Founded by acclaimed Jamaican American poet June Jordan at UC Berkeley in 1991 and borrowed by CCSF interdisciplinary studies professor Lauren Muller, the course — now helmed by Tanea Lunsford Lynx — teaches empowerment through the arts and advocates for Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a beloved community for all — one where the gap between universities and communities is bridged.One of the requirements for CCSF’s version of the class is an end-of-the-semester “field project,” where you’re asked to bring poetry into your community.“I was inspired by the little free libraries you see in SF, where you ‘take a book, leave a book,’ and thought, ‘Maybe I could do this with poetry.’”She got the nightstand from a co-worker’s garage (“When he heard about the project, he was like, ‘I have the perfect thing’”), asked her immediate circle of friends for all of their favorite poems to fill the “take a poem” pile, then stuck them in the nightstand, tossed it in the back of a friend’s truck and drove it straight over to Golden Gate Park’s permanently car-free JFK Promenade.In just the nightstand’s first 10 days in existence, Barrows has already moved it to Alamo Square — where it took a beating before she could get it to safety, losing its legs in the rainstorm that hammered the city — and Upper Noe Recreation Center.Her goal is to move it around San Francisco’s gloriously robust park system, moving it every four days or so — well past her field project’s due date."