Various ASW Students
What once began as an underground street art movement in Monterrey, Nuevo León, has grown exponentially into the cultural phenomenon we see today, but what exactly is the Acción Poética movement?
Started in northern Mexico by the poet Armando Alanís Pulido, the movement was initially a way to break up the mundanity of the daily grind, instead provoking thought and engaging passers-by with predominantly romantic ‘micro-poems’. Yet alongside that end goal, the Acción Poética movement also sought to promote the act of reading – particularly of reading poetry. In a country where the literacy rate is widely thought to be more or less true, but also fundamentally theoretical (that’s to say, that while people can read, they don’t read), this movement was practically revolutionary.
A true Acción Poética slogan is as follows: roughly painted in black capital letters, over a plain whitewashed wall, the accompanying, anonymising Acción Poética tag sits in the bottom right corner. The phrase should also be no longer then eight words – or rather, it should stay true to the ‘micro-poem’ format.
SOURCE for the above information
Check out what ASW students had to contribute to the movement in the gallery below:
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