Power of Poetry After September 11, 2001

In the weeks since the terrorist attacks, people have been consoling themselves - and one another - with poetry in an almost unprecedented way. Almost immediately after the event, improvised memorials often conceived around poems sprang up all over the city, in store windows, at bus stops, in Washington Square Park, Brooklyn Heights and elsewhere. And poems flew through cyberspace across the country in e-mails from friend to friend.

- Dinitia Smith. "The Eerily Intimate Power of Poetry to Console." New York Times 1 October 2001.