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<![CDATA[Poetry@Tech Collaborates With MARTA to Put Poetry in Motion]]>
If you’ve ridden a MARTA train this month, you’ve probably seen the colorful artwork bearing verse from accomplished poets. It’s Poetry@Tech’s first off-campus foray into celebrating National Poetry Month in April.Poetry@Tech collaborated with MARTA Artbound, the transit agency’s 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.
“It’s really exciting because it’s so colorful,” said Victoria Chang, the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Chair and director of Poetry@Tech. “And 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.”
Read more in our full story.
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Poetry@Tech arranged to have poems, accompanied by artwork by local Atlanta artsts, on select MARTA trains and digital station signboards.]]>
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From 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.]]>
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The art circulating on MARTA trains includes, from upper left and moving clockwise, Jenny George's "Tin Bucket" illustrated by Chloe Alexander; Mary Ruefle's "Happiness," illustrated by Sanithna Phansavanh; "So Much Happiness" by Naomi Shihab Nye, illustrated by Jamal Barber, and "Ars Poetica by Aracelis Girmay, illustrated by Nick Benson.]]>
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Michael Pearson
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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