Poem Chase sends sleuths scrambling

Two local arts organizations recently announced the Greater Pittsburgh Poem Chase, a contest… Two local arts organizations recently announced the Greater Pittsburgh Poem Chase, a contest designed to send Pittsburghers scurrying around their city in an effort to piece together the scattered lines of a Pittsburgh poet.

The lines have been placed on banners in prominent positions throughout the city. Each line leads the searcher to the next. The banners are all easily visible from the street and may be found on buildings, billboards, fences, decks or even hanging overhead.

The brainchild of Laurie Graham, writer and editor for Scribners, and Christina Springer, a performance poet and director of local arts organization Sun Crumbs, Poem Chase was born when the two were asked by the Andy Warhol Museum to come up with fresh ideas to reinvent Pittsburgh.