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"Poem Forest" is the latest in a series of city walks designed by Mr. Cotner.

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The resulting interactions, said Mr. Cotner, replace urban anonymity with affection.

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But man does not live by food alone, so drink and spirits are an important component of any food event... and Bill Knight of the Wine House at 2311 Cotner in West L.A. shepherded the huge wine selection, with more than ninety vineyards participating in a tasting/sipping display which would satisfy the wine-quenching quest of any oenophile.

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In designing the walk, Mr. Cotner, 35, said he sought a way to bring poetry off the page and into the world, in the kind of place where these poets wandered, and from which these poems came.

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The Poetry Society, in turn, commissioned Jon Cotner, the author, with Andy Fitch, of "Ten Walks/Two Talks" and the creator of various urban walking initiatives, to design an experience for Garden visitors.

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Claire Hamilton Wing Lui, Conrad Tinney and Leroy Holley stroll through the New York Botanical Garden on the 'Poem Forest' walk, which Jon Cotner, below, created to reintroduce visitors to a rare local pocket of 17th-century woodland.

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But man does not live by food alone, so drink and spirits are an important component of any food event... and Bill Knight of the Wine House at 2311 Cotner in West L.A. shepherded the huge wine selection, with more than ninety vineyards participating in a tasting/sipping display which would satisfy the wine-quenching quest of any oenophile.

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Mr. Cotner has placed the 15 markers at points that correspond with the assigned verses, such as T'ao Ch'ien's "Turning seasons turning wildly/away," which is recited in front of a vibrant canvas of rustling fall foliage.

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Although their contexts are different, Mr. Cotner sees a shared function between "Spontaneous Society" walks and "Poem Forest."

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