 Through these actions, City Lore played a major role in documenting the shrines and memorials that cropped up after 9/11. A selection of these anonymous poems was published in the book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.  and appeared in Steve Zeitlin's essay, "Oh Did You See the Ashes Come Thickly Falling Down. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In 2006, the People’s Poetry Gathering featured poetry from the world’s endangered languages. This inspired Bob Holman and Steve Zeitlinto begin work on a tribute to the world’s endangered languages, a world “cento” (stitched together) poem in which each line came from a different endangered language. In 2013, the Festival of American Folklife in Washington DC hosted Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues as an exhibit.The poem and subsequent film with Bob Holman would go on to serve as the subject of a tribute and call to action to preserve the worlds endangered languages, which premiered at the Margaret Meade Film Festival, and can be viewed online with extensive background information and a call for language preservation. The City Lore PoeMobile in action In 2010, City Lore and Bowery Arts + Science received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to launch the POEMobile that projects poems onto walls and building in tandem with live readings in New York City Neighborhoods. The POEMobile has traveled to Persian, Greek, Portuguese, Haitian, Dominican, Korean, as well as Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods, and also performed work with youth poets from Urban Word.In 2018, the POEMobile projected poems on to the steam rising up from New YorkCity manholes to express the evanescence of life.
<meaning-changed>  Through these actions, City Lore played a major role in documenting the shrines and memorials that cropped up after 9/11. A selection of these anonymous poems was published in the book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.  and appeared in Steve Zeitlin's essay, "Oh Did You See the Ashes Come Thickly Falling Down. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In 2006, the People’s Poetry Gathering featured poetry from the world’s endangered languages. This inspired Bob Holman and Steve Zeitlinto begin work on a tribute to the world’s endangered languages, a world “cento” (stitched together) poem in which each line came from a different endangered language. In 2013, the Festival of American Folklife in Washington DC hosted Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues as an exhibit.The poem and subsequent film with Bob Holman would go on to serve as the subject of a tribute and call to action to preserve the worlds endangered languages, which premiered at the Margaret Meade Film Festival, and can be viewed online with extensive background information and a call for language preservation. The City Lore PoeMobile in action In 2010, City Lore and Bowery Arts + Science received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to launch the POEMobile that projects poems onto walls and building in tandem with live readings in New York City Neighborhoods. The POEMobile has traveled to Persian, Greek, Portuguese, Haitian, Dominican, Korean, as well as Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods, and also performed work with youth poets from Urban Word.In 2018, the POEMobile projected poems on to the steam rising up from New YorkCity manholes to express the evanescence of life.
 Through these actions, City Lore played a major role in documenting the shrines and memorials that cropped up after 9/11. A selection of these anonymous poems was published in the book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam. and appeared in Steve Zeitlin's essay, "Oh Did You See the Ashes Come Thickly Falling Down. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% 