The Poetry Foundation's new digs

The Poetry Foundation is a not for profit organization dedicated to the promotion of poetry in contemporary culture. Its new home is comprised of a building in dialogue with a garden space that is created by erosion of an implied volume as determined by the property boundary of the L-shaped site, resulting in a relationship whereby the building pushes into the garden and vice-versa. ?Flyer from the Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior

The Fix

A building?s way harder than a poem
To make.
Once you start
You can?t just dump
The part that you got wrong.
Like words too soon in print,
Eyesores in glass and steel
Resist revision.?

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