Gothamist Announces Poetry in Motion Update Featuring Poems by Audre Lorde and Heather McHugh

At Gothamist, Ben Yakas reports that MTA Arts & Design, in collaboration with the Poetry Society of America, has selected two poems to add to the Poetry in Motion series: Audre Lorde's "Smelling the Wind" and Heather McHugh's "A Night in a World." More on the chosen poems:

“The poems by Audre Lorde and Heather McHugh remind us of the joy to be found in discovery and connection — with other people and with the natural world,” said Matt Brogan, Executive Director of Poetry Society of America. “They are poems about ‘traveling out,’ whether to the distant stars or the face ‘on my horizon,’ poems that celebrate how love and the imagination can traverse the ‘marvelous arithmetics of distance.'"

You can see the designs for the poems as they'll appear in the subway here—the Lorde one features a portrait of the poet taken from “Beacons” (see up above), a mosaic artwork by Rico Gaston permanently installed at the 167th Street station in the Bronx. The McHugh one is paired with “Edges of a South Brooklyn Sky” (2018), an artwork by Sally Gil which is permanently installed at the Avenue U station in Brooklyn.

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