Join Books BC and Read Local BC in celebrating 30 years of Poetry in Transit, the beloved and enduring poetry campaign that has brought poetry to bus riders across BC since 1996. Every year since, this community engagement project has featured ten BC poets on TransLink and BC Transit buses. Join us to hear poets featured over the years reading poetry, and sharing how Poetry in Transit has enriched and inspired their creativity and artistry. Join us early at the preceding event to hear this year’s poets!

The Poetry in Transit project is a collaboration between Books BC, TransLink, and BC Transit. This project is made possible due to the support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, Creative BC, and the City of Vancouver.

Location: Poetry Tent, UBC Robson Square

Type: Readings + Discussion/Q&A

Presented by: Word Vancouver & Read Local BC

Sponsored by: Word Vancouver · Books BC · Read Local BC · TransLink · BC Transit

Host: Rob Taylor

About The Host

Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor is the author of five poetry collections, including Weather and The News, and the editor of the anthologies What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation and Best Canadian Poetry 2019. He teaches creative writing at the University of the Fraser Valley, where he also runs the Fraser Valley Writers Festival, and lives with his family in Port Moody, BC, on the unceded territories of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.