As you may have heard, “Poetry in Motion” is returning to the MTA. Although the display of on-board verse has never been particularly handsome, the poems did act (as Curtis Fox mentions in his happy audio feature on the topic) as a healing space between advertisements and overheard bluster. For its willingness to choose poems of some substance, the Poetry Society of America is to be praised. Like Alice Quinn, one of my favorite poems from the MTA/PSA’s 2007 campaign belonged to Lorine Niedecker:

WILDERNESS

You are the man
You are my other country
and I find it hard going

You are the prickly pear
You are the sudden violent storm
the torrent to raise the river
to float the wounded doe