Poetry and Place

Aaron Angello first noticed the powerful relation between poetry and place around five years ago while working on his doctorate in English literature at the University of Colorado Boulder.

“We read Charles Olsen’s [sic] “Maximus,” poems which take place in Gloucester, and Lorraine Niedecker’s “Paeon to Place” — all these poems which are specifically tied to location,” Angello says of a class he took which examined the relationship between poetry and place.

That lead Angello to create the Denver Poetry Map, a map that enlivens Denver with poems inspired by specific locations around the city. / CHLOE VELTMAN, cpr.org