Wildlife Conservation Society (International Wildlife Park (Bronx Zoo ))

The Wildlife Conservation Society, in partnership with Poet’s House, will build on an earlier IMLS-funded project that brought poetic expression to the Central Park Zoo by hiring a poet-in-residence who assisted with the development of zoo signage and contributed innovative language to visual resources to promote conservation. The planning project will extend this concept to five diverse communities across the country, tentatively identified as New Orleans, Louisiana; Salt Lake City, Utah; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Jacksonville, Florida. The planning project will engage libraries in each community with a local zoo and help them to develop partnerships that promote conservation and draw on local strengths and resources.