Haiku Graffiti

Led by the librarian and an art teacher from Hillside Junior High, the students at the Center browsed through Keats’s books and discussed inner city life, communities and families. They were interested in the variety of nationalities of Keats’s characters, and in the presence of graffiti in the Keats landscape. As Ezra celebrated cultural diversity, the students incorporated Japanese-style haiku into their cityscapes. (Keats had actually illustrated a volume of haiku, titled In a Spring Garden.)