MLHS Makes Art and Poetry Come Alive on Regional Transit

Mira Loma has teamed up with the Sacramento Poetry Center, and will be the first high school in the area to participate in the Poetry on Board project.    This is a visionary program started by the SPC in 2010, and modeled after similar programs in larger cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

Rather than reading advertising inside an RT bus, the Poets on Board program places placards with the works of local poets and artists on buses.  Under the guidance of teachers Chris Drew, Keith Carmona, and Allison Stiles, students participated in a poetry competition.  The winner, Sarah Sheven, was selected in a contest, and then her poem was used as inspiration for an art competion, in which Jane Simeon prevailed.  The student work will represent Mira Loma on 250 RT buses across the region to highlight the importance of arts programs in schools.

Poet Laureate Bob Stanley and Richard Hansen of Poems-for-all lent their expertise to the project.

We congratulate all of Mira Loma students who were involved in the project, and look forward to seeing their work on Regional Transit buses.