Where Words and Art Meet: Walking Poetry Project

Two Arlington artists have installed three "Walking Poems" along the Minuteman bikepath as part of this year's Pathways exhibition.

The Walking Poetry Project is a collaboration between Arlington residents Adria Arch, visual artist, and Jessie Brown, poet.

This installation is designed to encourage passersby to slow down and take in each poem by walking past — or even among — the placards. The physical act of walking and reading invites a different experience of poetry, one that engages not only the mind but the body. The reverse sides of the placards evoke the subject or mood of the poem.

The artists' use of the humble lawn sign is a sly poke at consumerism. For when did we ever see a lawn sign without an advertisement? And what could our world be like if all the signs featured poems, not advertisements?

See more on ArtsArlington.org.