You’re either on the bus, or you’re off the bus

December 7th, 2006

Buses haven’t been fun since the days of Ken Kesey and Further. But then along comes King County’s Poetry on Buses Program in Washington state to make everything groovy again.

I don’t know about you, but being crushed between two strangers during rush hour is infinitely more tolerable when I have a smorgasbord of clever haikus to stare at (as opposed to a stranger’s armpit, or ads for penile implants). Like-minded aficionados of Seattle’s bus poetry can now enjoy the program’s greatest hits in a new book, Poetry on Wheels: an Anthology of King County’s Poetry on Buses Program.

This weekend, publisher Floating Bridge Press, with support from 4Culture and Washington Center for the Book, will host a reading to celebrate this collection of bus poems. The deets:

When: 2 p.m., Sunday, December 10

Where: Seattle’s Central Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue, Microsoft Auditorium, Level 1

Who: Local poets Martha Silano, Dana Elkun, Paul Hunter, Joan Swift, Kelli Russell Agodon, and others will read selected poems.

Come one, come all: This event is free and open to the public. Yay.

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