Utrecht Utrecht for Starters

On the warf of the Oude Gracht below nr. 36 you can read the poem called:
"Utrecht for starters".




It asks you, to learn to understand the city, by feeling it's history with your own hands.

Select a good evening,
walk along the channels and look
how the light in the houses disappears.
Put than your hand on a wall.
Here the eldest stone is right.

The poem is of the, in March 2009 appointed, first City Poet Ingmar Heytze. He also published a book, with the same title as the poem, in which he selected 125 poems about the city.
A city poet is appointed - by the local city government- for two years and receives € 5.000,- p/y.