Poetry on the Streets

Created by Melanie Faranello (writer/teaching artist), Poetry on the Streets began by setting up a typewriter around the city—street corners, bus stops, parks— and engaging passersby to write a poem based on a word from a jar of emotions. 

From all different walks of life, people wrote about love, fear, loss, pain, hope, joy...

Strangers shared emotions, stories, and moments of human connection.

Poetry on the Streets expanded and evolved, engaging communities in creative self-expression, collaborating and developing projects to create impact, promote understanding and human connection by bringing people's words into public spaces.