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San Francisco Chronicle, Tony Bravo writes about Gene Kahane s efforts to bring socially-conscious poetry to the residents of Alameda in a pandemic. Bravo foregrounds: When Kahane first heard reports in March that the Bay Area would be sheltering in place because of the coronavirus pandemic, the former poet laureate of Alameda felt called into action. Picking up from there:
The following day, he found some cardboard and affixed it to the trees where he has been posting his poetry ever since.
Every day since March, poetry has been posted on the trees on Souza Court, almost all by Kahane except for a few days in August when he visited his son in Oregon and asked “guest poets” to fill in for him. He’s now posted more than 200 poems.
Tony Bravo December 14, 2020Updated: December 18, 2020, 12:03 pm
Former Alameda poet laureate Gene Kahane posts a poem on trees near his home in Alameda. Kahane has been posting his poems on the trees every day since the pandemic shelter-in-place restrictions began in March. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
It’s a sunny day on Bay Farm Island in Alameda, and pedestrians are out in full social-distance force on Souza Court. The street, which overlooks a lagoon, is popular with dog walkers and families and for exercising. A man there is walking alone when a group of trees near a picnic table captures his attention. He stops to inspect pieces of paper posted upon makeshift placards on the five trees, each containing a stanza of a poem.