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Around the Block In the Neighborhood is a public poetry project that honors the distinct charms of Spokane’s various districts BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
A Chris Cook in his Browne’s Addition home. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
14 INLANDER JANUARY 14, 2021
t least once a week, Chris Cook uploads a photo to Facebook that features an unusual sight he encountered on one of his long walks through his Browne’s Addition neighborhood. Maybe it’s of a sleek vintage car parked near the curb, or of a witticism scrawled in chalk on the sidewalk, a striking piece of midcentury architecture or an admittedly phallic rock formation that the current poet laureate has playfully dubbed Bonehenge. Each of the photos is captioned “I love my neighborhood” and tagged with “#onlyinbrownes,” and there are now more than a hundred individual posts. Cook, Spokane’s current poet laureate, says the ideal subject of an “I love my neighborhood” photo is a landmark or found object that’s unusual and maybe even confounding — something that’s distinctly Browne’s Addition. ...continued on page 16
