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It would have pleased Walt Whitman to imagine his words coursing by electrified rail through a diverse city of 8 million souls. When Poetry in Motion launched in 1992, the first four poems to be displayed in advertising space on New York City subway cars included an excerpt from Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," Lucille Clifton's "Let there be new flowering," Emily Dickinson's " 'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers," and William Butler Yeats's "When You Are Old."
These four works set the tone for more than 200 poems, and counting, published on public transit through the Poetry in Motion program. This exhibit highlights a selection of those poems arranged in a loose chronological order, and represents the wide variety of graphic styles employed by various designers and managers who oversaw the program during its 25-year history. |