Great Regulars: The signs of the coming apocalypse are many,

but none are starker than this Web headline in the April issue of O: The Oprah Magazine: "Spring Fashion Modeled by Rising Young Poets." Yes. Spring fashion. Modeled. By rising young poets. There follows a photomontage of attractive younger women--some of whom are rising poets mostly in the "I get up in the morning" sense, but all of whom certainly look poetic--in outfits costing from $472 to $5,003. This is all part of O's special issue celebrating National Poetry Month, edited by the noted verse aficionado Maria Shriver and including interviews with "all-star readers" like Bono, Ashton Kutcher, the gossip columnist Liz Smith and someone named James Franco, who is apparently an actor.

from David Orr: The New York Times: Oprah Magazine's Adventures in Poetry

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