About 13,000 buses in cities from New York to San Francisco are going to be carrying poetry and photography through the streets by way of a new series of "Streetfare" posters.

The series, which will be on the road through next April, features poetry by Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams.The photographs are by Dorothea Lange, chosen from works in a current traveling exhibition, "Dorothea Lange: American Photographs."

"Streetfare Journal," which has grown into one of the nation's largest public-art projects, now operates in 16 cities and reaches an audience of 10 million bus riders daily.

The nonprofit series was originated by Transportation Displays Inc, a New York-based media network, in 1984. In 1987, it was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; other funding has come from the Lannan Foundation and Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.

Participating cities are Atlanta, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Fort Worth, Texas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Oakland, Calif., Philadelphia, Phoenix, Reno, Nev., Sacramento, Calif., San Francisco, San Jose-Santa Clara County, Calif., Santa Cruz, Calif., and Washington.

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