City Students Poetry On Display During Poem Walk

During April, National Poetry Month, the work of Baltimore City students will be on display along Greenmount Avenue.

The display is part of a project called "It Takes a Village" put on by Baltimore's Poetry in Community, according to a news release about the event.

Students in seventh and eighth grade participated in a three-part course learning how to write, edit their own work and that of their peers and how to prepare writing to be published, according to the release.

"As a stroller along the Poem Walk, you are reading the first draft of and anthology being written by a group of talented and passionate City students," the release states.

Check out a PDF flier for the event attached to this article.

The Poem Walk is part of a celebration of National Poetry Month called "The Cruellest Month Poetry and Performance Festival" put on by a group called Poetry in Community.

On April 6, the group will host a free poetry reading at the Waverly Library, near the intersection of Barclay, 33rd Street and University Parkway. The event will feature beatboxing, an open mic and a number of poetry-related activities.