that the fridge, strictly speaking, was not invented in Sweden," Paul Muldoon, the magazine's current poetry editor, said, "then here we have one piece of information. If by the line 'the Swedes invented the fridge' you mean that storage of spoilable food in a cold climate might be said as invented in the frigid climate of Sweden, then that's also fine. It is and is not a fact.""The fact-checkers are very diligent," Mr. Robbins told The Observer. "They don't make a distinction between the poetic and the actual. They don't allow for, at least in theory, the dimension of fictionality that a poem can cultivate." When your verse arrives at 4 Times Square, in other words, your poetic license is revoked.
from The New York Observer: Whose Line Is It, Anyway?
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