’s Department ...

Newton pedestrians can now read award-winning poetry as they walk some of the city’s sidewalks. The public art project Make Poetry Concrete is engraving 10 poems on Newton’s sidewalks to introduce the ...

I chose this line from Carl Sandburg’s poem as the title for a University of Arizona OLLI course I teach because it shows how a poem can come softly padding into your life and take you by surprise, ...

As a commuter tried to make out the words of Richard C. Shaner’s “Gilman Pond Mountain,” someone walked right over it. Partially funded through a $45,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration ...

Even during the Great Depression, people were willing to pay $5 a person to be part of the packed audience that listened to Vachel Lindsay in Washington, D.C. It was the poet’s final performance, said ...