Metro Arts FY2019 Annual Report Final

LIFTING UP
LITERARY ART
Poetry In Motion® contest winners pose beside the WeGo Transit Poetry Bus featuring their winning poems along the exterior and interior. Photo credit:
Tré Hardin.
P O E T R Y I N M O T I O N
Poetry in Motion® is a partnership of Metro Arts, the Poetry Society of America,
WeGo Nashville Public Transit, The Porch Writers' Collective and Southern Word.
Since 2012, Poetry in Motion® has brought Nashvillians' poems to the public via
city transit, including a Poetry Bus wrapped in verses from contest-winning poets,
as well as poems printed on fare cards and on-bus placards.
Poetry in Motion® 2019 brought the addition of poetry on 10 Nashville transit
shelters, featuring local artist Michael "Ol'Skool" Mucker's interpretations of
contest winners' poems through vibrant vinyl illustrations.
Left: Michael Mucker's illustration of Ellen Niarhos' winning poem, To Technicolor, is applied to a WeGo Transit shelter in
downtown Nashville. Right: Southern Word student Alexis performs her original poetry at the Poetry in Motion kickoff
celebration at Nashville Public Library's Special Collections Center.
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