A: Ben Bernthal uses his typewriter to create poetry while set up at Clement Street Farmers Market. Berthal started Strangers’ Poems Project five years ago, where he sits on a street or in a park and invites people to share words in exchange for a poem. He finds that by writing poems for strangers, he’s not just expressing their story, but also his own. He is living his dream, he said, by making art for a living and feeling the sun on his skin.

