Artist Jon Cotner thinks that poetry shouldn’t just be studied, but rather should be looked at as “a way of life, a mode of knowing.”
With this in mind, the artist created “Poem Forest,” a work created for the New York Botanical Garden that brings poetry back to nature–having visitors read lines from different poems while walking through the park.
eBookNewser has more: “Cotner’s installation takes classic lines from poetry and imposes them on a 20 minute walk through the park. He explained on the BMW Guggenheim blog: ‘Poetry can wake us, and in the process we create a shared world or ‘the commons.’ But what characterizes this common world? How can we describe it? With such questions in mind, I shaped Poem Forest.'”