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Penn Square: Bricks and Mortar

“Bricks and Mortar,” a poem by Barbara Buckman Strasko, can be found engraved in a river of granite at the corner of King and Queen Streets in downtown Lancaster. Lancaster dedicated the newly renovated Market Square, including the poem in granite, … Continue reading

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Join us for our Tenth Annual Kids Poetry Reading on Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Our 2018-2019 season of Poetry Paths in the Schools is coming to a close, and we are hosting our 10th annual Kids Poetry Reading featuring student poets from Buchanan, Carter & MacRae, and Ross Elementary Schools. Please join the poets … Continue reading

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Join us for our ninth annual Kids Poetry Reading on May 16, 2018

Each year Poetry Paths offers poetry workshops and enrichment activities for over one hundred schoolchildren from the School District of Lancaster. We invite you to celebrate this year’s young writers from Hand Middle School, Martin School, and King Elementary School! … Continue reading

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Poetry Paths in the Schools Kids Poetry Journal

  Snow in the City By Migma Sherpa, Fulton Elementary School, Grade 5 Every day I see many things in the city: buildings, parks and schools, cars and bikes. I see some Nepali food and fruit in the stores here, … Continue reading

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Fulton Elementary School site complete

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Stop by Fulton Elementary School, 225 West Orange Street, to visit the newest completed site of Poetry Paths! The site was completed in November 2013 and features five stainless steel spheres with Corian caps on which poems are printed. Congratulations to writers … Continue reading

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Poetry Paths artists and poets win awards

2013 Poet Mary Szybist wins the National Book Award in Poetry for her collection of poems, Incarnadine. Mary’s poem, “All Times and All Tenses Alive In this Moment” appears in the book. You can find this poem here, and at the … Continue reading

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Poetry Paths Installation at Fulton Elementary School

Visit the grounds of the newly renovated Fulton Elementary School, 225 West Orange Street to see the latest Poetry Paths artwork, by artists Sara Pevaroff Schuh and Erin Gleason. Below, Terry and Marianne of Irvin Services, the fabricators of the piece, … Continue reading

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Poetry Paths in the Schools is underway for the 2013-14 school year!

Students from Washington Elementary and Reynolds Middle School have been exploring  the outdoors as inspiration for poetry. Washington Elementary visited the Conestoga Greenway and Reynolds Middle School (pictured here) visited the Millport Conservancy. Ross and Fulton Elementary schools are also … Continue reading

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New Poetry Paths piece at Keystone Arts & Culture Center

Artists George Mummert and Dave Romanchock installed the latest addition to the Poetry Paths On the Streets initiative of public art and poetry in Lancaster City on Thursday, June 27.                       … Continue reading

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Please join us for our 4th Annual Kids Poetry Reading.

Our 2012-2013 season of Poetry Paths is coming to a close, and we write to invite you all to join us for our 4th annual Kids Poetry Reading.  Please join the poets and their teachers, principals, friends, neighbors and families as … Continue reading

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