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Poetry by young Hartford area writers is currently reaching a wider readership - on a CTtransit Bus.
The “Poetry Bus” will inspire riders for the next few weeks with excerpts of poems written by students who participate in creative writing classes at the Charter Oak Cultural Center’s Youth Arts Institute. The poems form a graphic display on the outside of the bus.
Charter Oak teaching artist Melanie Faranello came up with the idea for this “moving” piece of public art.
“For the poems that we used on the bus, the prompt was from a tribute poem about Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden” said Faranello. “So we studied Frederick Douglass, and the poem by Hayden and they wrote in response to that poem.”