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Does walking with a dog enhance the experience of walking? If so, in what way? For poet Susan M. Schultz and walking artist and writer Ernesto Pujol, walking with dogs offers a means to meander, to shift perspective, and to marvel again and again at the oddity of the humans they encounter, sometimes affable, sometimes confrontational.
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Join Damaris West, our poet-in-residence and Ann de Forest, host of Walking America in an evening of sharing favourite poems about dogs and walking with them. Have you a favourite doggy poem that you would like to share? Whether commanded by a whistle or tied to a leash, carried in a bag or let loose
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Claudia Zeiske walked From Mountain to Sea, a 220km walk through Aberdeenshire, and a COVID-19 commemoration walk, marked by benches, music, an embroidered tablecloth, illustrated map, and film.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. Over two years, I walked from mountain to sea forth and back across Aberdeenshire in the
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More Lilith Walks
In a style as disarmingly casual as her daily saunters with her dog Lilith, Susan Schultz has assembled a delectable treasure chest of human encounters. Each walk is a poem, complete with volta-like turns, crafted with a photographer’s eye for the telling detail and a poet’s ear for the lyrical in everyday speech. Lilith Walks reminds us that even the
The Dog Walker of Philadelphia (2024) is a work of experimental literary fiction by social choreographer Ernesto Pujol, author of two core non-fiction texts on walking as socially engaged art practice. The story is set in 2019, just before the start of the Covid pandemic, when this mythical, provincial, American city was being aggressively gentrified, generating sidewalk social tensions. A critical, obsessive non-narrative that unfolds as a string of dog-centered vignettes, culminating in a transformative revelation about the lead walker.
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