Did you know Hilton Head Island is packed with poets? Award-winning, multi-published, open mic slamming’ all-around jamming’ actual poets. It’s a new way to see Hilton Head Island: through the eyes of the poets who live in the area. Confused, wondering What is it? as you stare at the huge sculpture Carocol in Shelter Cove Park? Scan the trail sign and Elizabeth Abrams gives you one interpretation with “O’Keefe’s Woody Orchid.” It’s the kind of collaboration that makes the arts an experience.
The project is a partnership between the Town of Hilton Head Island’s Office of Cultural Affairs and the Island Writers’ Network. Restaurants and art shops and theaters and historic spots are involved, and the poems just add to their stories.
Every season of the year, the poems at most stops will be switched out for others. The island is packed with poets, so they’ll swap out poems regularly so that you can meet all of them. Plus, that reading trail will keep changing. Click here to see the current map.
