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June 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Calvin Wharton✨ @anvilpress.bsky.social

We spoke with Calvin Wharton and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Calvin Wharton has a light skin tone, and a light grey mustache and goatee. He’s wearing a tee shirt and sweater with glasses and a flat cap. “There was a distinct pleasure in imagining strangers unexpectedly discovering and reading my poem” Imagine you have lost connection to gravity, a condition that has developed so gradually you didn’t notice it was underway —Calvin Wharton, “Do This, Do That: Exercise 2”
January 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Jen Currin✨
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We spoke with Jen Currin and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read the full interviews here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Jen Currin has a light skin tone, blue eyes, and a blonde sweeping pixie cut. She wears a pink shirt and stares directly at the camera with a serious glare. There’s intense lighting with a black ground. “Encountering a poem on the bus is like encountering this little piece of otherworldiness—poetry is so different from the kinds of writing we’re used to seeing on transit walls” Lamp clicks on in a dark room.  The apartment throbs with light.  Tonight I must dream. —Jen Currin, “A Shadow’s Cat”
April 10, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Joseph Kidney✨ @gooselane.bsky.social

We spoke with Joseph Kidney and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Joseph Kidney has a light skin tone and wavy brown hair being swept by the wind. He’s wearing a cable knit sweater and looking to the side with the ocean in the background. “I’m very grateful to be a part of Poetry in Transit, in part because it means that I am stepping forward more directly into the modern conflict between art and advertising.” What could be stranger than looking from a cliff at animals flying beneath you? Perhaps the dead observe the living this way —Joseph Kidney, “Mori Point”
January 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Renée Harper✨

We spoke with Renée Harper and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read the full interviews here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Renée Harper has a light skin tone, hazel eyes, and shoulder length brown hair with a side part. She wears tortoise shell framed glasses, and a grey turtle neck sweater. She looks at the camera with a soft smile “There’s something inherently poetic about being in motion, suspended between places. Transit invites reflection, and for me, it sometimes invites poetry.” he read my fortune in the passing clouds ill omens mixed with gusts of wind but sunshine too —Renée Harper, “Fortunes”
June 19, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Lauren Peat☀️

We spoke with Lauren Peat and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Lauren Peat has a light skin tone, blue eyes, and a dark blonde pixie cut. She wears a brown turtle neck sweater and small hoop earrings. She is looking to the side while sunlight shining through leaves creates spots of sunlight and shadows across her face. “Words can make a minute stretch long, or collapse it into a pinprick. It’s a special kind of alchemy… I remember feeling as if the rest of the bus had melted away, and I almost missed my stop.” The 1:52 train sustains a D major chord. I rehearse having no purpose inside night’s cargo of shadow. —Lauren Peat, “Freight Train”
February 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Tom Wayman✨ @harbourpublishing.bsky.social

We spoke with Tom Wayman and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read the full interviews here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Tom Wayman has a light skin tone, white and grey wavy long hair, and a beard. He wears thin framed glasses and a blue shirt, and peers to the side. at a time when the audience for contemporary poetry is infinitesimal, the Poetry in Transit poems demonstrate to the travelling public that “poetry” is not one thing, any more than “music” is. Expensive sedans, beaters, delivery trucks and jammed buses alike splash through the pavement’s rivulets —Tom Wayman, “A City Most at Home in the Rain”
May 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM