News at Eleven (Back Page): Two hundred years of words,

I will need to describe the destruction my eyes have seen.

Those are the words Jean-Dany Joachim used to describe a visit to his home country of Haiti after the quake, which looked, as he put it, like a country "with its guts open." Joachim, the "poet populist" of Cambridge, Massachusetts, used his poetic talents to help digest the emotion flooding through him. Here's an excerpt from his poem, "To Hear And To See Are Two Different Things, That's True."

from The Huffington Post: Poetry Helps Some Cope With An Earthquake's Aftermath

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