Painter Anne Schreivogl has recently planted the first poetry post in Anacortes. (Read my story about Anne and Al Currier's garden here). Words belong in gardens, especially poetic, evocative ones, and Anne is makign it happen, right out there in her front yard, where pedestrians and school kids pass by... who knows how many kids Anne is launching on a lifelong love of reading, and maybe even, hopefully, gardening...
Creating Anacortes's first poetry post has been a bit of an odyssey. Anne says "I really wanted to try to make it without a wooden box or plastic barrier. Laminating paper did not work, as water still found its way in. The answer was an all-weather paper from a company who makes paper for trail and mapmakers or those who like to explore in the outdoors. Its inkjet printable and I can draw on it with permanent markers. When ready, I staple the paper with a staple gun to the board I have on the post. (the board is 12" x 9", the paper 11" x 8.5"). Mapmaker's paper! Who knew??
This works like a gem and is easily readable by passerbys. Here's a link to where she purchased it: http://www.trailexplorers.com/igage-allweather-paper-c-17.html.
Thanks Anne - may the poetry post contest between Anacortes and Langley begin...there's probably one in each town, yours and mine....so far, anyway....
I love the cheerful flowers painted on the post itself...and how the weatherproof paper makes it easy to change out poems and, for an artist like Anne, decorate posts to help draw people's eyes to the words....
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