A big idea

Just tossing out ideas about this year's event - what we'd really like to see is a whole day of poetry.  In my mind, I picture the entire city scattered with poets leading or attending events in every corner of every neighborhood, children and old men and whole families taking part.  People who haven't read a poem since 7th grade when they decided only God could make a tree and they stopped reading poetry entirely.  People who like the Beats because they're cool but who never really heard their voices.  People who like music and think it's nothing like poetry.  And they'll all be surprised and wandering around the city to the next event.  And it will seem like the city is lousy with poets.  For at least a day.

The Beginning

It started on September 24, 2011. Toledo poets and writers and one songstress shared their love of a midwestern city shot through glass. And they made themselves part of a movement of art in a city of rust and revival.

Here's a place for everyone involved in that, and the subsequent events to come, to share their love of a wonderful city and their works to share themselves and their community with the world.

Bring it. Spread it. Love it.