Tuesday, July 05, 2011

News at Eleven: [Brenda Walkenhorst] gives credit to [Mark] Doty

for understanding what poems would resonate with zoo visitors and to the zoo's design and exhibiting staff for "putting the right poem in the right medium in the right place."

"I think they enjoyed this project because I wasn't telling them what to do," she said. "They had total artistic freedom, and they came through."

You'll find poems on banners, on the ceiling of a gazebo, and on logs in the Louisiana Swamp.

from The Times-Picayune: Nature poetry fits right in at the Audubon Zoo

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