{"689948":{"#nid":"689948","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Poetry@Tech Collaborates With MARTA to Put Poetry in Motion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019ve ridden a MARTA train this month, you\u2019ve probably seen the colorful artwork bearing verse from accomplished poets. It\u2019s Poetry@Tech\u2019s first off-campus foray into celebrating National Poetry Month in April.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPoetry@Tech collaborated with MARTA Artbound, the transit agency\u2019s office responsible for public art in the MARTA system, to place the poems in trains and on digital signboards in select stations throughout the month.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting because it\u2019s so colorful,\u201d said Victoria Chang, the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Chair and director of Poetry@Tech. \u201cAnd so, I feel like it gave me a lot of joy and I hope it gives the commuters and the riders on MARTA as much joy as it gave me when I saw it the first time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead more in our \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2026\/poetry-georgia-tech-marta\u0022\u003Efull story\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPoetry@Tech arranged to have poems, accompanied by artwork by local Atlanta artsts, on select MARTA trains and digital station signboards.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Poetry@Tech arranged to have poems, accompanied by artwork by local Atlanta artsts, on select MARTA trains and digital station signboards."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2026-04-22 15:37:09","changed_gmt":"2026-04-22 17:05:12","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680031":{"id":"680031","type":"image","title":"PXL_20260402_144725526.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EFrom left, Erin Carlyle, Victoria Chang, and Travis Denton, all of Poetry@Tech, ride a MARTA train from the Midtown station to check out their National Poetry Month Collaboration with MARTA, the Atlanta transit agency.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1776872253","gmt_created":"2026-04-22 15:37:33","changed":"1776872253","gmt_changed":"2026-04-22 15:37:33","alt":"Two people seated in a MARTA train seat underneath a sign with a poem and art in shades of blue, red, purple, green, and black.","file":{"fid":"264264","name":"PXL_20260402_144725526.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/22\/PXL_20260402_144725526.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/22\/PXL_20260402_144725526.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2484621,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/04\/22\/PXL_20260402_144725526.jpg?itok=1FuRn8fM"}},"680032":{"id":"680032","type":"image","title":"poetry-signs.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EThe art circulating on MARTA trains includes, from upper left and moving clockwise, Jenny George\u0027s \u0022Tin Bucket\u0022 illustrated by Chloe Alexander; Mary Ruefle\u0027s \u0022Happiness,\u0022 illustrated by Sanithna Phansavanh; \u0022So Much Happiness\u0022 by Naomi Shihab Nye, illustrated by Jamal Barber, and \u0022Ars Poetica by Aracelis Girmay, illustrated by Nick Benson.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1776872555","gmt_created":"2026-04-22 15:42:35","changed":"1776872555","gmt_changed":"2026-04-22 15:42:35","alt":"\u0022\u0022","file":{"fid":"264265","name":"poetry-signs.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/22\/poetry-signs.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/22\/poetry-signs.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1141651,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/04\/22\/poetry-signs.jpg?itok=4mblafeb"}}},"media_ids":["680031","680032"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMichael Pearson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}