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Poetry in Motion also appeared in
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will relaunch the NYC branch in the summer of 2010, returning poems to the city bus system. Today the program is active in Dallas, Denver, St. Louis, and Los
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is an arts program collaborative which displays poems by prominent authors in advertising space on the buses and subways. The program was launched by New York's
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in 2002 and includes 120 selections from buses and subways across the country. The book was noted praiseworthy "for its populist approach to poetry."
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in 1996 and was selected as a Best Book for Young Adults by the Young Adult
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Reasons to Love New York - 21. Because We Fight Over Poetry
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Poetry In Motion: 100 Poems from the Buses and
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