Until recently, “The Beltline Chronicles” has been known as a series of public art installations along Atlanta’s busiest bike path. But now, fans can also discover them as a book of poetry and art.

Each of the four installations (planned as an eventual eight) consists of two glossy signs, installed side-by-side like the pages of an open book. Each features a canto of poetry written by Atlanta-based writer and Vanderbilt professor Robert F. Barsky, overlaid atop black-and-white ink paintings by Atlanta-based abstract artist Susan Ker-Seymer. A QR code allows admirers to access a multimedia component of the project online.

On Aug. 9, “The Beltline Chronicles” will find new life as it is reintroduced to the public at a book launch party as the now-published book of poetry and art, currentl

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