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| courtesy of the Safe Streets Fund |
As a fan of ancient Greek occasional poetry, I'm interested in modern resurgences of poetry in the public sphere. The New York City DOT is making use of poetry's playful and memorable qualities with their "Curbside Haiku" campaign. The signs are erected along city streets, with artwork based on traditional street signs and a poem dealing with a traffic safety issue. In the best classical tradition, the project aims to use beauty to "engage, edify and inform":
"Curbside Haiku seeks to merge public art with public awareness to infuse a bit of beauty and joy into the public sphere with the images while underscoring the realities of the message with poetry. I’m aiming to engage, edify and inform and nothing does that better than art."
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