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2023 Sidewalk Poetry Winners
The City of Appleton launched the Sidewalk Poetry Program in 2014. New poems are stamped each spring as a part of the Department of Public Work’s sidewalk replacement program. Visit the City of Appleton’s website for a complete map of all current poem locations.
Congratulations to the authors of the poems selected for the 2023 City of Appleton Sidewalk Poetry Contest! Keep reading to view this year’s selected poems.
Start by Margaret Sunghe Paek
s o m e t i m e s
you
just
need
to
start
dancing
Untitled by Zachary Handwerker
The way they see you,
Will leave you in tatters.
The way you see yourself,
Is all that really matters.
Untitled by Cosmyx Welker
when you dance in the rain,
my dear,
you’ve never looked more beautiful
Untitled by Abby Schwalenberg
but moments of joy
too many to mention
brighten each day
when we just
pay attention
Grandmother’s house by Danny Ceballos
I ran to the window
Climbed upon a box
Desperate to see
Where birds flew
Beyond the roofs
Beyond the blue