Each year the MTA and the Poetry Society select poems and post them on New York City's subways and buses.

The following poems appeared in the series in 2006:

• "Utterance" by W.S. Merwin
• From Chanson d’Automne by Paul Verlaine
• "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
• "The Blue Boat" by Kathleen Jamie
• From Othello (Act III, Scene iii, 167-182) by William Shakespeare
• Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing by Jelaluddin Rumi

The following poems appeared in the series in 2005:

• From Le Monocle de Mon Oncle by Wallace Stevens (excerpt)
• "Communication" by Alicia Partnoy
• From Macbeth Act V, scene v by William Shakespeare (excerpt)
• "Return" by Robert Creeley
• "A Broken Appointment" by Thomas Hardy
• "Old Men" by Ogden Nash

The following poems appeared in the series in 2004:

• "Parlour-Piece" by Ted Hughes
• "A Leaf" by Bronislaw Maj
• "The Second Coming" by William Butlear Yeats (excerpt)
• "A Bouquet" by Bei Dao (excerpt)
• "Proverbs and Songs" by Antonio Machado
• "Fireflies in the Garden" by Robert Frost
• "Wild Orchids" by Katha Pollitt
• "A Big Clown-Face-Shaped Cloud" by Kenneth Koch

The following poems appeared in the series in 2003.

• "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold (excerpt)
• "A Coat" by William Butler Yeats
• "My Father" by Yehuda Amichai
• "Tongue of Wood" by Stephen Crane
• Poetry In Motion 10th Anniversary Contest Winners
  • "Change" by Janet Ward
  • "Two Towers" by Colm MacNiallais
  • "Let Me Stop" by Jeremy Davis