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Veteran poets, new voices join for WCPA’s ‘A Walk in the Woo’ project Victor D. Infante Worcester Magazine USA TODAY NETWORK
One of the uniquities of poetry as an art form is that it must either, to paraphrase W.H. Auden, be appreciated or ignored. It can’t really be played as background music at a party, or hung on a wall as decoration. The reader must be either engaged with the art, or purposefully ignoring it. Perhaps it’s the ephemeral nature of poetry that makes the Worcester County Poetry Association’s “A Walk in the Woo” project so compelling. The project – a celebration of the WCPA’s 50th anniversary – brought poems to the streets of 13 districts in
Worcester. The poems were stenciled in chalk on the sidewalks, and only become visible in the rain. The poems are expected to remain for two or three months. The poems were picked by a judging panel that included Worcester poet laureate Juan Matos, and was helmed by poet Katherine Gregoire. “We drafted this call for poems with an intention to appeal to Worcester’s broad diversity of voices,” said Gregoire, and Worcester returned in kind. Not only did established Worcester poets like Eve Rifkah and Stephen Siddle respond, but as-yet unpublished poets like artists D See POETS, Page 12
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