Sidewalk chalk talk

MSU Center for Poetry holds annual chalking event

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The Residential College of Arts andHumanities Center for Poetry at Michigan State University is kicking off theacademic year with poems — and chalk in hand.

The Center for Poetry will beholding their annual poetry chalking from 2-4 p.m. Sept. 8, on the river trailbehind Shaw Hall. The event is open to the public.

Chalkers will receive cider,donuts, and poems wrapped around sticks of sidewalk chalk. They can then writepoems along the river trail that follows the Red Cedar River often referred toas the “rape trail” by MSU students.

“We want to bring awareness to whywe speak about a part of campus that way,” said Stephanie Glazier, assistant tothe director of the center. The chalking is an opportunity to cover thepavement with poems that focus on strength of the community.

Another chalking is planned formonth of April, which will focus on National Poetry Month and Sexual AssaultAwareness Month. The Center for Poetry will also be holding a Fall ReadingSeries on Wednesday evenings, starting Oct. 20, that will feature poets such asCynthia Huntington, Marcia Aldridge, Gerald McCarthy and Rebecca Dunham.

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