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Poetry in Times of Terror
Remaining structure of World Trade Center after collapse following terrorist attack. (AP) Email to friend
My brother sent me a note this week, a piece of writing from his colleague, Joel Rogers at the University of Wisconsin. Joel wrote that "Often, just after a clash of spectacular violence, there is a moment in which there's a collective intake of breath; and quiet interrupts the noise." As journalists we insist on scribbling in all the blank places. The very nature of radio is that our medium recoils from silence... but it is in such silence that the gusts of anxiety are stilled, the ripples of unrest a calmed and genuine reflection is possible.
Our poets are the ones who cherish the pause, the quiet that interrupts the noise. Up next - a conversation with poets, including Stanley Kunitz, the Poet Laureate of the United States, and a look back at the ten days since the world shook
