News at Eleven : In the front is an opening,

for the deposit of poems.

The Poetry Bench was built three years ago by about 20 women, all of them novices in construction. Average age: 50. They used straw bales, sandbags and an adobe-like mixture called cob, which they mashed with their feet.

from The Union-Tribune: Poets say bench has value that goes far beyond words

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