Queens Poetry Project Uses The Subway Map As Its Platform

QUEENS, NY — A poetry project celebrating the strength, beauty and resilience of Queens is bringing the borough's subway map to life.

Queensbound, a poetry project founded by the writer KC Trommer in 2018, has launched an interactive subway map where each station is embedded with a poem.

The new map features 33 poems, combining pieces from the project's inaugural edition with poems added this year.

New works include "Ode to the F," a poem by Queens College professor Kimiko Hahn that uses the Forest Hills-71st Avenue subway station as a launching point.

The project's goal is "to have a poem about each neighborhood in the borough, about 120 stops in all, to be an archive and celebration of Queens voices," according to a news release.

To read all the poems, visit queensbound.com.