Poetry in Motion

Poetry in Motion® places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the United States exposing this art to millions of viewers every day.  The brainchild of Elise Paschen, Director Emerita, and Molly Peacock, President Emerita of the Poetry Society of America, with Alan Kiepper, then President of MTA New York City Transit,  the program was launched in 1992. Today, after creating posters of hundreds of poems for public transportation riders, it is one of the most popular public literary programs in American history.  It currently appears in Los Angeles, Nashville, Providence, San Francisco, and New York City.

Poetry In Motion®: 100 Poems from the Buses and Subways was published by W. W. Norton (1996) and was selected as a Best Book for Young Adults by the Young Adult Library Services Association and the American Library Association. Soon after she followed family roots back to Canada, marrying her high school sweetheart Michael Groden, Molly Peacock began to immerse herself in Canadian Poetry.  Her brainchild, with then Tightrope Books publisher Halli Villegas, is The Best Canadian Poetry in English series, launched in 2008, and, since 2017 now published by Biblioasis Books.  Each volume, edited by a different poet each year, under the guidance of a Series Editor (for ten years, Peacock herself, and now Anita Lahey) takes the pulse of Canadian poetry by publishing fifty of the best poems yearly.  The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry is the culmination of the first ten years of the series.