JAYSHAWN LEE + CLIMATE IMAGINARIUM PRESENTS:

THE PEOPLE’S POETRY CART

The People’s Poetry Cart is a mobile literary installation that invites festival-goers to slow down, reflect, and co-create in a world that often demands speed and consumption. Rooted in typewriter poetry, climate consciousness, and creative reciprocity, the cart brings poetry into public spaces through participatory activations that spark joy, memory, and collective care. Led by poet and performance artist Jayshawn Lee, the cart transforms into a hub for on-the-spot poem-making, writing rituals, and seed-worthy connections. Whether guests are typing, gifting, planting, or simply witnessing—every interaction is an invitation to reimagine our relationship with language, land, and one another.

About the Artist: Jayshawn Lee is a Harlem-based poet, installation artist, and human rights advocate whose work merges creativity, public engagement, and social impact. They transform everyday spaces into poetic encounters through typewritten improvisation, participatory storytelling, and sustainable design. Their work has been featured on the Today Show and presented in collaboration with the Smithsonian Museums, Amnesty International, and Campari through their role at Ars Poetica. Jayshawn’s Climate Haikus installation—a zero-waste, interactive poetic archive—was nominated for the Human Impacts Institute’s Creative Climate Awards for its collaborative vision, inviting embroiderers, poets, and climate justice organizers to respond collectively to the climate crisis. As an educator, Jayshawn has taught Solarpunk Artistry poetry workshops with the NYC Climate Writers Collective and led typewriter and performance workshops through Poet’s House. They also served as Poet-in-Residence for Amnesty International USA’s Banned Book Café, creating custom poems on human rights and social impact. A graduate of NYU Gallatin and Columbia’s Human Rights MA program, Jayshawn continues to expand poetry beyond the page—building spaces for connection, reflection, and collective action.