Laundry, Buddhist Prayer Flags, or Poetry?

Friday July 24th:

Toi Ora celebrated the strength of New Zealand poetry and the spirit of taking poetry to our streets on Montana Poetry Day when writers from Toi Ora pegged poetry on Putiki Street. Like laundry hung out to dry, we hung poetry outside on washing line that criss-crossed Toi Ora’s parking spaces at 6 Putiki Street.  Writers Madeleine Heron, Reade Robbins, Ezekiel Kennedy, tutor Nancy Eisenberg, and  Erwin Van Asbeck and Bernadette Brewer from Toi Ora, pegged and read poetry as foot and car traffic slowed down to take a look at pink, green, and blue pastel paper fluttering in the wind.   Passersby were welcome to take a poem, and after several days, most poems had disappeared from the washing line.  We imagine them neatly folded in a pocket, walking away into the neighbourhood. 

Passing artist Marguerite Williams found inspiration for her photographs (click here)

and her video (click below).