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Meanwhile, in Vancouver… #PoetryInTransit
September 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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We're delighted that Water Quality by Cynthia Woodman Kerkham was chosen for #PoetryInTransit, run by @booksbc.bsky.social!

Learn more about this excellent poetry collection: buff.ly/hOLQ0BZ
September 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Thank you @quillandquire.bsky.social for this article (and @anvilpress.bsky.social for sharing!) 💙 ICYMI: Books BC and @readlocalbc.bsky.social are celebrating 30 years of Poetry in Transit @wordvancouver.bsky.social this Saturday, September 19 #PoetryinTransit #Poetry #BCbooks #BCtransit
September 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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I quite like this one.
#PoetryInTransit #busrider
September 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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L👀K at this fantastic lineup! All on ONE bus!!🚃 📕 Where was this when I was in school?! @eleekg.bsky.social @wordvancouver.bsky.social #PoetryInTransit #WORDVancouver #PoetLaureate #ReadLocalBC
readlocalbc.bsky.social Read Local BC @readlocalbc.bsky.social · Sep 9
Don't miss the bus! Join us on Saturday September 20, 2-3:30 PM at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for readings from this year's poetry in Transit authors

✨ Hosted by Vancouver's Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner
✨ More info at poetryintransit.ca

#PoetryInTransit #WordVancouver #ReadLocalBC
September 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Haven't seen these in a while! #PoetryInTransit @shaunrobinson.bsky.social 🫶🏽
May 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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We're celebrating 30 years of Poetry in Transit! 💙 Join us next Saturday, September 19 @wordvancouver.bsky.social @readlocalbc.bsky.social #PoetryinTransit #poetry #bcbooks #bctransit
readlocalbc.bsky.social Read Local BC @readlocalbc.bsky.social · 17d
We're celebrating 30 years of Poetry in Transit!
This much-loved program began in 1996 and has featured hundreds of poems from BC poets over the years, making it one of the longest running transit poetry programs in Canada.

Join us @wordvancouver.bsky.social on Saturday, September 19 for...
September 10, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Don't miss the bus! Join us on Saturday September 20, 2-3:30 PM at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for readings from this year's poetry in Transit authors

✨ Hosted by Vancouver's Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner
✨ More info at poetryintransit.ca

#PoetryInTransit #WordVancouver #ReadLocalBC
September 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Join us THIS SATURDAY from 2-3:30 PM at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for readings from this year's Poets! Hosted by Vancouver's poet laureate @eleekg.bsky.social and followed by discussion and Q&A.

#ReadLocalBC #WordVancouver #PoetryInTransit
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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March 17, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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What happens when two poets speak?

Joseph Kidney, one of the current #PoetryInTransit authors, sits down with legendary interviewer and poet Rob Taylor to indulge us with an examination of Kidney's prose, influences, and literary references. Unveil here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2026/01/28/a...
An Utterance Overhears Itself and Doubles Back: An Interview with Joseph Kidney
The two poets talk about perceptions of time, playing with the units of language, and things beyond oneself.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Poetry in Transit submissions are open! Showcase your poetry on transit buses across the region. BC-authored, Canadian-published poets are invited to submit for a chance to be featured!

For submission info visit PoetryInTransit.ca

#BooksBC #PoetryinTransit #ReadLocalBC
March 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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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...
#PoetryInTransit #ReadLocalBC #BCPoet
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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: 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: 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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#BCPoetry
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 on the move! Don’t miss Tom Wayman reading from his latest collection, Out of the Ordinary, at Word Vancouver this Saturday, September 20th. Catch him and other amazing poets sharing their work on the poetry bus from 2:00–3:30 p.m. 📚🚌

#WordVancouver #TomWayman #PoetryinTransit
September 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Then at 4:00-5:00 pm, Rob Taylor hosts a special 30th-anniversary celebration, featuring poets Junie Désil, Natalie Lim, and Fiona Tinwei Lam. There will also be other fun poetry activities on site! Learn more at buff.ly/WYxCXM2 #poetryintransit #poetry #literaryevent #readlocalbc
September 18, 2026 at 4:01 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
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Haven't seen these in a while. 🥹 #PoetryinTransit @shaunrobinson.bsky.social
May 1, 2026 at 12:13 AM