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Dallas Public Art to place commissioned poems on sidewalks; youth poet laureate reads at kickoff
Summary
The city’s public-art program will commission poems for Dallas sidewalks using a new '2 1 form' by the Dallas Poet Laureate; the Youth Poet Laureate read an original poem at the Arts Month kickoff.
Dallas’ Public Art program announced a project to commission poems for public sidewalks and said the work will begin in neighborhoods without existing public art.
Krista Farber Weinstein, chair of the Public Art Committee, said the program will ‘embrace poetry in public spaces’ by commissioning poems created in a new structure called the "2 1 form," developed by Dallas Poet Laureate Dr. Meg Gabbard.…
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