Poetry in Motion (arts program)
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Poetry in Motion is an arts program developed in 1992 by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Poetry Society of America to make the use of New York City public transportation more enjoyable and enlightening. Based on the British Council program Poems on the Underground, poems by prominent authors are displayed in advertising space on the buses and[ subways. 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. Since then, poems by more than 100 different authors have bean featured.
The program, originally only in New York has now been expanded to many cities across the United States.
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