Poetry in Motion is an arts program collaborative which displays poems by prominent authors in advertising space on the buses and subways.
[1] The first set of poems was "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by Walt Whitman, "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson, "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats, and "Let There Be New Flowering" by Lucille Clifton.
Originally designed for New York's MTA system, Poetry in Motion expanded to cities including: Poetry in Motion also appeared in Milwaukee, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, as well as Boise, Idaho; Denver, Colorado; Fresno, California; Hartford, Connecticut; Jacksonville, Florida; and Little Rock, Arkansas.
"[5] The Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating 25 Years on Subways and Buses by Alice Quinn with a foreword by Billy Collins was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2017.
The Poetry Society of America will relaunch the NYC branch in the summer of 2010, returning poems to the city bus system.