Free Poetry For is one of many projects coordinated by Baltimore-based Poetry in Community. Join PiC on Facebook.
Poetry in Community also sponsors a month-long celebration of poetry in April for National Poetry Month called the Cruellest Month Poetry and Performance Festival.
Poetry in Community will create a more expansive tradition in which the whole of the community is invited to be present and represented. Poetry in Community will foster poetic practices as a collaborative effort to foster creative literacy and personal growth.
Free Poetry For is an ongoing series of tiny chapbooks that are printed in a limited edition. When the chapbooks are printed, they are disseminated throughout public space (cafes, airports, buses and bus shelters, trains, waiting rooms, etc. etc. etc.) The purpose of the series is to heighten the awareness of poetry by putting it (poetry) in odd and unusual places and spaces, where poetry isn’t traditionally understood to belong.