Hopefully, you’re already doing the green thing and taking the Metro on a regular basis. Even if that’s not the case, it’s still worth ditching the car this Thursday and heading over to Union Station for a live rush-hour poetry reading sponsored by the Poetry Society of America (PSA) and L.A. County Metro.

The free event is a special tribute to the 10th anniversary of Poetry in Motion program and features poets Elena Karina Byrne, Suzanne Lummis and Marisela Norte. During the event, the MTA will be giving out special commemorative bookmarks inscribed with poems by Octavio Paz and Emily Dickinson. (Because if you won’t stop for poetry, poetry will stop for you).

Poetry in Motion was originally produced in 1992 by the Poetry Society and the MTA New York Transit as a way of making public transportation a more pleasurable and enlightening experience.

The program, which places poems in buses and subways, currently reaches over 10 million Americans on a daily basis. These works are a breath of fresh air and welcomed alternative to print ads and closed-circuit television when you’re stuck on the train or bus.

Poets take the mic Thursday April 10, at 4:00pm inside Union Station’s East Portal.

-Poetry in Motion samples of work
-MTA event press release

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