In collaboration with the Public Poetics Project, twenty students, twenty lyric poems, two words–“the most emotional”–selected by each student from each poem. Students choose two leaves collected by me from a roadside, choose where and how to inscribe their words on each, then arrange them by chance in a line across a central pathway on the campus of Lebanon Valley College. Some leaves blow away quickly. This video captures the remaining leaves from this site-specific, ephemeral, dynamic, constraint-based, multi-authored, cadavre exquis lyric (as part of the Introduction to the Study of Literature, Spring 2018).
