In accordance with the Residential College's devotion to poetry, The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour will stop tonight at 7 p.m. in East Quadrangle's Residential College Auditorium, one the bus's 50 stops in as many days. The Rolling Stones don't even tour this hard.

No, this is not the bus your parents wish they were on - you know, the one with Ken Keasey, fresh batches of LSD and an "NYC or Bust" manifesto.

Simply put, this tour is about poetry.

Founded in 2005 and based in Seattle, Wave Books' website describes its mission as "dedicated to publishing the best in American poetry by new and established authors."

The tour's website, www.poetrybus.com, hosts an ongoing blog. Visitors can enjoy pictures of the contributing poets in various locations along with anecdotes and general observations.

Although the tour hosts several poets published under the Wave Books banner, its goal is not solely to promote its own - most of the tour's poets are not with Wave Books. Tonight's readers include the RC's own Ken Mikolowski, the heart and soul behind the recently rejuvenated Alternative Press.

When speaking to The Believer, a literary magazine, Wave Books's editor and tour organizer Joshua Beckman said, "The bus tour is attempting to create an environment in which poets from over a huge geographical area have meaningful engagement - not only through reading and listening, but collaborating."

Admission is free. Unabashedly proclaimed on the website as "the biggest literary event of 2006 and the most ambitious poetry tour ever attempted," it isn't possible to understate this event's importance.

The Wave Books Poetry Bus
Tonight at 7 p.m.
Free
At East Quadrangle