D.C. is more known for its politics than its poetry, but the city has made some significant contributions to America’s poetic history. Last month the Poetry Foundation launched maps and podcasts to assist people in doing a self-guided tour of some of the notable literary spots in the city. Don’t want to wait till it warms up? Take a virtual tour on their web site.

Anne Halsey, the media director for the Poetry Foundation, said the Foundation worked with poets, editors and scholars “to identify poets most closely associated with the city or who had spent an influential period of time in their lives in the city.”

This means poets like Paul Laurence Dunbar, Georgia Douglas Johnson and Walt Whitman, who lived in D.C., make an appearance. Other poets spent time in D.C. as Poet Laureate.