Listen to her words

"If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. -- and gives two breathtaking performances of "B" and "Hiroshima."

Poetry as a WMD

Via Bryan of Why Now? and Pugnacious Pinoy, a story of a prof recycling a box of old poetry papers.... and getting the police involved.

It illustrates how a society can become saturated in fear and can change into a fascist one in a hurry. Start with fear of others.