A blend of visual and literary art, Moving Poems connects art and poetry to campus via a new vehicle of creative expression, the utility cart. The project, a collaboration between the Office of Public Art and Creative Writing Department, enhances the environment of the 50,000-student university, with short, thoughtful poems, urban haiku or aphorisms. The stark white sides of the carts provided a blank page to students in the Masters program of creative writing, and ASU professor and poet Alberto Rios reached students through a Call to Poets. For Rios, the exercise helped students learn the true essence of poetry by distilling their images to a single sentence or thought. Carts and poets are both in the process of moving people, states Rios. Some of the winning entries include: "You have a call. It's you," “Take a long cut” and “Like an old farmer, language drives us through the fields”. Thinking Caps, a local design firm, donated their services to create bright green, blue, yellow and pink backgrounds for the pithy phrases and photographs of the talented poets. Students, faculty, staff and visitors make an instant connection between the words and the poet. The carts move slowly throughout the campus, animating our thoughts and environment.