My bus route is a literary landmark

Joe Cothrel passed this along:

Ok, this is a fun thing: the Academy of American Poets recently created a map of 31 treasured literary landmarks in the the United States.

Number 19 on the list, as you can see, is "Robert Hayden's bus route, Ann Arbor, MI." They don't provide more info on the site, but the Ann Arbor News did a piece on August 6:

"With eyesight too poor for driving, Hayden often rode the bus from the corner of State and William Streets to Packard and Gardner Streets, then walked the short distance to his home ... AATA Route 5 played a humble but important supportive role in his later career."

So your bus route has been memorialized ...

Hayden was consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress in his day -- that's the role that's now called U.S. poet laureate. I like his stuff a lot. His best-known piece is here: Those Winter Sundays.

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-Joe

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Thanks Joe!

Comments

[Edward Vielmetti]

note to self: the link to the academy's map is not working, find a new one.