Poet's Walk is a playful, site-specific public arts exhibit created by a unique collaboration of artists and poets. Check out the designs and poems etched in the granite bollards stepping away from the corner like a row of tree stumps, a display entitled "Once There Was a Forest."

A few steps further, set against and seemingly inserted into the office tower, is "Corporate Head," 1991-1992. This particularly witty piece by artist Terry Allen and poet Philip Levine commemorates the businessman who lost his head in pursuit of the corporate dream. Though at first resentful, workers in the area have grown quite fond of the piece, and when entering the office tower, tend to pat it for good luck. The walk continues in the center court. But watch where you step - set in granite tiles is a map that leads to poetry - and watch where you sit - though the pigeons and the egg are not real, they can hurt. Even the escalator didn't escape the hand of the artist and the word of the poet, as evidenced by the copper message overhead.

Citicorp Plaza/Poets Walk
Seventh and Figueroa Street

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