Organized by the City of Evanston’s Public Arts Committee and the Evanston Public Library Board of Directors, this city wide poetry contest held in 2010, received 328 entries from residents. Ultimately, a jury of Evanston residents, which ranged from an Evanston Township High School student to professors of Theater and Poetry at Northwestern University, choose five poems to represent the literary talent within the community and be featured on the walkway into the library.
“Research” by Ethan Plaut
My poems
Are research
Into how
The perfect
Conversation
Would sound
Just in case
I should find
The person
With whom to
Have it
“Clark Street Beach” by Charlotte Hart
Lake Michigan smooth
sunrise barefoot wedding
kissing laughing
tux pants rolled up
gown held above sand.
We were the old couple walking by
holding hands.
Poem by Toby Sachs
[image of two foot prints]
You may step where I step
But you may not walk in my shoes
Unless you try
“Snowflakes” by Susan Gundlach
Flitting spots of white
Lighting on dead flower stalks:
Winter’s butterflies
“The Poetic Foot” by Alicia Berneche
Your feet scan these words
And feel the vibration of meaning
through their soles.
Poetry is motion
And the rhythm of bodies
That pound their stories
Into the earth.
