Local poet, Michael V. Smith will be featured as an artist in the Poetry in Transit collection this year.
The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia partners with TransLink and B.C. Transit each year to produce a collection of poetry car cards featuring the work of B.C. authors and Canadian-published poets. The campaign brings a little bit of art into British Columbian害羞草研究所檚 commutes.
A poem of particular meaning to Smith was chosen to be featured, 害羞草研究所淧rayer for a Wig: in memory of Elise Partridge害羞草研究所� where he honours the late poet and author.
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His collection of poetry, 害羞草研究所楤ad Ideas害羞草研究所� will be featured on the transit cards as well. The book is a unique capsule of dream interpretations he had his friends and family record when they woke up. Smith then took their recordings and reworked them into poems that he says challenged him to work outside of his regular phrasing and with language he was unfamiliar with.
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The collection took its own form and was left untouched for more than ten years before being released to the world.
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