Great Regulars: Turns out Jo [McSweeney] knew more

than she believed she knew, at least as far as Tim Appelo, in an article he crafted for the online edition of the American Poetry Foundation, "Desire to Burn," views it, the self-same one wherein he muses upon the notion that [Kurt] Cobain may well have died "because he misread a poem."

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: "Here we are now, entertain us"

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[by Lenore Langs]

Song for the Third Millennium

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: In celebration of planetary poetry month 15

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[by Irving Layton]

Creation

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: In celebration of planetary poetry month 16

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Poetry by itself may not change the world; poets are powerless to prevent the massacres in Darfur, end child abuse or cure multiple sclerosis. But poetry can and does mightily affect individual consciences, individual perceptions, individual memories. Collectively, who knows what sort of butterfly effect that has? Indeed, in refutation of Auden, I'd argue that the very fact of that poem alone, that it is read, studied and anthologised, that being moved, he moves others, is itself sufficient refutation. [--Martin Levin]

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: In celebration of planetary poetry month 17

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[by rob mclennan]

1. is for ______

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: In celebration of planetary poetry month 18

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