Last month, the MTA announced the contemplatively triumphant return of Poetry In Motion to the subways. Unfortunately, buses were left out, forced to ruminate upon the aching chasm in their souls. But good news! Poetry In Motion IS expanding to yellow taxis...well, taxi TVs.
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Poetry In Motion Arrives In Taxis, Starting Today
Poetry In Motion Is Coming Back To Brighten Your Commute!
Score one for the arts—Poetry in Motion is coming back! Four years after the popular MTA program was discontinued and two years after its odd replacement, "Train of Thought," was nixed as well, the MTA today is announcing that the original is coming back! It won't be exactly the same as the old program, but we don't care. This is good news.
New MTA Ads Will Kill "Train of Thought," Too!
How many times have you been on the subway, shoved against some guy trying to impress his girlfriend by rambling about the complexities of Spain's public transportation system, wishing everyone would just evaporate when you look up and find yourself comforted by the words of Walt Whitman or E.B. White? Well, you'll just have to be satisfied with eavesdropping about Madrid's "sardine-ass" subways now, because the MTA says the subways aren't big enough for both the new ad campaign and the literary musings. Jane Tylus, the professor in charge of choosing the quotes, told the Times, “I am concerned this may well be the last round, if it goes up at all."
Poetry in Motion Makes Way for Train of Thought
The MTA's first selections are quotes from Galileo, explaining the role of math in science and E.B. White, from his wonderful book Here is New York.
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