Putting Poetry on Billboards Is a Turn for the Better
Re “A Turn for the Verse” by Connie Koenenn (Jan. 13):
O brave new world
that has such people in’t.
O thank you, brave Poets Anonymous, who placed billboards all around the city of Los Angeles. I haven’t seen any yet in the San Fernando Valley, but I’ll keep looking.
Social critic David Shenk thinks “a real antidote to all those commercial billboards is blank space. . . .” Not the blank space I have seen: badly scraped-off posters, an absolute eyesore. Owners of billboards should be required by law to place a pleasant color on their empty billboards--or a poem. It’ll make them feel good; it’ll make us feel good.
HENRY BRUNELL
Chatsworth
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