Lewis Boxing Gym 434 W. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Primer by Rita Dove, featured art: The Library by Jacob Lawrence
Q-Enoteca 308 W. Commercial St.
Featured poem: We Alone by Alice Walker, featured art: The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Vecino Group 305 W. Commercial St.
Featured poem: How Poems are Made by Alice Walker, featured art: Can Fire in the Park by Beauford Delaney
Historic C-Street Association at Historic Firehouse #2 101 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Listen Children by Lucille Clifton, featured art: Underground Railroad by William H. Johnson
Chabom Teas and Spices 209 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Women by Alice Walker, featured art: Harriet Tubman by William H. Johnson
Big Momma's 217 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Legacies by Nikki Giovanni, featured art: Saying Prayers by Horace Pippin
Springfield Braiding Company 219 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: This Morning by Lucille Clifton, featured art: School's Out by Allan Rohan Crite
Blu Styles Barber Shop 223 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Growing Up by E. Ethelbert Miller, featured art: Gamin by Augusta Savage
Savoy Ballroom & Dance with Me Dance Studio 224 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Rhapsody by William Stanley Braithwaite, featured art: Celebration by Charles Searles
Cafe Cusco 234 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Fifth Grade Autobiography by Rita Dove, featured art: Reflection by Hughie Lee-Smith
Basilico Italian Cafe 306 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Human Family by Maya Angelou, featured art: Figurative Composition #7 by Emilio Cruz
Van Gogh's Eeterie 334 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Night by E. Ethelbert Miller, featured art: Interior by Horace Pippin
Askinosie Chocolate 514 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson, featured art: Landscape with Rainbow by Robert Scott Duncanson
GLO Center 518 E. Commercial St.
Featured poem: My People by Langston Hughes, featured art: Into Bondage by Aaron Douglas
Stroll down vibrant Historic C-Street during April and enjoy a family-centered One Read Poetry Walk inspired by this year's One Read title, The Vanishing Half, by acclaimed author Brit Bennett. In windows of businesses, you will find a selection of moving poems and compelling artwork created by a range of America's finest African American poets and artists taken from the picture book "Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art" curated by Linda Rochelle.