Poets, family, and friends gathered recently to celebrate the finalists of this year’s Lawrence Transit Poet Laureate Program. The community will soon be able to find their poems on Lawrence Transit’s electric buses for the duration of 2025.

The 2025 Lawrence Transit Poets Laureate are:

• Alejandro Sabillón – Poet Laureate of Route 5
• Emily Rems – Poet Laureate of Route 4
• Jim McCrary – Poet Laureate of Route 1
• Miguel A. Castro – Poet Laureate of Route 10
• Wyatt Townley – Poet Laureate of Route 7
• ZOya Nebesniak – Poet Laureate of Route 12

To read their poems, please visit: https://assets.lawrenceks.org/transit/2025Poems.pdf

Poem selection was led by poet and professor, Megan Kaminski.

“These poems capture the everyday moments of beauty and wonder that sometimes go without notice as we travel from one place to another in our busy lives,” said Kaminski. “I am excited that they will keep transit riders company and inspire both connection with and appreciation of the richness of our particular place and the many people who inhabit it.”

Inspired to ride and don’t know where to start? Try our free Travel Training program! Email us to sign up: info@lawrencetransit.org

To get help planning a trip on the bus or for more information, visit www.lawrencetransit.org or call (785) 864-4644. Find Lawrence Transit on Facebook: @LawrenceTransit.

Group photo, from left to right: Megan Kaminski, Jim McCrary, Emily Rems, Alejandro Sabillón, Grace Townley-Lott (standing in for her mother, Wyatt Townley), ZOya Nebesniak. (Not pictured: Miguel A. Castro.)

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