News at Eleven: Continuing to put forth Auden's poem,

regardless of its merits, neglects the vital response of contemporary poets to this tragedy.

But we cannot be silent. So between the Scylla of cliché and the Charybdis of exploitation, poetry moves. Martín Espada's "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100," for example, offers a globalist ode to the workers on the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center who perished in the attacks. By focusing on people often unnoticed, sometimes undocumented, and occasionally disparaged, Espada celebrates the diverse gathering of humanity that the American project has enabled, and that the attacks threatened to separate, in the rhetoric of security and the ideology of fear.

from The Huffington Post: The Poetry Of 9/11 And Its Aftermath
or Poetry Foundation: Beyond Grief and Grievance

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