GREENFIELD — Throughout April, the community is invited to take part in a mile-long poetry walk through the downtown area.
In honor of National Poetry Month, 10 different poems will be displayed in the storefronts of local businesses, according to Jeremiah Rood, assistant head of borrower services at the Greenfield Public Library. An 11th poem will be displayed at the library itself.
“These poems were selected because they fit the theme of community, hope or spring,” Rood explained. “Some of them will be familiar to people.”
The poetry walk, he continued, is one way the Greenfield Public Library is celebrating poetry this month.
“This year, we decided we would do another walk to get people out and about in the community and wandering downtown,” Rood said.
“We’re all hoping this spring will be a better spring than other springs in the pandemic,” he added.
A copy of the downtown poetry walk map can be found online at greenfieldpubliclibrary.org. A copy is also available at the library.
The library is also supplying kits for people to create their own “blackout poetry.”
Rood explained blackout poetry is created by taking a page from a book, magazine or newspaper, for example, and blacking out certain words, so that the only visible words left create a poem.
The kits will be available, and free to the public, at the main circulation desk while supplies last.
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