Moritz, Toronto's new poet laureate, has among other things written about the frustration of waiting for the bus in a storm. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity.” It is hard to read those words and believe the man had never attended a Toronto city council meeting. Article Continued BelowIt seems especially resonant now, as the cruelty of March brings with it Toronto city council’s budget meeting Thursday. “There is no city that does not dream from its foundations,” Toronto’s outgoing poet laureate Anne Michaels wrote in a 1999 poem about the city. Moritz appointed as the city’s new poet laureate on Wednesday, replacing Michaels in the post and following predecessors George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco and Dennis Lee.

Source: thestar March 06, 2019 21:56 UTC