Congratulations to Michelle Brown for being a featured poet in this year’s Poetry in Transit selection!
Now celebrating its 28th year, this community-engagement project, made possible through a partnership with TransLink and BC Transit, is an opportunity to showcase BC’s regional poets. Each year, we invite submissions of BC-authored poems from Canadian publishers and select 10 local poets to be featured in the campaign. A collection of bus cards featuring the poetry selections are produced and placed on transit vehicles across the province for riders to discover on their daily commutes. Each bus card now features the cover art of the book in which the selected poem was first published.
Michelle is one of a group of BC poets selected. They are:
Michelle Brown, Vancouver, BC — Swans (Palimpsest Press)
Dina Del Bucchia, Fruitvale, BC — You’re Gonna Love This (Talonbooks)
Justene Dion-Glowa, Kamloops, BC — Trailer Park Shakes (Brick Books)
Svetlana Ischenko, North Vancouver, BC — Nucleus: A Poet’s Lyrical Journey from Ukraine to Canada (Ronsdale Press)
Donna Kane, Rolla, BC — Asterisms (Harbour Publishing)
Christopher Levenson, Vancouver, BC — Moorings (Caitlin Press)
Bradley Peters, Chilliwack, BC — Sonnets from a Cell (Brick Books)
Michelle Poirier Brown, Vernon, BC — You Might Be Sorry You Read This (University of Alberta Press)
Andrea Scott, Victoria, BC — In the Warm Shallows of What Remains (Raven Chapbooks/Rainbow Publishers)
Tiffany Stone, Maple Ridge, BC — Super Small: Miniature Marvels of the Natural World (Greystone Books)
For more information about Poetry in Transit, click here!
To listen to Leslie Bootle, executive director of Books BC talk on The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn CBC Radio, click here!
To purchase Michelle Brown’s book Swans, click here!