In partnership with the RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University, Ruelaine Stokes will create a “Poetry Pathway” for residents of and visitors to Lansing, the state capital of Michigan, by installing a series of lectern signs—each featuring a single poem by a Lansing area poet and artwork by a Lansing area artist—along already-existing walking paths in the Tollgate Drain Wetlands. Poems for the project will be gathered in a public poetry contest titled “We Are Water.” The Poetry Pathway will celebrate the area’s vibrant artistic community, make poetry visible to the wider community, and increase awareness of the need to preserve Michigan’s freshwater resources.