Calling all Poets for "Poetry in Transit" Program
Let’s celebrate poetry
and get creative about Nanaimo!
The City of Nanaimo is
currently seeking poetry submissions through the "Poetry in Transit" program.
The theme is "Riding the Bus". Poets will contribute works that are in some way
related to a particular point on a route, a site in Nanaimo or the experience
shared while riding the bus. Poems will be selected on the basis of their
relation to the theme “riding the bus”, artistic merit and appropriateness for
display, either on the bus or online.
Inspired by Nanaimo's Poet
Laureate, this partnership between the City of Nanaimo, the Regional District of
Nanaimo and the Vancouver Island Regional Library is a way for the many riders
of Nanaimo's public transit to rethink and re-know their city.
The "Poetry in
Transit" Program is intended to ask the reader to explore the city through
poetry, to understand the spaces and experiences within it differently because
of the poems.
Poets who currently live within the Regional District of
Nanaimo and the City of Nanaimo can submit their poems to callingallpoets@nanaimo.ca. Poets
can submit up to three (3) poems for review.
Poems should be only 3-5
lines (50 words or less) not counting the title.
The theme for the 2016
program is "Riding the Bus".
"Poetry on buses, while not a
new concept, is certainly novel for the Nanaimo area transit. While advertising
has its function, poetry can allow the passengers a moment of quiet thought
during their busy day. A moment when they are diverted to consider possibly
wider issues than their day to day personal concerns. Often these pauses can
allow us to see things in a different perspective and while poetry on buses is
not supposed to be therapy, it can lift the spirits for a brief moment and that
is not to be undervalued." - Naomi Beth Wakan Nanaimo's Inaugural
Poet Laureate
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