Taking it to the streets … sonnet-style.

[CBC News] Beginning Monday, poets in cities from Victoria to St. John’s, Nfld., will visit everyday places – streetcars, parks, hair salons and gas stations – to recite their poetry aloud and hand out free volumes of verse.

“If I show up in a service station, I’ll approach a vehicle, and whoever happens to be in it is going to be the target for the moment,” Glen Sorestad, Saskatchewan’s poet laureate, told CBC News.

The campaign is the brainchild of B.C. poet Wendy Morton, who earned the title of WestJet’s “poet of the skies” when, in exchange for free passage on the Calgary-based airline, she offered to read or compose poems in-flight for other passengers.

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